I'm either extremely brave or extraordinarily stupid ... Or perhaps I do this for the good of the blogosphere, and microwave gourmands the world over! Lady and gentleman, and whomever else may chance to read my brief attempt to alleviate workplace boredom, I present to you:

Dakshin's Lamb Rogan Josh (w/ Rice)

There is scant time for pleasantries or introductions, the beep I just heard alerts me that I  have 1-2 minutes of cooling time before I can eat. Quickly then, "Snack-sized meal of tender lamb in a tangy medium-spiced tomato and onion gravy, served with rice." Is it a snack, or a meal? I don't think it can be both. I shall call it: A sneal!

Uncooked, the meal looked like... at this point I'm sure you can guess. It looked like frozen shit with rice. Ok, let me retrieve my flavoursome bounty from it's nuclear tabernacle. As I anticipated, the meal now resembles liquefied shit. Mmmmmmm...

The aroma is surprisingly pleasant, I can pick out cardamom and the lamb. Is that jasmine? No nevermind it's not on the ingredients list. The rice is slightly better than in the Butter Chicken (see last entry) - the individual grains actually have some texture to them rather than commingling into a gelatinous puddle. The meat seems to have survived the packaging, freezing and reheating process fairly intact - that's two points over the last effort already. I don't know if it's a property of lamb vs chicken but it is much more pleasing to eat. The gravy of the meal is nothing to write home about - a mild tang scintillates the tongue, and the flavours are savoury and salty, fragrant, but still a little bland - not terrible, however. Gone is the overbearing sweetness of the Butter Chicken, and while this is far removed even from a mall curry I find myself enjoying it (relatively speaking).

What more can I say? Dakshin's, you have redeemed yourself (or maybe, time has dulled the aching memory of the last meal I ate from Dakshin's).

Final Verdict

As a microwave meal: 6.5/10

As an actual meal: 3/10