Date Night in New Orleans
| Description | The food of New Orleans echoes the city’s historically diverse population with influence from French, African, Spanish, Native American, Indian and Caribbean cuisine. Here we’ve got ‘blackened’ chicken served with cornbread and corn salad. ‘Blackening’ is a modern Cajun technique of caramelising fish or meat in spices and butter to make a delicious crust. For the main course there's jambalaya, which originated in Louisiana during Spanish rule as a local version of paella. Ingredients from the Caribbean and Latin America crept into the dish, and the smoky, spicy modern jambalaya was born. To cool everything off, for dessert there's ice cream studded with one of the most popular sweets in Louisiana - pecan praline! |
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| Spices Included | Jambalaya Spices: white pepper, red bell pepper, smoked paprika, bay, black pepper, thyme, savory, paprika, basil, cayenne chilli, parsley, salt, CELERY, onion, garlic |
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Product Rating (14):
We split the box and made 2 dinners rather than one 3 course meal. The portions are so generous the starter easily made a main course. The blackened chicken was seriously delicious, and the pecan praline ice cream was to die for.
I really like this date night meal all the elements came together and it was very filling. The spices were sensational. My favourite part was the cornbread and my friend’s favourite part was the blackened chicken overall 10 out of 10..
Thank you for your lovely feedback, Holly - we're so pleased to hear how much you both enjoyed this meal, and we hope you had a fun time cooking and eating it together!
The gift that started it all! I had never heard of The Spicery until my mum bought us a subscription last Christmas. Here we are using our final meal kit and it didn't disappoint! Fantastic date night New Orleans style, my personal favourite was the cornbread, my wife thought the jambalaya stole the show. Fantastic kit, lots to it but each bit simple to make and delicious! Thank you again Spicery
The gift that keeps on giving! It's great to hear that you both enjoyed this delicious Date Night dish, happy spicing!
Another great date night box. Used plant based alternative instead of chicken which worked great for a vegan version. Jambalaya had a great kick. Corn bread was sweet and delicious. Finished the ice cream over a few nights as very sweet but also tasted great.
Yum, this all looks delicious! Great job using a plant-based alternative to make this dish vegan, we're glad to hear that it worked a treat!
The flavours are fantastic and the meal comes together well as a real ensemble. But as with most of these meals the recipe instructions could be a lot clearer and more novice friendly - details on timings, techniques and things that could be prepared in advance need to be improved.
We're so pleased to hear how much you enjoyed this dish, Matt, and thanks for your feedback too - we're always looking at ways to improve so this is really helpful!
This was very tasty indeed. Everything tasted lovely and was easy to cook. Found chopping the ice cream a really messy affair and might have been better to just just mix it all up in a slightly bigger tub. I messed up and put the cornbread mix in the salad so used the make this again recommendations to add spices to the cornbread and it worked very well.
We're so happy to hear how much you enjoyed this one, and great work using the 'Make it Again' section to create an impromptu spice mix - we're glad it all worked out!
Delicious! We had a true N'Orleans night with Hurricanes, zydeco and watching The Big Easy! Husband raved about the hot sauce! And pecan praline ice cream was the perfect dessert!
What a lovely date night, it sounds like you truly transported yourselves to New Orleans for the evening! We're so happy to hear that this box went down a treat!
This kit was fantastic, and the blackened chicken with corn salad and hot sauce was amazing - soooo tasty!!!
We're so happy to hear how much you enjoyed your taste of New Orleans - it looks delicious!
Fantastic! Interesting and fun to make. Really nice combination of dishes -- plenty of light, punchy heat. Love the idea of starting with blackened chicken for a protein hit, and then going onto jambalaya that is simultaneously carby (rice) but delicate (prawns). Hot sauce was amazing, and the ice cream kept us going for a week. Loved it.
We're so happy to hear how much you enjoyed this dish, and well done for managing to make the ice cream last all week!
Delicious and super easy. The hot sauce is hot!!!
This looks like a really delicious spread, nice work! We're loving those gorgeous patterned bowls too. It's great to hear how much you enjoyed your taste of New Orleans!
A great meal, really loved every element but the blackened chicken and pecan praline ice cream were particularly amazing.
Looks like a perfect date night - great job! We're so happy to hear how much you loved your taste of New Orleans. That pecan praline ice cream looks especially delicious!
This was a really fantastic kit! So tasty and easy, we've ordered it again to impress friends! The 3 course menu is a lot of food, we split the starter and main into 2 meals. The icecream was enough for a few afters. Thank you Spicery, this was super delicious!!!
It's great to hear how much you enjoyed this dish, and that there was enough left over to enjoy it all over again! Definitely a great meal to impress dinner guests when we can have people round again!
Fab meal really enjoyed making and tasting this one
We're so glad to hear how much you enjoyed both making and eating this dish - happy spicing!
Really impressed with this spice box. Wasn't expecting much from the blackened chicken but it was delicious and really simple to make. The jambalaya had nice subtle flavours. And I ended up eating the pecan praline by itself before it went anywhere near any ice cream! 5* box.
It's great to hear how much you loved this box, and we totally don't blame you for tucking into the pecan praline straight away!
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Thanks for your kind review, we're so pleased to hear how much you loved the delicious Cajun flavours in this Date Night box! Yes, the portion sizes are very generous... but that just means you get to enjoy it twice! Happy spicing!