Plated is a weekly dinner kit subscription box with high-quality ingredients and chef-created recipes. Each week you’ll choose from a variety of quick gourmet meals that range from meats, chicken, seafood, and purely vegetarian options. Detailed, step-by-step instructions make it easy to create restaurant-style dishes at home. You can swap out your recipes and skip any week you don’t want.
Plated insulates the food with padding filled with recycled thread material. Boxes are always packed with the meat on the bottom, underneath a few big ice packs – the rest of the food is set on top with more ice.
Plated sends a weekly email – it doesn’t tell you much about your meals, other than what you need from home. They now offer three-serving meals! This is a great option for guaranteeing leftovers for a tasty and easy lunch!
DEAL: Currently you can get 2 free plates when you buy 4 when you sign up with this link (no coupon code required).
On-card information is now streamlined and includes only prep-time, number of servings and calorie count. Most of Plated’s meals serve two people. Unless stated otherwise, the pics of finished dishes show a single serving.
Plated’s recipes rely on mise en place and then cook – we often mix up the steps from how the recipe is written, but we’re both experienced cooks and know what can be accomplished while something else cooks. So, read your cards if you need the step by steps.
All the food comes bagged up and separated (mostly) into the recipes – meat and some large or delicate items are bagged separately.
Cuban Chicken Rice Bowls With Mojo Sauce And Avocado Pineapple Salsa. 35-45 minutes, medium, 750 calories per serving.
This dish paired a pile of citrus and cumin enhanced chicken with tender rice and black beans. The unusual pairing of avocado and provides both brightness and creaminess. Relatively simple to prepare, this meal has a nice comfort food feel without being too heavy.
Sweet And Spicy Pan-Roasted Chicken With Carrots And Dates. 35-45 minutes, easy, 740 calories per serving.
This was a pleasant play on classic roast chicken, adding sweet dates to roast carrots to create an intense an richly sweet accompaniment. The roast fingerling potatoes crisped beautifully, as did the thin layer of skin on the chicken breast. This dish was easy to prepare and packed big flavor and lots of textural variety.
Seared Steak With Italian Street Corn And Basil Pistou. 25-35 minutes, easy, 740 calories per serving.
The street corn portion of this meal is very simple to make, yet it packs great flavor. The steak, of course, was great and flavorful. The pistou is essentially a rough pesto without pine nuts, and it bathes the steak in flavor. This dish is a Plated “favorite,” so it is available often. Because we’ve made it recently, we neglected to grab a new photo (this pic is from September). The dish was essentially the same as last time, except the corn was already cut off the cob.
Plated continues to deliver great meals. We like the balance the offerings strike between classic dishes accompanied by a French-style sauce with more contemporary and international offerings, plus some simplified and more mainstream dishes — we can always find something tasty to order!
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