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Cooked food
The length of time you can store cooked dishes reduces if you use bacon or smoked ham to season dishes.
Put them directly on the hob or in the oven without defrosting them.
Vegetables
We recommend that you blanch the vegetables with steam so that they do not lose their vitamins and
mineral salts in the cooking water. You therefore do not need to wait until they are dry before freezing
them, just until they cool down.
In general, vegetables are better if they are cooked directly, without being frozen. Reduce the cooking
time, taking into account the blanching time before freezing.
Food freezing guide
EN
Product
Valid for
Preparatory
cooking
Sauce with meat juices
3 months
half-cooked
Tomato sauce
just-cooked
Minestrone with vegetables
2 months
no pasta
Lasagne
4 months
half-cooked
Roasts
2 months
just-cooked
Calf’s leg
1 months
half-cooked
Meat in sauce
3 months
Stewed game
2 months
just-cooked
Boiled fish,grilled/baked fish
2 months
half-cooked
Sweet peppers,aubergines,courgettes stuffed with meat
Sautéed mushrooms with garlic and parsley,ratatouille
Steamed spinach
Pizza
6 months
just-cooked
Product
Valid for Preparation
Blanching time
Asparagus
12months Wash and remove the strings
2 minutes
Cabbage,cauliflower
6 months Clean an cut into pieces
2 minutes
(1)
Artichokes
12months
Remove the external leaves
6 minutes
(1)
Beans
Shell
3 minutes
Green beans
Wash and remove the ends
4 minutes
Mushrooms
Clean
2 minutes
(1)
Aubergines
Wash and slice
4 minutes
(2)
Sweet peppers (3)
Wash slice and remove the seeds
do not blanch
Peas,Tomatoes (3)
Shell and freeze immediately, laying them in
a single layer and then wrapping them
Parsley,basil
8 months
Wash
Spinach
12months
2 minutes
Mixed vegetables for
minestrone (céleri, carrots,
chard,leeks, etc.)
Wash, cut into pieces and divide up into
portions. Do not add potatoes terre: they go
black.
do not blanch
(1) Add a little vinegar or lemon juice to the cooking water (slightly acid water).
(2) Pickle in brine before cooking.
(3) During defrosting, these vegetables reduce to a mush because they contain enormous amounts of water.
We recommend that you defrost them only if you wish to eat them coked.
