Customer Reviews

Kitchens Of India Ready To Eat Navratan Korma, Mixed Vegetable Curry & Cottage Cheese, 10-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I'm a flight attendant, and this is one of my favorite meals to bring with me on trips. Healthy, flavorful, and easy to prepare (just heat). Excellent stuff.

Cook some Basmati rice and you have a meal for two. This is an excellent product and doesn't need any additional ingredients. Tastes almost as good as authentic Indian restaurant food.

EDIT: Changing the rating. This last batch was a little bland. It tastes OK, but not great like before. With previous packages my wife and I would practically lick our bowls clean! With this last order, there is flavor missing. It no longer has the strong spicey taste to it like the restaurants do. We are really hoping it was just a bad batch.

A great fast meal. We usually have two boxes and rice, but we eat a lot. It's a little spicy, which we like.

This is my favorite Kitchens of India product. As others have said, it's lacking in cottage cheese and cashews, but it's delicious nevertheless. If you're going to eat it over rice (which I recommend), Indian rice is obviously the best, but I've eaten it over instant brown rice cooked in chicken broth and it came out surprisingly good.

This packaged dish is okay. Can be spiced up with some butter or plain yogurt. There's nothing like a great fresh Indian restaurant and food.

I usually have pretty low expectations for boxed dinners, but this dish certainly was surprisingly full of flavor. There was plenty of spice, so I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is not a fan of hot, spicy food, but if you are buying food from this region, it's probably to be expected (the description calls it mildly spicy). The vegetables dominate the mixture, which was very easy to prepare, even in the microwave. Despite what the box says, you get one nice-sized serving per package. Considering this isn't a dish most would be likely to make on their own, it's a nice cullinary departure and worth a try.

This definitely does not taste like the vegetable/navrattan korma I've had from restaurants. This is kind of oily and the vegetable korma I order out is always creamy. This also has cubes of cheese, which I've never had in my vegetable korma before. However, I think it has a good flavor. If I could describe it in non-Indian terms, it's a bit like a minestrone flavor, but of course it has that curry gravy. I would agree with the other reviews, I noticed maybe three pieces of cashew in this. I thought vegetable korma has raisins in it too, but this doesn't seem to have any. This is actually one of Kitchens of India's lower-calorie offerings -- I wondered how vegetable korma could be low calorie, but now I see it's because it's not creamy the way it is at restaurants. Still, it's decent if you don't expect the same thing you'd order out. Would go well with some basmati rice.

fYI: entire package = about 1 cup of stew. Not that much! Would definitely need rice/nan plus a side dish (salad?) to make this a meal for two.

As another reviewer noted, the stew was not overflowing with cheese and cashews as image depicts but they were still there (maybe 5-10 in a package). We added our own peanuts and cashews which was great.

Aside from those small quantity issues, we just loved it. My mom got this, and I grabbed some cause it sounded easy to make and it really was. 5 minutes max! Smelled and tasted awesome and was perfect over rice.

I really liked this product for quick meals. We have this with paratha/nan and with some rice, it gives you a whole meal. This is especially good for bachelors and/or working couples. It was a little bit oily but Indian food mostly tastes good with oil and spices.

I really enjoyed the KOI Navratan Korma. All you need is some basmati rice, and you are good to go. Usually, I get concerned with products containing paneer (cheese) in prepackaged form, but the paneer in these packs turned out not to have the rubbery texture I was concerned about. Along with the special discount, the price on these packs is great as well. Unfortunately, as with most prepackaged Indian foods, sodium contact is high and the korma is pretty oily.