For (southern) Chinese food, frozen food tends to be of the "requires a little cooking" type. You can make sticky rice variants like youfan or zhongzi, cook before freezing, and they will reheat fine in a steamer. I've never tried with a microwave but in theory it should be possible to microwave them as long as you have extra moisture in your microwave.
Regular recipes for jiaozi and wonton can be frozen right before the cook stage of the recipe. However that does mean you have to cook it once you take it out of the freezer.
Edit: steamed buns are actually pre-cooked before freezing! My bad. These need to be steamed though, I don't know if a microwave would work.
For Chinese soup noodle recipes, like beef noodle soup, you actually need to pre-make the soup base and meat, so I usually freeze these into single-serving portions anyway. You can pair with whatever starch you want (since cooking actual noodles takes time to boil + 4 mins).
Edit 2: when I say steamer, what I really mean is, my rice cooker that happens to steam things, which I find less scary to use than my microwave.
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Date: 2019-06-18 06:01 am (UTC)From:Regular recipes for jiaozi and wonton can be frozen right before the cook stage of the recipe. However that does mean you have to cook it once you take it out of the freezer.
Edit: steamed buns are actually pre-cooked before freezing! My bad. These need to be steamed though, I don't know if a microwave would work.
For Chinese soup noodle recipes, like beef noodle soup, you actually need to pre-make the soup base and meat, so I usually freeze these into single-serving portions anyway. You can pair with whatever starch you want (since cooking actual noodles takes time to boil + 4 mins).
Edit 2: when I say steamer, what I really mean is, my rice cooker that happens to steam things, which I find less scary to use than my microwave.