Semi-finished products are a great way to save valuable time and spend it on more enjoyable activities. However, store semi-finished products are unlikely to match the taste and useful qualities with domestic counterparts.

Even if only the best quality raw materials were used for the production of semi-finished products, as a result of non-observance of conditions of transportation and storage, useful properties can be lost, and taste qualities spoiled.

Frozen home-made semi-finished products

When you are making semi-finished products yourself, you control the quality of the products, and this fact guarantees their naturalness. Such semi-finished products can be safely served to children.

Various meat and fish semi-finished products (steaks, meatballs, cutlets, pancakes) are cooked in a traditional way. Then the finished products are frozen in the freezer, placed in a special container for freezing.

Home-made semi-finished fish products

You will need:

- 1 kg of minced fish

- 300 g of bread

- 2 eggs

- Onion, salt, pepper to taste

For the preparation of fish semi-finished products, it is advised to use a little bony fish. At first, you’ll need to separate fish from bones and wash it under cold water, then cut it into small pieces and process in a meat grinder. It’s advised to freeze the fish a little before slicing. To increase the looseness of the mass, you can add soaked bread. For viscosity, chicken eggs can be added. Spices, finely chopped onions are added to taste.

The resulting mass must be carefully kneaded manually, then form cutlets, meatballs from it and send them to the freezer to avoid the development of dangerous microorganisms.

Meat cutlets and burgers are cooked according to a similar recipe, replacing fish with various kinds of meat (pork, poultry, beef).

Other tasty and healthy semi-finished products

Many housewives prefer to freeze cabbage rolls, pancakes, cheese cakes, stuffed peppers, pizza basics, dumplings. In this case, it is very convenient that the process of their final preparation (heat processing) can be started without waiting for defrosting.

When cooking different types of semi-finished products at home do not forget to freeze them immediately.