Is the chicken in Trader Joes fried rice cooked?

Q: Is Trader Joes kung pao chicken fully cooked?

Yes, Trader Joes Kung Pao Chicken is pre-cooked, you just have to heat and eat!

Q: How many servings are in Trader Joes chicken fried rice?

This chicken was a seriously good choice for this rice. Its amazing! One bag of this rice makes about three and a half servings.

Q: How many calories is Trader Joes chicken fried rice?

There are 230 calories in 1 1/3 cups (169 g) of Trader Joes Chicken Fried Rice.

Q: Is Trader Joes chicken tikka masala fully cooked?

Trader Joes Chicken Tikka Masala is pre-cooked and just requires a few minutes of heating to have a ready-to-eat dish.

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Is Trader Joe's kung pao chicken fully cooked?
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Is Trader Joe's chicken tikka masala fully cooked?

Sometimes, after a long, stressful day, there’s nothing better than going home and cooking up a simple yet tasty meal. That’s what brought us to Trader Joe’s Chicken Fried Rice.

Since it only takes about six minutes when cooked on the stovetop, we decided to go with that cooking method. There are microwave instructions as well, but we thought this would come out much better when cooked in a pan.

The rice comes out pretty much perfect. It has that scrumptious taste of the delicious fried rice you’d get at a Chinese restaurant. And it’s loaded with carrots, peas, and onions, like all good fried rice should be.

There’s a little bit of scrambled egg as well. Now, we certainly would have loved to see some bigger chunks of scrambled eggs, because what’s in here is diced up pretty small. (We did find one or two rather large chunks, but the rest was broken up into tiny, tiny pieces.) But we’re still glad it’s there, because no fried rice would be complete without some egg.

And there are the chunks of chicken. The chicken here is a seasoned dark meat, which means it’s loaded with flavor. This chicken was a seriously good choice for this rice. It’s amazing!

One bag of this rice makes about three and a half servings. One serving contains a mere 230 calories (30 from fat), but the sodium is a bit high at 710 mg. If you eat more than the suggested serving size, which is not hard to do, you’ll be adding to these numbers as well.

Trader Joe’s Chicken Fried rice is simple yet satisfying. This is one of those side dishes that’s hard to stop eating once you’ve started, because it’s so darn tasty.

Of course, fried rice is great when it’s paired with other items. We think this Chicken Fried Rice and Trader Joe’s Mandarin Orange Chicken are a match made in Heaven.

To learn more about the ingredients or nutrition for this Trader Joe’s fried rice, check out our package scan below.

Perhaps you are craving Chinese, but for some reason, you aren't going out or ordering in. This is a good, but not a great answer to not getting it at your local Chinese food establishment. Why isn't it great?

Well, the answer is simple: if it's chicken fried rice, I expect there to be chicken with a healthy dose of veggies in there. Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice was mostly brown colored rice with chunks of scrambled egg.

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Realizing that chicken was not terribly noticeable, I decided to add my own chicken to it, in the form of a fried egg. Will it scratch the itch of fried rice? Yes. Is it as good as your local Chinese establishment? Probably not. Will you need to add protein to this? Yes. Beef, chicken, shrimp, pork, tofu, or a fried egg are needed to make this go from a side to an actual meal.

Is it meant as a side? Probably. If you are like me and fried rice an be the main meal be prepared to add to this. But for $2.99 (it used to be $2.29, but everything seems to be going up) I'm not going to complain too much. You'll spend far more at your local Chinese eatery.

The rice was fine, the veggies were cooked through. The bits of scrambled egg I could take or leave, but my hangup was the lack of chicken. Because it is called chicken fried rice and I wanted this to eat like a meal.

It just didn't. You are totally going to have to supplement this or serve it as a side dish.

Because this is priced more than the Vegetable Fried Rice that's where my issue is. There wasn't enough chicken in this to even remotely think that this was worth the extra money.

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Below are some frequently asked questions about Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice:

Is Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice precooked?

Yes, this rice is precooked and only needs a couple of minutes in the microwave in order to be heated through

How much is Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice?

This product costs $2.99

Overall

Would I buy this again? Sorry, only a maybe. I was really hoping for more here. While the directions were perfect, the finished product was just ok.

However, I think Trader Joe's Japanese Fried Rice is way better in terms of flavor. But was there a huge difference between this and Trader Joe's Vegetable Fried Rice? Honestly, not really.

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Even though the front of the bag says 5 minutes, cooking 1 portion (1 and ⅓ cups) takes 2 minutes in the microwave. The directions were spot on. For 2 minutes in the microwave this is what it looked like:

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