Our Top 18 Freezer-Friendly Dishes We Make for Yom Tov

And this challah too! This is the best wholesome challah out there. We actually reach for it over the white challah. Update: You don’t need to use the 5 grain flour. We haven’t seen it available lately. Most whole wheat/whole grain flours work just fine.

Make in bulk and freeze! Yes, you can cross this off now! Use as a dip for a Shabbos meal or use as a base for this oven rice (you can skip the tomatoes if you want to make it more family-friendly) for an easy 2-minute prep side dish.

A great dessert that takes a few minutes to assemble and then just serve straight from the freezer. No freezer room? Or tight on time? Freeze the crumbs in a bag. Crush the cookies and freeze. Then just assemble before serving.

For dessert, she will have plenty of fruit coulis in the freezer.

Leah makes a bunch of these to put away for Succos, and she’ll add in a couple of the apple version too for Rosh Hashanah.

Easy and so good. Wrap it up tightly and stick it in your freezer and your dessert is ready to please both kids and adults.

Fish might be the one thing you can’t make ahead, but freezing the sauce for this maple salmon makes it effortless. Thaw, dump, bake.

She’s also stocking up the freezer with fancy rice (do you another side dish that freezes this well?)

Oh, wait. Renee still has more things on her “get into the freezer” list. Like stuffed cabbage. Essential.

Renee is going to make and freeze the beef topping for this gnocchi, then simply boil the gnocchi fresh.

This freezes as is. Fully bake, covering tightly. Freeze.  You can either thaw and rewarm or just warm directly from freezer.

This freezes beautifully, even though it has potatoes! Remove from freezer in the morning (i.e. of an erev Yom Tov) or night before (if it’s for a day meal) to let thaw. If you’ve done this, you can simply pop it into the oven (whatever the temp) about an hour before serving.

Esti is going to get some of these hickory roasts into the freezer.

From Dinner Done, Leah will for sure be making lots of oven smoked brisket for Yom Tov. The Pesach version (same technique, different ingredients) is available here on BCP.

Now it’s time for my freezer picks. This version is one of my family’s top most requested–beer just does the trick of getting them to that amazingly tender point. They also like that it’s not super barbecue-saucey sweet.  The Shiitake Ribs are another one that’s just as popular and up there on the list.

Keep this crunch in the freezer and a great salad comes together quickly.

If you want to get a chicken into the freezer, this one will work.