Freezing Rotel Tomatoes!

With the week I have had, I am super glad I had the fore-site to save my unused Rotel Tomatoes. I generally freeze my herbed butter this way. I guess I had never considered doing anything else. (Besides flavored ice-cubes which I do in the summer.)

I had left over Rotel and a clean ice-cube tray and I thought... "Why not?"

Now, I'm sure some of you are saying... why I've been doing that for years! But, I have not and that's why I was so pleasantly surprised when I started supper the other night. I wanted something easy and throw together. So one thing led to another and I ended up making Pan Fried Chicken Tacos. Yum!


Like a good lil-girl I was doing my mise en place. (French for: get your stuff together before you start so you are not running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.) In my desperate root through the pantry I discovered I had everything except Rotel. I had tomato sauce but I needed that for the Spanish Rice that goes with the meal so I couldn't use it for the chicken. I considered sending hubby to the store. (I do that quite often.) But hmmmmm.... wait! I ran to the freezer and pulled out the 'test' bag of Rotel Tomatoes. 


When I put them in the ice-cube tray, I measured the first one just to be sure. So far, with out fail everything I have frozen has equaled one FULL (or slightly rounded) tablespoon.  I didn't even spray the tray, I just spooned the left over Rotel into it. Covered it with saran wrap and put it into the freezer. A couple days later when I remembered it, I popped them out and put them in a labeled freezer bag. (Excuse my misspelling... heehee!)

I don't really measure-measure. I try to for this blog but for the life of me... I put a little of this and a little of that and it always turns out great! So here I was with my lil-cubes of Rotel and I wasn't sure how much to use. I started out with three and ended up using them all.

I just tossed them in and they melted, without any excess water, right into my chicken and was exactly what I wanted. Yay! I'm so glad I thought to do this. And I do hope you give it a try. I'm sure I can freeze way more stuff this way than I ever thought. What do you freeze in ice-cube trays? Leave me a note. I would love to give it a try! Until then....

Enjoy!
Kerri Downey