REVIEW – Day-Lee Foods Crazy Cuizine Chicken
By valmg on Jan 21, 2012 with Comments 4
It’s a pretty safe bet that you can almost always find some quick and easy to prepare foods in my freezer. Recently I was offered the opportunity to try something new – Crazy Cuizine.
ABOUT CRAZY CUIZINE
Crazy Cuizine, a brand of 30-year Asian cuisine leader Day-Lee Foods, is enticing American taste buds with its delectable array of authentic and easy-to-prepare gourmet dishes.
Fully cooked (ready to heat and serve), high in protein, and free of preservatives, trans-fat and MSG, Crazy Cuizine’s meat dishes are ideal for serving with rice or your favorite side dish. The line includes:
• Mandarin Orange Chicken – Featuring lightly-battered, sliced chicken breast in a delicately-sweet Mandarin orange sauce.
• Teriyaki Chicken – A timeless family favorite featuring roasted and grilled white meat chicken in a mouth-watering Day-Lee Foods’ original teriyaki sauce.
Although Crazy Cuizine’s all-natural, sliced white meat chicken and beef are cooked with authentic flavors from the Far East, the ingredients are U.S. sourced and the dishes are made at the company’s state-of-the-art facility in Southern California, which has received four consecutive “Gold” standard awards for food safety and quality practices by Silliker.
MY THOUGHTS
I received samples of Crazy Cuizine Mandarin Orange Chicken and Teriyaki Chicken. Crazy Cuizine chicken is super easy to make.
The first one we tried was the Mandarin Orange chicken.
First you cook it. I did it in the oven.
Then you add the sauce (which you also heat.)
This is the Mandarin Chicken over white rice. The chicken is very tender. The sauce was good, not really as fruity as I expected but very good all the same. I would have liked a bit more sauce, for the rice.
The second time around we tried the Teriyaki Chicken. I used the microwave for this one.
The sauce packet can be heated in the microwave. This is what it looks like when you’re adding the sauce.
Now this one had enough sauce that it covered the white rice I made as a side.
The taste was quite authentic, very much like some of the Chinese dishes I’ve had in restaurants over the years. Again, the chicken was tender and the sauce tasty.
Hubby and I liked both varieties but both of us favored the Teriyaki. These are great items to keep in the freezer for those busy nights when you want to serve something fast and tasty that isn’t a sandwich. Made with a side dish of your own there is enough to feed a family of 3-4.
Crazy Cuizine products are available in the frozen aisle at select Costco locations and BJ’s Wholesale Clubs across the country as well as at Albertsons, Ralphs, Food for Less, Raley’s, SaveMart and Lucky Supermarkets throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. Products retail for an SRP of $8.99.
The Crazy Cuizine line of products also includes beef, other varieties of chicken, and Potstickers. This year, Chinese New Year falls on January 23, 2012. Why not grab a couple Crazy Cuizine products and create your own Chinese New Years buffet!
MORE INFO
The product(s) featured in this review was provided free of cost to me for the sole purpose of product testing and review. This post has not been monetarily compensated and is based on the views and opinions of my family and/or self. Please note that the opinions reflected in this post have not been influenced by the sponsor in any way.
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How about gluten content?
I have never heard of Crazy Cuizine. Is this just back East?
where to purchase in Las Vegas Nevada?
Their website says Crazy Cuizine products are available at select Costco locations and BJ’s Wholesale Clubs across the country as well as at Albertsons, Ralphs, Food for Less, Raley’s, SaveMart and Lucky Supermarkets throughout California and the Pacific Northwest.