Who though vegetables could taste so good! (Dalepak Vegetable Grills)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Dalepak Vegetable Grills
Date:	04/10/09 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Taste delicious, very filling, perfectly seasoned

Disadvantages: Need a longer cooking time than indicated

I quite often have these Dalepak Vegetable Grills for my tea with a salad as I am currently trying to cut my consumption of meat down, these are perfect because they are tasty and filling but without containing any meat whatsoever.

They are basically teardrop shaped patties of chopped vegetables that have been mixed with some kind of cereal to give a soft and very flavoursome meal component.

They don't look terribly appetising as they are rather pale and floppy in appearance, you can see the various vegetables in the Grill but on the surface of it there doesn't appear to be many in there.

According to the box the vegetables used to make the Grills are onion, carrots, sweetcorn, broccoli, green beans and red peppers. The most pungent flavour to me is the red pepper, although everything has been so very well blended that it's all combined to give a beautiful mixed vegetable flavour rather than concentrating on just one ingredient.

The vegetables are all chopped up very small and once cooked they are very soft and blend beautifully with the seasoned cereal that makes up the bulk of the meal.

It's hard to describe the flavour of these because it's such a mix of tastes, all I can really say is that the Vegetable Grill taste of vegetables and some very, very subtle herbs and spices to add to the flavour.

You can grill, fry or cook these in the oven but I find the oven method is best - I had one fried once and the soft Grill soaks up far too much fat so I definitely don't recommend cooking them like this if you're dieting! The cooking instructions tell you to bake them for 20 minutes but I find this gives me an incredibly soft Grill and as I prefer them to be a little more substantial in texture I usually leave mine in for around 30 minutes until the very edges of them have begun to blacken. This enhances the flavour significantly and personally I find it to be a much more pleasant consistency when cooked for this longer period of time.

As a meat replacement these are fantastic. Two Grills make for a very filling meal and as I always serve them with either a large mixed salad or some pasta they do add some much needed flavour to my plate.

A box of four Vegetable Grills costs £1.69 in my local grocer shop, although I believe you can buy them cheaper in specialist frozen food shops such as Iceland or Farm Foods.

Summary: A delicious meat replacement that doesn't leave you feeling deprived