Lean Cuisine Lemon Chicken
(lightly breaded chicken breast with rib meat in lemon glaze with brown rice risotto)
(the brown rice risotto has…RED PEPPER CHUNKS!)
Directions: Cook on HIGH for 4:30 - 5:30. Let stand in microwave for 1-2 minutes.
Can you tell Lean Cuisine has been on sale?
This dish is part of the Spa Cuisine collection, and at 300 calories, its quite a lunch. It was the highest calorie lunch I had in the freezer, and since I’m going out to eat tomorrow night, I figured I’d save the lower cal meal for tomorrow. If it doesn’t fill me, I’ll nosh on 25 calories worth of grape tomatoes.
There are two VERY LIGHTLY breaded chicken cutlets in this meal. Each one is a little more than 1/2 cm thin and the size of the palm of my hand. I suppose if you smashed them together, you’d have one serving of chicken. There is a faint sweet lemony taste to the sauce, which was goopy and sweet enough that I may have been tempted to lick it out of the corners of the tray.
I cooked this meal for 4:30 and it’s HOT even after standing in the microwave. Thank goodness for the diet-iced-tea-in-beer glass. The rice (which the box brags is 100% whole grain) is more of a beige than brown but it - and the broccoli - still has a good bite. The red pepper chunks, as always, bring color but no flavor. Some of the broccoli was more yellow/brown than green.
After the entire meal (and I did lick every grain of rice and every ounce of sauce out of the tray when you weren’t looking) and the entire glass of iced tea, I’m at the point where I’m not hungry, but I’m not completely full. I guess the word is “satisfied.”
I’ll bring the tomatoes back to work with me for an afternoon snack.
Not sure if I’d get this again, as it didn’t WOW me enough to justify a 300 calorie expenditure.
9g fat 300 cal, 5 POINTS
Add comment May 14th, 2008