Blue Apron Review Series – Tandoori Style Chicken

This month we are reviewing the meal order service Blue Apron! Each week we’re going to review a new recipe, and in the last installment we’ll look at the service as a whole. Each week we’ll score on three key points: Quality of Ingredients, Ease of Instructions, and Taste. Each will have a five-point scale: 1-Poor, 2-Could be Better, 3-Okay, 4-Good, and 5-Excellent.

The first recipe I tried was the Tandoori-Style Roasted Chicken. Each meal comes with all of the ingredients pre-packaged. It also comes with a recipe card and nutritional information. This was nice to have, especially if you like the recipe and want to make it again.

Recipe Card and Ingredients

First up is Quality of Ingredients. The ingredients for this meal were fairly simple, with the more complicated flavors already combined in a tomato chutney. I only had a problem with the freshness of two pieces of produce, the Cabbage and the Poblano Pepper. They weren’t unusable, but the cabbage started to spot and half of the pepper was very soft (almost mushy). For the cabbage I just had to peel a few extra layers off. With the poblano I discarded the top, and as I had a green bell pepper on hand, I subbed in a little of that.

The Ease of Instructions were good. Although thorough, they were complex for only having seven ingredients. Each needed to be prepared separately and cooking times varied between the Farro, Vegetables and Chicken. Overall, if you read the whole card in advance (maybe twice) there shouldn’t be any issues.

This recipe takes home the gold on flavor. The yogurt-tomato chutney covered chicken was very flavorful, with a good combination of acid, sourness and spice. The Farro/Vegetable mixture was simple, yet had a nice complex flavor from roasting the cabbage and pepper.

Tandoori-Style Roasted Chicken
  • Quality of Ingredients
  • Ease of Instructions
  • Taste
4.2
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