So you’ve cooked yourself a nice juicy pot roast. It was delicious. You’ve gobbled the whole thing up, but are now left with a puddle of tasty juices too good to be thrown away. So don’t throw them away!
I simply take the leftover pot roast juices, pour them into old ice cube trays and freeze them up. Once frozen, I toss them into ziplock bags in the freezer. Then, when I need a little flavoring for some veggies or when a recipe calls for beef broth, I’m already one step ahead of the curve. I take as many cubes out as I need, toss the rest back in the freezer and go on my merry way.
Have you ever done this?
~Mavis
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Betty says
I not only save roast beef juices but any from other meats and poultry- have been doing this for years. I also save leftover vegetable water after cooking fresh veggies plain.
lynne says
I do the same! I keep it all in one 1/2 gallon container in the freezer, when it’s full, I make soup. 🙂
Kathy says
I do the same thing! Leftover vegetables that are seasoned makes the best soup ever and you get a much bigger variety by saving the leftovers in the freezer. I have a big plastic gallon (?) ice cream pail that I use. When it gets full, I just let it thaw enough for the big lump of frozen vegetables to slide out of the ice cream pail into a big soup kettle. I add canned tomatoes and/or broth, onions and potatoes and any seasonings I want and let it simmer and then make a pan of crispy cornbread to eat with it.
Cheyanne says
No! I have not but that’s a GREAT idea. Last Thanksgiving I simmered turkey bones with vegetable scraps for 3 days straight and then froze THAT in ice cubes (for super concentrated broth). I’m a vegetarian now but should probably do this with vegetable scraps anyway. 🙂
Delores says
Oh my goodness! Thank you! We live on septic system, so I hate to put that stuff down the drain, but never had any other use for it. Now I do. Thank you so much for this great idea!
Marcia says
Totally. I do that for pork in the crockpot too. Except I freeze in a big plastic tub, then peel off the pork fat. I separate the pork fat and the pork juice and use them both.
Gen says
I have been saving the juices from roasts and other meats for as long as I can remember, my parents always did – freezer space permitting. If there isn’t enough room in the freezer, I make sure that the juices are used in another meal during the week, or I add it to beef stock if I’m going to be canning beef stock within a couple days of making roast, etc…a delicious boost of flavor for sure! I’ll even add it as part of the liquid for cooking rice, if there isn’t enough juices for the amount of liquid required to cook the rice. YUM!
Patty says
I love doing this. Great to flavor bland white rice
Ellen in Clackamas says
What a fabulous idea! I cringe to think of all the lovely juices I have poured down the sink. So glad to learn new things
Nanci Fitschen says
Doesn’t anyone make gravy any more? That’s what I use the juices for.
Krista says
I do, I do!! Gravy is the best.
Ellen Baber says
Save juices from veggies to add to broth when making soup.. rich with vits and minerals…
Heather says
I always use my drippings(chicken/beef/pork) to make a gravy! Bread, Biscuits, Rolls, Cornbread, etc all get dipped into the gravy. It’s how my grandma did it, and how I do it! I don’t think I’ve ever had to throw away gravy.
Michelle says
I also put a small bit of water in my skillet after making bacon, heat and scrap with a wooden spoon till all the bits come off, and save in the freezer for soup. I got laughed at in home ec years ago for scraping batter off the beaters. I’m happy to see I’m not the only one!
Julia says
Yes, I save the juice. It makes the best base for vegetable soup or gravy. I use my ice cube trays to freeze broth as well has leftover pizza sauce or other red sauces too. Then when I just need a bit of flavoring I thaw what I need. When I make greens and ham hocks in the crock pot I use the juice to make split pea soup. Yum!!! Ok now I’m hungry!!!
Mavis says
I never thought of the pizza sauce thing. That’s genius!