Home Cooked Burger Crumbles
Precook meat or veggie crumbles to keep in the freezer for easy meals on a busy day!
Ingredients
- 1-2 pounds of your choice of any ground meat or tofu
Instructions
- Heat a frying pan over medium heat.
- Take your meat or tofu and crumble it, a bit at a time, into the pan, stirring between additions.
- Once it is all in, stir periodically. Allow any moisture to cook out.
- Once any moisture is cooked out, and any fat is rendered (both will vary by product) alternate letting the crumbles sit to brown and stirring, scraping the pan, to get all the browned bits up.
- Once it has browned a little (tofu will just show some signs of a slight golden cast) and it is all cooked through, removed from, drain fat if necessary, and let cool.
- Package and freeze.
Notes
Use as needed in recipes for chili, spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce, or anywhere you would normally used browned meat or veggie crumbles. Most such foods are cooked in a flavorful sauce or other seasoning - I particularly recommend that for poultry or veggie crumbles.