Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken Review

The Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken packs some heat. This is one of the tastier Dinnertime selects frozen dinners from Lean Cuisine.

Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken Description

The Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken has some heat in the sauce, and it's not the temperature. With the first bite it is not noticeable. But the third bite, your tongue will enjoy some heat in the flavor. They use this term on Top Chef a lot, and I don't think I truly understood it until I tasted this frozen dinner. A perusal through the ingredients reveals that it could be the paprika in the sauce.

The sauce is mixed with sesame seeds and coats the breaded chicken and carrot slivers. There is enough sauce to coat the rice and broccoli florets as well.

The long-grained white rice is mixed with small pieces of yellow peppers and diced red peppers. The rice is on the bland side, and tastes better when mixed with the breaded chicken.

There is enough broccoli to give you a healthy serving, but so much broccoli that it overwhelms the other ingredients or flavors.

Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken Calories

The Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken is a Dinnertime Selects product, and is large enough to pass off as a dinner. It does pack a hefty 390 calories, which may be too hefty for a lunch when you are stuck behind a desk all day. Everyone's needs are different, just keep in mind this Lean Cuisine is not 200 calories likes some others.

There are nine grams of fat, which can partially be attributed to the breaded chicken. Lean Cuisine meals with breaded chicken seem to be the most popular in local grocery stores, based on how fast people seem to buy them. The breaded chicken is not a typical diet dish, but it does give you a feeling of satisfaction.

The breaded chicken and sesame seed sauce makes this dish a good alternative to fried chicken fingers from the local Chinese restaurant.

Drawbacks of The Lean Cuisine Orange Peel Chicken

There carbohydrate count of this frozen dinner entree is 63 grams. This is quite high, especially for anyone watching their carbohydrates or their sugars. I did notice that I was hungry about an hour and a half after eating this meal.