{"id":5498,"date":"2025-06-27T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2025-06-27T00:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:43:19","slug":"trader-joes-mini-chicken-tikka-samosas-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/06\/trader-joes-mini-chicken-tikka-samosas-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe&#8217;s Mini Chicken Tikka Samosas Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perfectly nice snack suited for an air fryer<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986-938x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5496\" style=\"width:336px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986-938x1024.jpg 938w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986-676x738.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8670-e1750954924986.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the invention of the air fryer, I would not have even bothered buying a frozen snack like this.  I don&#8217;t like turning the oven if I don&#8217;t have to &#8211; toaster ovens annoy so much that I put mine away -, and I hate having to pan-fry anything that is store bought. If I can&#8217;t microwave it effectively &#8211; and microwaving something with pastry like this, will turn the pastry soggy -, I rather not eat it.  The air-fryer has changed all that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These snacks are small, and therefore perfect for an even small air fryer like mine &#8211; cook them for 10 minutes at 375F.  They come out with a nice, think and crispy shell and a flavorful but not too spicy filling.  There is a good ratio of filling to shell.  The are pretty tasty by themselves but you can dip them on anything you want.  I used honey mustard dressing, as I was going through a honey-mustard-on-everything phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d buy them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfectly nice snack suited for an air fryer Before the invention of the air fryer, I would not have even bothered buying a frozen snack like this. I don&#8217;t like turning the oven if I don&#8217;t have to &#8211; toaster ovens annoy so much that I put mine away -, and I hate having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[561,122,279,28,259],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","tag-appetizers","tag-frozen-food","tag-indian-food","tag-reviews","tag-trader-joes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","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=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}