Wagamama Chicken Raisukaree

Wagamama chicken raisukaree costs £16.90 and carries 1092 kcal, and it is the curry for people who want warmth without a fight. Chicken in a mild coconut curry sauce with mangetout, peppers, onion, chilli and sesame seeds over white rice, and unlike most of the menu it carries wagamama's gluten free marking.

Raisukaree is wagamama's own word, a mash of rice and curry, and the dish reads like a Thai curry that moved to Japan: coconut rich, citrus bright, gently warming rather than hot. The mangetout and peppers stay crunchy against the soft rice, the sesame seeds toast the top of every forkful, and the chilli is present as flavour rather than heat. Of the three raisukaree plates this is the one with the most protein, around 38 g, and the lowest salt in the entire curry section.

That last fact deserves the emphasis: at around 3.2 g of salt this is one of the gentlest big plates wagamama serves, roughly half of what the firecracker dishes carry. The chicken raisukaree calories at 1092 kcal still make it a proper meal, but it is the curry a nutritionist would point at first on this page.

Where it sits in the section tells you who it is for. Katsu is heavier, firecracker is hotter, and the raisukaree is the plate for the person at the table who wants dinner rather than an event: warming, fragrant and finished with citrus instead of fire. It is also the plate most often recommended to first time visitors who do not eat fried food, because it shows the kitchen's coconut and citrus register without the crumb and oil the katsu leans on.

People asking how much is the chicken raisukaree will find £16.90 on most boards, with the usual uplift at London and airport sites. The published price is wagamama's own, no estimate needed. It shares a table well with a plate of chicken gyoza, and the tropical juice leans into the coconut rather than fighting it.