Freezing Lasagna - Fort Stewart,GA

When I make lazagna - I make 3 of them. I use the no boil noodles and assemble the lazagna. I then pop one of them in the oven for dinner that night. For the other two, instead of popping them in the oven - I wrap them up tightly with saran wrap and put them in the freezer. Then I have two easy dinners already made in the freezer. I then pull them out the day before I want to make them and put in fridge to thaw. It takes 11/2 hours to bake then - I start out having the lazagna covered with foil at 350 for an hour. About a 1/2 hour before done I remove foil and move oven up to 400ish to brown up the top of lazagna. My family can't tell the difference between the frozen and freshly made. Good luck.

I would bake it first. I do not use the no-boil noodles, but I do not boil my noodles. As long as I have enough sauce layered on the noodles the regular noodles cook while the lasagna bakes.

I usually use the boiled noodles, cook it, let it cool and then freeze in single serving squares so we only use what we need when reheating.

I don't see why there would be a huge difference if you cooked it first then froze it.

We love Italian food and I often have homemade stuffed manicotti, stuffed shells and lasagna rollups and never had issues with freezing the meals, including my homemade marinara.

Good luck and congratulations on the baby!

I'm making two lasagna's this weekend, one to eat, and one to freeze for when baby comes! I plan on freezing it uncooked. I cannot think of any reasons why you need to cook it first. I make homemade pasta all the time and cook it up out of the freezer and it turns out fine, so I don't see why lasagna noodles would be any different.

I want to freeze one raw so that it can then be refrozen into single servings after being cooked up. I'm a vegetarian in a house of meateaters, so I eat a lot of lasagna when they are eating heavily meatbased meals.

Yep you can freeze without cooking.

That's a good question. It seems like the no-boil noodles would absorb the liquid during the baking process (instead of the boiling process). You might should bake the lasagna before freezing??