EDL Bites: The So Fresh Avo Spicy Chicken Salad - Best Bang for Your Buck?
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I’m a huge fan of the salad and smoothie wave we’ve been experiencing in Lagos over the past few years, with more and more businesses offering fast, lower-calorie, all-in-one meals that come straight to your door. When I’m in the mood for fruit and veg (that I had no business slicing and dicing), I order the odd banana granola parfait or any salad with chicken in it, and I’m usually pretty content. My last voyage into the fresh salad world wasn’t such a great one, though.
So Fresh Avo Spicy Chicken Salad
I recently ordered the Avo Spicy Chicken Salad from So Fresh, which contains spicy chicken (obvs), cubed avocados, boiled eggs, diced cabbage and carrots, and shredded lettuce. A winning recipe in my opinion, but unfortunately, this salad just didn’t cut it. To give the most fair review possible, I ordered this salad twice, two weeks apart, and tried it with and without the dressing, but my views were the same.
Spicy chicken is pretty difficult to mess up and thankfully, I got to enjoy that, alongside the avocado chunks — they were fresh and creamy — and sliced boiled eggs. But then everything else got weird. The carrots tasted quite dry and chalky, and the cabbage and lettuce had an unpleasant acidic taste I couldn’t get my head around.
This is where salad dressing comes in, right? To give the salad much-needed moisture and bring all the elements together. Sadly, this was probably my least favourite bit of the meal. The creamy (house?) dressing had no real identifiable taste — I couldn’t make out if it was classic, French, something else? All in all, didn’t give this salad the lift I was hoping for and there was very little harmony between all the different parts. The flavours just didn’t work together.
For its price (see below), the Avo Spicy Chicken Salad is not a bad deal at all — if it actually tasted nice. Safe to say I most likely won’t be ordering this again, however I’m very open to trying other things from So Fresh, like their parfaits, which are quite yum.
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4/10 for me
Damage
Avo Spicy Chicken Salad - N3100
