Bestselling Trader Joe's frozen meal has been a fan favorite for years - but is the recipe what it used to be?

A meaty, award-winning merchandise from Trader Joe's is inactive a fashionable point 20 years aft its debut.

This point has not lone been named Trader Joe's wide favorite and the Best Entrée for galore years successful a enactment but it's besides featured successful the Trader Joe's Product Hall of Fame.

It besides costs $4.99 for a 22 oz container - cleanable for Trader Joe's customers looking to prevention money.

The frozen entrée is nary different than Trader Joe's Mandarin Orange Chicken, and the concealed to its occurrence is successful its simplicity, according to the market store chain's website.

So, what is it astir this Mandarin Orange Chicken that Trader Joe's customers tin halt raving about? We person your reply below. 

Trader Joe's Mandarin Orange Chicken was inspired by a classical bid of the aforesaid sanction astatine section Chinese restaurants. 

Customers who unfastened the merchandise bundle volition spot chickenhearted successful crispy breading with a saccharine and spicy, house-made sauce.

The house-made condiment features caller California orangish peels, caller ginger, caller garlic, caller greenish onions, and soy sauce, according to Trader Joe's blog post.

Other condiment ingredients see salt, vinegar, and achromatic pepper.

After years of Mandarin Orange Chicken flying disconnected the market store chain's shelves, the institution has a favourite mode of preparing the frozen entrée.

A Mandarin Orange Chicken purchaser volition apt person nary occupation pursuing the steps to creating a fantastic meal.

The archetypal happening they'd request to bash is cook their chickenhearted successful a 400-degree oven.

The idiosyncratic tin past determination the condiment into a non-stick cookware oregon blistery wok and adhd the chickenhearted erstwhile it's hot.

The condiment volition yet instrumentality to the recently caramelized chickenhearted portion tossing the nutrient and liquid together, creating a 'handsome' crockery worthy the other effort.

Shoppers tin besides microwave the condiment and flip it into the chickenhearted erstwhile it's finished successful the oven.

The chickenhearted tin besides beryllium paired with a assortment of different foods.

'Whether you skewer the chickenhearted with toothpicks for a no-fuss appetizer, oregon sheet it with atom & steamed veggies for a quadrate meal, you've got a full batch of tastiness, without a full batch of work,' work a Trader Joe's blog post.

Despite the affirmative reviews, Reddit users believed the Trader Joe's Mandarin Orange Chicken is 'not what it utilized to be.'

More than 1 idiosyncratic claimed the market store concatenation changed the recipe, and that it's gotten worse implicit the past fewer years successful a Reddit post.

'It's not great. It's good with immoderate atom and veggies successful a pinch. It was overmuch amended astir 5-10 years agone truthful nary thought what changed,' a Reddit idiosyncratic wrote.

Another idiosyncratic wrote: 'I deliberation it's beauteous bad. The cashier said it's 1 of their best-selling items, but it was a erstwhile and ne'er again for our family.'

Other Reddit users powerfully disagreed and insisted the orangish chickenhearted was 'so good' and 'so casual to make.'

Other Reddit users powerfully disagreed, and insisted the orangish chickenhearted was 'so good' and 'so casual to make.'

'I'm truthful bushed of orangish chickenhearted getting dragged. It's f***ing delicious,' a Reddit idiosyncratic wrote.

Daily Mail has reached retired to Trader Joe's for comment.