{"id":4674,"date":"2024-08-19T22:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2024-08-19T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:42:25","slug":"trader-joes-chicken-shawarma-bowl-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2024\/08\/trader-joes-chicken-shawarma-bowl-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe&#8217;s Chicken Shawarma Bowl Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disappointingly insipid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-1024x602.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-1024x602.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-768x452.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-1536x903.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458-676x398.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-08-14-153950_003-e1724078028458.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shawarma, in both its lamb and chicken varieties, has become quite common in the US, as Arab\/Middle Eastern\/Mediterranean food trucks and restaurants have become popular.  And putting foods traditionally wrapped in tortillas or breads into bowls has been a thing here for quite a while.  It&#8217;s thus not surprising that Trader Joe&#8217;s would offer a frozen <strong>Chicken Shawarma Bowl<\/strong>.  What is surprising is how flavorless it is.  The bowl has rice, spiced chicken, red peppers, tiny pieces of spinach and pickled onions and is supposed to have a spicy garlic sauce.  There is some spice into the dish, but very, very little flavor either in the individual ingredients or in the dish as a whole.  It&#8217;s edible, but I definitely would not get it again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointingly insipid Shawarma, in both its lamb and chicken varieties, has become quite common in the US, as Arab\/Middle Eastern\/Mediterranean food trucks and restaurants have become popular. And putting foods traditionally wrapped in tortillas or breads into bowls has been a thing here for quite a while. It&#8217;s thus not surprising that Trader Joe&#8217;s would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[296,122,297,28,259],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","tag-arab","tag-frozen-food","tag-middle-eastern","tag-reviews","tag-trader-joes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","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=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}