Kashi Lemon Rosemary Chicken

August 29, 2006 | Reviewer: Nicole

Kashi Lemon Rosemary Chicken Price: $3.00 on sale, free from Kashi
Serving: 1 entree, 10 oz.
Calories: 330
Fat: 14%, 9g
Cholesterol: 5%, 15mg
Sodium: 27%, 640mg
Protein: 16g
Carbs: 15%, 45g
Fiber: 20%, 5g
Diet Exchanges: 3 carbs, 2 lean meats
Weight Watchers Points: 7 Points

Kashi says: Chicken marinated with lemon and rosemary, grilled then sliced. Served with baby Portobello mushrooms and sugar snap peas over our Kashi 7 Whole Grains Pilaf, and topped with lemon rosemary sauce.

Nicole says: Kashi 7 grain pilaf has a really lovely texture, especially for microwaved grains. Too bad this meal did not rock my world like the Kashi Southwest Chicken. There was too much sauce that was too light in flavor. Sure, it has a lot of hyphens, but the lemon-rosemary-white wine sauce was just not tasty enough to coat everything in the tray.

In the fungus counter, there are about 3 or 4 bites worth of mushrooms in this meal. I am not a mushroom lover, but I’m sure that if you are, you would dig this meal, because the included baby portobellos definitely tasted mushroomy, and the texture was not too soggy. While Abi has been disillusioned about the quality of sugar snap peas in meals, with Kashi the yummy peas were crisp and refreshing even after being nuked. The helping size was good, too - there must’ve been 8 or 10 pea pods.

The chicken was pretty good texture-wise, but going unaided by the sauce, it tasted bland. Sure there was a good portion, so I got to have 1 large piece of bland chicken, 4 medium pieces of blandness, and a few bits of meat. The peas and pilaf were definitely the highlights of the meal.

Kashi meals are filling, but they don’t produce the feeling you get after eating a high-sodium, higher-calorie microwavable meal like Banquet Salisbury steak in gravy with a mac and cheese side. That satisfied, greasy, I-feel-like-I-ate feeling. They leave you feeling satisfied but still light and floaty. I guess that’s what health food does.

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9 Responses to “Kashi Lemon Rosemary Chicken”

tg on August 30th, 2006

Do they really call it a “baby portobello”? cuz, like, that’s wrong, man:

“Once a brown crimini grows to about 4″ - 6″ in diameter, it is deemed to be a portobello.”

“baby portobello”, no such thing
Nicole on August 31st, 2006

I guess it sounds better to the consumer than “brown crimini.” And how often do you refer to veal as “baby cow” versus “calf”?
tg on August 31st, 2006

hey honey, my only reference to veal is “get that off my plate”
Nicole on August 31st, 2006

veal is evil but yummy
Abi on September 1st, 2006

You know what worries me? There are veal frozen meals out there! Seriously, Stouffer’s has a veal parmigiana. I’ve seen it at the Columbia Heights Safeway.
Nicole on September 1st, 2006

I’ve probably had a frozen veal parm at some point. I’ll try and get one to review in the near future.
connie on October 3rd, 2006

I really liked the Rosemary Cchicken!
frostine on December 10th, 2007

I love the other Kashi heat-and-eats, but thought this one tasted like Pledge.
Ashley on January 25th, 2008

The grains were definitly the highlight of this dish. While I thought this tasted alirght, the appearence was disturbing at best.