Freezing lasagna - baked or unbaked?

[Silent1CB]

Its been so long that I can't remember? I'm going to assemble tomorrow hopefully. Do I bake it before freezing it? My recipe has egg in the ricotta cheese if that matters.

I've frozen single portions of baked lasagna lots of times, but you know how it gets when you reheat it.

I thought freezing it unbaked, and just baking it on Christmas would have it turn out nicer.

 

[live4christp1]

The recipes I've seen say freeze after assembly.
They also say if taking straight from freezer to oven add 20 minutes to the cooking time.


I made two huge pans of lasagna a few weeks ago for a family dinner and had a pretty good amount of the ricotta/mozerella cheese mixture left over. I put it in a container and put it in the freezer. Have never done that before so I'm not sure if it's going to be usable or not.

 

[Pakey]

I cannot even boil water but my Italian mother gives us trays of uncooked frozen lasagne.

 

[sbell111]

Although we do frequently freeze our leftover lasagne and I have no gripes with the reheated product, if you are talking about preparing an entire lasagna ahead of time, freeze before it's cooked.

 

[scrapquitler]

just stick it in the freezer without cooking it.

 

[dislaney]

Freeze before baking.

 

[wdwfan16]

I do both. I prefer to freeze after baking. I let cool and then cut it in pieces. I freeze each piece individually. That way we can pull the amount we for a dinner. Defrost, remove the plastic wrap (do hot heat in the plastic wrap) and microwave.

 

[DMickey28]

I freeze, unbaked.

Depending on how big it is you will need to defrost it before you bake it. A smallish one, for a family of 2 or 4 will be fine to bake frozen but a bigger one in one of those HUGE lasagna pans needs to be defrosted in the fridge first. I have ruined one two many baking it frozen .... the outside gets wayyyy over cooked and the inside is still nearly frozen.

 

[Silent1CB]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Denine]

unbaked