I spotted an item I hadn’t seen at my local Trader Joe’s
before so I decided to pick it up. After
a few days, I opted to make the Trader
Joe’s Grilled Chicken Cacciatore into a lunch. Because I typically eat my homemade chicken
cacciatore with rice or pasta, I whipped up 1 ½ cups of Carba-nada pasta. While
my pasta was cooking, I heated the grilled chicken cacciatore in the microwave
per the directions on the back of the package.
After emptying the contents out of the cooking pouch, the
chicken is provided in a large breast.
Not a big deal to have to cut the chicken up because each container
houses 3 servings. After dishing up my
serving over my pasta, the true taste test happened. The sauce is decent – not the greatest
tasting sauce, but okay. It’s got
flavorful spices in it as well as a few vegetables such as peas, mushrooms and
onion. The chicken is where it got a
little weird for me. The chicken is
labeled as grilled but texture wise it didn’t have any textured char marks on
it meaning the chicken was rather soft.
I am a texture person when it comes to food and after a few pieces of
chicken I ended up giving the remainder of my chicken to my dog – but I did eat
the rest of the sauce with my pasta.
I am not saying this is horrible, it’s a passable meal, but
if you’re weirded out by textures of meats then this may very well be a skip
for you. I think if the chicken had
actual char marks on it which changed the outside texture of the meat, it would
be decent. If you like quick and easy
dinner/lunch ideas and are a fan of cacciatore then this would be something
worth picking up.
A serving – 1/3 of the package is 4 points plus. The entire meal pictured including the pasta
was 7 points plus.
QUESTION:
Have you ever tried the grilled chicken cacciatore from
Trader Joe’s?
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