The Adventure Menu Chicken Tikka Masala is another vacuum-packed freeze-dried backpacking meal, with the benefits of reduced pack space and no oxygen absorber. One downside: the pack was hard to open. I needed to use my pocket knife to get in. There is a usable internal fill scale.
Alex Roddie Recommends
As chicken tikka masala goes this was one of the best I’ve eaten in dehydrated form.- Large pieces of chicken
- Good spice flavour
- High in saturated fat
- Pack not the easiest to open
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| Price: £10.99 Weight: 115g Calories: 760 Calories/100g: 660.9 Calories/£1: 69.2 Time to hydrate: 9 minutes Vegan/vegetarian/dairy free/gluten free? no Allergens: cream, milk basecampfood.com |
The ingredients in the Adventure Menu Chicken Tikka Masala do appear to be mostly or entirely natural – but the meal is high in saturated fat (most likely from the cream), and has more salt than some meals.
The meal rehydrated in nine minutes, right on schedule. You get really large lumps of chicken in this one – so big you’ll need to take several bites! This is a world away from typical old-school dehydrated meals where everything is chopped into fine chunks, and can make a big difference to your experience of the meal. As chicken tikka masala goes this was one of the best I’ve eaten in dehydrated form.
Although the sticker price is high, value is reasonable (by 2024 standards) considering the calories and quality.
