Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice

What is it?

A 12.5-ounce frozen single-serve meal, built around chunks of cooked white meat chicken in a mild curry sauce with butter, cream, and crushed tomatoes. Onion, garlic, ginger, and a light mix of spices give the sauce its orange-red color and smooth, thick texture, while the basmati rice sits alongside it in the tray as a plain, fragrant base. It’s fully cooked and meant for the microwave, with the rice and chicken reheating together from frozen. Compared with some other Trader Joe’s frozen entrées, this one stays closer to a classic butter chicken format, with the sauce doing most of the work and the rice mainly there to soak it up.