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Date Night in New Orleans
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  • Date Night in New Orleans
  • Date Night in New Orleans
  • Date Night in New Orleans
Date Night in New Orleans

Date Night in New Orleans
£9.00

Smoky Cajun spices meet sweet pecan praline for a date night in the Deep South

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The food of New Orleans echoes the city’s historically diverse population with influence from French, African, Spanish, Native American, Indian and Caribbean cuisine. Here we’ve got ‘blackened’ chicken served with cornbread and corn salad. ‘Blackening’ is a modern Cajun technique of caramelising fish or meat in spices and butter to make a delicious crust. For the main course there's jambalaya, which originated in Louisiana during Spanish rule as a local version of paella. Ingredients from the Caribbean and Latin America crept into the dish, and the smoky, spicy modern jambalaya was born. To cool everything off, for dessert there's ice cream studded with one of the most popular sweets in Louisiana - pecan praline!
Details

Prep: 40 mins

Cook: 1 hour 30 mins

Serves: 2

Effort: Medium effort

Origin: USA
Shopping list
  • 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts (about 150g each) or use meat-free chicken style pieces
  • 150g shelled prawns (raw ones are best) or use chickpeas or cut green beans for a veg version
  • 100g chorizo or use veggie chorizo
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 pepper (any colour)
  • 1 bunch of spring onions
  • 1 lemon
  • 80g butter (plus extra for greasing)
  • 110ml milk (full fat is best)
  • 1 egg (any size)
  • 1 tsp tomato puree or tomato ketchup
  • 3 tbsp vinegar (white wine or cider vinegar is best)
  • 198g tin of sweetcorn
  • 65g uncooked fine or medium polenta (or use semolina)
  • 55g self-raising flour
  • 150g long grain rice
  • 70g soft light brown sugar
  • 50g pecan nuts
  • 500ml tub of good quality vanilla ice cream
Spices included

Jambalaya Spices: white pepper, red bell pepper, smoked paprika, bay, black pepper, thyme, savory, paprika, basil, cayenne chilli, parsley, salt, CELERY, onion, garlic

Hot Sauce Spices: red bell pepper, cayenne chilli, garlic

Cornbread Spices: green bell pepper, thyme, garlic, CELERY, black pepper, salt

Cajun Chicken Spices: white pepper, black pepper, thyme, savory, paprika, basil, cayenne chilli, parsley, salt, CELERY, onion, garlic

Pecan Spices: ginger, cassia

Corn Salad Spices: CELERY, paprika, oregano, thyme, garlic, brown MUSTARD, yellow MUSTARD, turmeric, salt

Jambalaya Herb Mix: parsley, chives, thyme, basil

Allergens are listed in CAPITALS. May contain SESAME.

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Spicery Customer

We split the box and made 2 dinners rather than one 3 course meal. The portions are so generous the starter easily made a main course. The blackened chicken was seriously delicious, and the pecan praline ice cream was to die for.

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Spicery Customer

I really like this date night meal all the elements came together and it was very filling. The spices were sensational. My favourite part was the cornbread and my friend’s favourite part was the blackened chicken overall 10 out of 10..

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Spicery Customer

The gift that started it all! I had never heard of The Spicery until my mum bought us a subscription last Christmas. Here we are using our final meal kit and it didn't disappoint! Fantastic date night New Orleans style, my personal favourite was the corn...

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Spicery Customer

Another great date night box. Used plant based alternative instead of chicken which worked great for a vegan version. Jambalaya had a great kick. Corn bread was sweet and delicious. Finished the ice cream over a few nights as very sweet but also tasted g...

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Spicery Customer

The flavours are fantastic and the meal comes together well as a real ensemble. But as with most of these meals the recipe instructions could be a lot clearer and more novice friendly - details on timings, techniques and things that could be prepared in...

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Spicery Customer

This was very tasty indeed. Everything tasted lovely and was easy to cook. Found chopping the ice cream a really messy affair and might have been better to just just mix it all up in a slightly bigger tub. I messed up and put the cornbread mix i...

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Spicery Customer

Delicious! We had a true N'Orleans night with Hurricanes, zydeco and watching The Big Easy! Husband raved about the hot sauce! And pecan praline ice cream was the perfect dessert!

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Spicery Customer

This kit was fantastic, and the blackened chicken with corn salad and hot sauce was amazing - soooo tasty!!!

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Spicery Customer

Fantastic! Interesting and fun to make. Really nice combination of dishes -- plenty of light, punchy heat. Love the idea of starting with blackened chicken for a protein hit, and then going onto jambalaya that is simultaneously carby (rice) but delicate ...

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Spicery Customer

Delicious and super easy. The hot sauce is hot!!!

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Spicery Customer

A great meal, really loved every element but the blackened chicken and pecan praline ice cream were particularly amazing.

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Spicery Customer

This was a really fantastic kit! So tasty and easy, we've ordered it again to impress friends! The 3 course menu is a lot of food, we split the starter and main into 2 meals. The icecream was enough for a few afters. Thank you Spicery, this was super de...

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Spicery Customer

Fab meal really enjoyed making and tasting this one

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Spicery Customer

Really impressed with this spice box. Wasn't expecting much from the blackened chicken but it was delicious and really simple to make. The jambalaya had nice subtle flavours. And I ended up eating the pecan praline by itself before it went anywhere near ...

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