

A 16-ounce frozen pasta meal, this one pairs oversized fusilloni with a cream sauce built on gochujang, soy sauce, butter, and hard cheese. The pasta is made from durum wheat semolina and comes precooked, so it only needs reheating. In Trader Joe’s frozen lineup, it sits closer to the mac and cheese end of the shelf than to a jarred pasta sauce, but the spice comes from fermented chili paste instead of red pepper flakes. The sauce is portioned in small frozen pucks, and the pasta’s deep spirals are there to catch it as everything melts together on the stovetop or in the microwave.

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