FreshDirect and Tabla Continue to Bring Affordable, Mouthwatering New Indian Cuisine Directly to Consumers
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., March 19 /PRNewswire/ — FreshDirect, one of the nation’s leading online gourmet food purveyors and delivery services, today announced the addition of three new entree choices to its Tabla line of 4-Minute Meals. Created in collaboration with renowned Chef
Floyd Cardoz of Tabla restaurant in New York City, these meals offer consumers the sensual flavors, aromatic spices and fresh ingredients that guests enjoy at the highly acclaimed restaurant.
The entrees expanding the Tabla 4-Minute Meal menu include:
- Tabla Masala-Spiced Macaroni W/ Creamy Spinach & Paneer (VEGETARIAN) – $6.99
- Tabla Vegetable Curry W/ Pistachio Brown Rice (VEGETARIAN) – $6.99
- Tabla Chicken Coconut Curry W/
Basmati Rice – $7.99
A spicy dish chock full of elbow pasta, milky Indian cheese, creamy, yogurt-braised spinach, diced zucchini, green peas and fragrant spices, the Tabla Masala-Spiced Macaroni W/ Creamy Spinach & Paneer 4-Minute Meal is delicious and comforting.
The Tabla Vegetable Curry W/ Pistachio Brown Rice entree delivers a mix of zest and tang along with a creamy base accompanied by vegetarian curry composed of cauliflower and broccolini, hearty taro root, zucchini slices, green peas, carrots and a drizzle of butter. To top it off, it is served over nutty brown rice made with sweet pistachio nuts and a hint of cilantro.
The Tabla Chicken Coconut Curry W/
Basmati Rice is a fragrant dish featuring a sauce combination of coconut, ginger, chilis and a blend of heady spices coating braised chicken. The tasty meal is completed with aromatic curry leaf and mustard seed alongside a mixture of carrots, turnips and slender haricots verts, and served atop fragrant steamed basmati rice.
“Working with Tabla and Chef Cardoz has been a terrific experience for FreshDirect. We are excited to offer our customers an expanded menu selection of Tabla’s New Indian cuisine,” said
Tina Bourbeau, Director of Research and Development for FreshDirect. “These delicious meals are perfect for busy New Yorkers who seek restaurant-quality ingredients but want to enjoy the meals from the comfort of their home, office or anywhere there is a microwave. They can even be served at a dinner party for unsuspecting guests – from microwave to table in just four minutes!”
“We are thrilled to build upon our fantastic partnership with FreshDirect, and are so excited to introduce these new Tabla meals to New Yorkers,” says Chef
Floyd Cardoz. “We love the idea of bringing a taste of Tabla into people’s homes, and we hope these new dishes make for an easy and delicious lunch or dinner.”
With the addition of these new meals, FreshDirect customers now have an expanded selection of 10 Tabla 4-Minute Meals, along with seven tasty Ready-to-Cook entrees and four appetizing side dishes. Tabla meals are designed exclusively for FreshDirect customers and are available for purchase at www.freshdirect.com.
About Tabla
Located on Madison Square Park, Tabla (www.tablany.com) is a groundbreaking restaurant serving Chef
Floyd Cardoz’s pioneering New Indian cuisine. With his signature blend of authentic Indian spices and the finest local seasonal ingredients, Chef Cardoz expertly applies western technique to re-imagine the flavors of his native India. The restaurant is part of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. Tabla has received numerous accolades from the media including three stars from The New York Times. In October 2006, Floyd released his first cookbook,
One Spice, Two Spice (
William Morrow), which includes his favorite New Indian recipes from Tabla, demystifies Indian food and flavors and teaches how to expertly add Indian spices to American cuisine.
About FreshDirect
Founded in 1999, FreshDirect is one of the nation’s leading online meals and fresh food manufacturing and delivery services. FreshDirect is setting a new standard for fresh food production and distribution by offering unparalleled quality, product customization, and value pricing from its state-of-the-art kitchen and facility in Long Island City. The company is expanding rapidly and currently serves most of Manhattan and locations in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx, as well as parts of New Jersey, Westchester, and Nassau County. The company’s vision is to change consumers’ lives by providing the ultimate shopping experience for impossibly fresh food and meal solutions. The company currently has over 250,000 customers and has fulfilled over nine million orders since opening for business in September 2002. Additional information can be found at www.freshdirect.com.
SOURCE FreshDirect
