Freezing pastry

corblimey

I can't seem to find a straight answer to this online. I'm making a beef pot pie this weekend and plan on using pre-made puff pastry. Once cooked, can I safely freeze the portions, and more importantly heat them up later and they'll taste pretty much as good?

nice1franko

I make the filling and freeze it in bags. Then when I'm doing a few pies, defrost the filling and a roll of pastry and just make them up.

Is that what you mean or do you want to have them made up and then freeze them as pies?

corblimey

nice1franko wrote: »

I make the filling and freeze it in bags. Then when I'm doing a few pies, defrost the filling and a roll of pastry and just make them up.

Is that what you mean or do you want to have them made up and then freeze them as pies?

I have one large baking dish that makes about 6 servings, so ideally, I'd cook the whole lot, divvy it up and freeze 5 of them. I was thinking if this doesn't work, I'd need to get my hands on 6 smaller baking dishes (ie a ramekin, maybe?) and do it the way you suggest, but I'd really like to be able to just do 1 dish.

Prenderb

I would think so. Plenty of supermarkets sell ready meals or frozen meals with cooked pastry on, don't they?

olaola

I find that frozen pastry (homemade) seems to roll out really good. Defo do it, it's so handy and CHEAP!