{"id":1755,"date":"2018-10-27T05:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2018-12-08T01:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:02:33","slug":"meal-kit-review-sun-baskets-lamb-korma-with-sweet-potato-mash-and-toasted-naan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2018\/10\/meal-kit-review-sun-baskets-lamb-korma-with-sweet-potato-mash-and-toasted-naan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Review: Sun Basket&#8217;s Lamb korma with sweet potato mash and toasted naan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-e1540589783379-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-e1540589783379-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-e1540589783379-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-e1540589783379-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-e1540589783379.jpg 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Rating: 8\/10<\/h3>\n<p>I love lamb korma so when I saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbasket.com\/recipe\/lamb-korma-with-sweet-potato-mash-and-toasted-naan\">lamb korma with sweet potato mash and toasted naan kit<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbasket.com\/invite\/Margarita1972904\">Sun Basket<\/a>&#8216;s menu, I knew I had to get it &#8211; even if I was a little suspicious of a meal kit being able to really being able to turn out one of my favorite dishes.<\/p>\n<p>My suspicious were justified.\u00a0 While this kit produced a very nicely spiced ground lamb, it didn&#8217;t taste like any korma I&#8217;ve ever had at an Indian restaurant &#8211; in the US, England or India itself.\u00a0 \u00a0Still, the &#8220;korma&#8221; sauce Sun Basket provided &#8211; and which is fully absorbed by the meat when you cook it -, enhanced the flavor of the lamb and made it very tasty.<\/p>\n<p>The whole wheat naan bread was also much better than it had any right to be &#8211; though I wish there had been some sauce for it to soak in.\u00a0 And adding balsamic vinegar to the mashed sweet potatoes was a glorious idea.\u00a0 It transformed baby food into something quite tasty.<\/p>\n<p>However, for whatever reason, I felt a little bit\u00a0nauseous later that night and that nausea returns whenever I think of this kit.\u00a0 My husband didn&#8217;t report a similar feeling, so it may just be me.<\/p>\n<p>It took me about an hour to make this meal, but I&#8217;m a slow prepper\/cooker. Probably the worst part about the meal, though, was the presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8601-e1540590822173-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8601-e1540590822173-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8601-e1540590822173-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8601-e1540590822173-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8601-e1540590822173.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the produce in this kit was organic, the lamb was not, though I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s particularly important vis a vis lamb.\u00a0 Everything seemed to be fresh.<\/p>\n<p>All in all this was a good meal kit.\u00a0 I paid a <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbasket.com\/invite\/Margarita1972904\">discounted price<\/a> of $11 for the kit (which serves two), and it was definitely worth that, but I don&#8217;t think it was worth the $24 regular price.\u00a0 For that amount of money I can get a large-enough-for-two order of real Indian lamb korma at my regular take-out Indian restaurant, in addition to rice and some pakoras or samosas &#8211; and I wouldn&#8217;t have to cook it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: 8\/10 I love lamb korma so when I saw this lamb korma with sweet potato mash and toasted naan kit on Sun Basket&#8216;s menu, I knew I had to get it &#8211; even if I was a little suspicious of a meal kit being able to really being able to turn out one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[331,28,398],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","tag-lamb","tag-reviews","tag-sun-basket","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}