Lean Cuisine Sesame Stir Fry with Chicken

4 Stars

( Nutrition Facts: 300 calories, 6 g fat, 41 g carbohydrates, 5 g fiber, 20 g protein)

Ah stir fry… as you may have read in the P.F. Chang’s entry Chinese food and I have a bit of a love/hate relationship. No matter where I go it seems like the food is just dripping with grease and sauce- which isn’t exactly my idea of appetizing. I mean who really wants that, really? honestly?

With all this in mine, this Lean Cuisine dish was absolutely perfect for me. The noodles and veggies definitely weren’t dripping in grease or sauce. In fact, there was just the right amount of sesame sauce to keep me happy. It coated the noodles and veggies but there wasn’t a plate full of it at the end.

The new ‘Twice the Veggies’ campaign that Lean Cuisine created the opportunity for my enjoyment of edamame, broccoli, and peppers, yummy. I have to admit there were a lot of veggies but I find it slightly depressing that there were twice as many in this dish as in other Lean Cuisine dishes… there wasn’t that many veggoes. So either the regular Lean Cuisine’s have hardly no veggies, or I got gypped on this box.

The chicken was typical Lean Cuisine chicken, as usual you just have to grin and bear it. Although I think I have discovered the secret to good chicken in a frozen entree. The chicken needs to stay whole, the second the chicken is split or sliced in any way moisture seeps in and mushy, mystery chicken ensues. Which is ultimately proubably why the dish received a four and not a five, well that and the veggie situ.

My absolute favorite part of the dish were the noodles, which according to Lean Cuisine are ‘ wheat vermicelli’ which in layman’s terms to me means ’skinny long wheat noodles’. Whatever, they are very yummy, and create great contrast with the crunchy veggies.

Here is what some other reviewers have said about the dish

• Heat.Eat.Review. gave the dish 3 1/2 stars out of 5. The reviewer, Nicole, has some interesting things to say about the ‘out of the shell’ edamame, and there are some nice tips from other eaters who have commented on the entry.

• I.Ate.A.Pie.net enjoyed the dish and gave it 5 stars, but offers caution towards the entree’s sodium content.

• The Diet Detective has marked this meal as well as the other Lean Cuisine’s with ‘Twice the Veggies’ as a “calorie bargain’.

So, overall I’d say the Lean Cuisine Sesame Stir Fry with Chicken was a yummy, filling, and delightful stir fry treat that kept even the most wary Chinese- eater happy: )