Asia Green Garden Bami Goreng — €3.99
We really enjoy Asian food and Aldi’s Asia Green Garden brand has a lot of fun products that let you get a taste of different Asian cuisines like this Bami Goreng — a popular Indonesian dish.
Let’s try it!
Independent Grocery Review
This is an independent grocery review by Traveling Through Food, based on firsthand experience with the product. We purchase and try products ourselves, and our reviews reflect our honest opinions and whether we would buy them again.
Ingredients
Ingredients in English via Google Translate, errors left for amusement and the challenge of deciphering lol:
Ingredients: dough 34% (water, durum wheat semolina), seasoned grilled chicken breast 13% (chicken breast, corn/tapioca starch, testos al red pepper 8.9 %, mushrooms 8.0% (Agaricus bisporus), corn onion onion %, leek 5.3%, green pepper 4.6 %, agumelo ears-de-judas 3.6% (Auricularia polytricha), pastinaga 2.8%, bamboo sprout 2.4%, soy sauce (water, wheat, salt), refined rapeseed ila, salt, powdered tomato powder, garlic, sweet pepper powder, cumin powder, coriander, rice starch, chili powder.
Nutrition Facts
Aldi Bami Goreng Nutrition Facts in English per 100g:
- 114 calories
- 2.7g fat
- 4g saturated fat
- 16g carbohydrates
- 1.5 from sugars
- 1.8g dietary fiber
- 6g protein
- .71g salt
1 Serving size is 475 grams, or exactly half of the package, coming in at 23 grams of protein per serving.
Cooking Instructions — It’s a Cook Along!
Cooking instructions in English:
Aldi recommends preparing the dish in the frying pan.
In the frying pan: put 1-2 tablespoons of oil in a hot frying pan. Add the frozen contents from the package and make it for about 5 minutes. Then heat for another 7 minutes at medium power.
In the microwave: place the frozen contents of the package with 1 tablespoon of oil in a microwave-safe container with a lid. Heat for 8 minutes at 750 watts, stir well and heat for another 9 minutes. Stir again and let it rest for one minute before serving.
We’re going the frying pan method.
Will you join us?!
Add 1-2 tablespoons of oil in a hot frying pan
Add the contents of the package, frozen, into the pan & cook for 5 minutes on high.
It’s a bit hard to tell here, but there was an absolute mountain of food when poured out of the bag frozen, I was really surprised!
After 5 minutes on high the meal is mostly defrosted and any remaining liquid is really bubbling, which I tried to capture here, not so successfully in a still photo, and this is why you now need to turn the heat down to medium for the remainder of the cook time — you don’t want anything getting overly dried out and stuck to the pan, but you do definitely want the chicken thoroughly cooked!
Reduce heat to medium and cook for 7 more minute and serve!
After the 7 minutes I went ahead and temped the thickest piece of chicken with our favorite instant meat thermometer and it was actually not quite to a safe temperature for cooked chicken (~165F) so I let this dish continue to warm a bit further.
After a few more minutes it was up to temp and ready to taste test.
Our Review — Worth Buying?
Would we rebuy Aldi’s Asia Green Garden Bami Goreng again? I’d safely place this in the every now and again category.
Overall the dish was good. I enjoyed the fresh corn kernels and they stayed surprisingly crisp. The chicken felt like “real” chicken, if you know what I mean, and was in random sized pieces rather than perfectly manufactured cubes or slices, still we both had the thought that the chicken was so soft that you start questioning things..
But tbh the ingredient list is pretty respectable and it’s very possible that the corn starch/tapioca starch are what kept the chicken so tender.
Pro Tip: Tossing chicken in corn starch can be a real pro tip in the kitchen as it does help to lock the moisture in when cooking.
Rating: 3/4 — It’s good, I would rebuy from time to time
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