REVIEW: The City Kitchen Mexican Chipotle Chicken
As part of my ongoing apparent mission to eat my way through all the types of microwave meals in the world when we have no leftovers in the fridge for me to take to work, I tried the City Kitchen Mexican Chipotle Chicken meal for the first time today. I’ve not tried anything from The City Kitchen brand before, but they appealed to me because they are not your standard recipe choices. Gone are the days where the only ready meals available were lasagne and cottage pie!

It was a very decent size and certainly a filling lunch. I was pleasantly surprised to see that after rice, chicken was the largest proportion of ingredient, which did seem unusual and a sign of a quality meal. The rice was lightly spiced and had black beans running through, while the chicken in sauce was thick and unctuous and very lightly spiced, but slightly smokey in flavour.

Finally, I thought that the nutritional information on the packaging was unnecessarily cramped and confusing. It was all run together in a single small paragraph and the only quantities given were per 100g – despite the meal (e.g. one serving) weighing 385g! Not the sort of thing you can easily calculate in comparison to other products. Just tell us how much fat, how many calories and how much salt and sugar there is in the entire meal, since we’ll be eating the entire meal!! And if suppliers don’t want to put that information on because they’re worried it’ll look too high and put people off, maybe they should make their meals a bit healthier! Less sugar, more black beans in this instance – not rocket science, is it?
This was definitely one of the nicer ready meals I’ve had recently. If I see another one reduced to 60p in Tesco I shall grab it and put it away in the freezer until the next occasion arises where I have no leftovers to take in to work for my lunch. On no account will I be spending £3.50 to buy one, because quite frankly I think if you’d pay that for a microwave meal you need your head looking at. I can get some quite seriously good food made and served to me in restaurants/pubs in town for that and if I was looking to spend £3.50 a day on lunch, then leftovers wouldn’t be an issue….
7 out of 10 Extreme Points though – if you accept it’s a ready meal it’s a pretty good one.
Great, glad you enjoyed it. I haven't tried the Katsu Chicken…
I am so fussy when it comes to microwave meals.I bought the katsu chicken meal because i liked the look of it .. and it was so yummy well done first micro meal in a long time that i really enjoyed..I normal feed it to the waste bin .
i like these meals but not at full price! i will grab them when they are on the 'reduced to clear' section.
ready meals are hard ones to find a good one so 7 out of 10 is good might give the city kitchen range a go