I recently tried out Blue Apron. They're a cook your own meal delivery service that's fairly similar to Plated which I had previously reviewed.I'm not going to do a full scale review since it's pretty much the same concept. I will say that I wasn't really impressed mainly because they sent me the dirtiest head of lettuce ever and yellowed cucumbers that weren't even usable. Also their meals took me double the time it takes me to prepare my usual recipes. They turned out pretty well despite that but these two strikes along with the fact that you can't actually make specific meal selections is enough that I probably wouldn't cook with Blue Apron again.
My favorite out of the 3 dishes we received was this pan seared drum and tomato jam with Himalayan red rice risotto. I liked that it introduced me to a new fish, drum which is a mild flaky white fish and a way of serving fish that I don't normally do. I did have to made some adjustments to the recipe on the fly while cooking. Two tablespoons of sugar seemed like an obscene amount so I reduced it to two teaspoons and subbed coconut palm sugar which I generally use in place of white sugar. The tomato jam was still plenty sweet. Also the description for the Himalayan red rice as a risotto was completely off. Texturally it's actually more like brown rice and required more water and about triple the amount of time suggested in the recipe to fully cook. I also found that one cup yielded more than two servings, for us at least. Still I did like the concept enough that I would make a variation on this again probably with tilapia in place of the drum cause I'm not sure where to find it and use forbidden rice instead of Himalayan red rice. Here is the adapted recipe.
Pan Seared Drum and Tomato Jam with Himalayan Red Rice Risotto & Asparagus
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