A great little store cupboard emergency product (Dolmio Stir-in Tomato & roasted garlic)

Member Name: joannan

Product:	Dolmio Stir-in Tomato & roasted garlic
Date:	06/11/09 (107 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great if you need a quick supper

Disadvantages: Bit pricey

After having my childrens Godmother babysit for an unexpected event, she didn't fancy what I had prepared for her for her Dinner, and went rummiging around and found that we offer absolutly no convenienve food in our house at all!!!! She is a veggi, we are so far removed from veggi I cannot begin to tell you. We had nothing other than a freezer full of meat, or various home made meals that had been bulk cooked and frozen...MEAT again I'm afraid.

Next time I was in Tesco I decided to pop a few easy and quick veggie options in my larder for Aunty Paw Paw (Kids!)

She had mentioned that she liked the Dolmio Stir in sauces, so I hunted these out. I chose a couple, one of which was Slow roasted Garlic and tomato. The tiny 150g tub states it serves 2.

It doesn't look anything like the picture stored on this site. It is a round squat plastic tub, hard ish clear plastic. It has a deep purple cardboard sleeve covering it, round and fully covering the top and a thiner strip around the back. Sliding it off to reveal a silver pull back top like a yoghurt pot. Very neat.

Ingredients:

Tomatoes 58%, tomato puree 14%, Onion, sunflower oil, Oliver oil 4%, modified maize, starch, Sugar, basil, salt, Roasted garlic, garlic, chilli paste, milk protein, lactic acid, Black pepper and stabiliser (xanthan gum)

Per 100g

134kcal
1.7g protein
9.5g carbs
of which sugars 6.3g
fat 9.9g
of which saturates 1.3g
fibre 1.6g
sodium 0.64g

So, whats it like and how do you use it. I looked at the cooking instructions on the packet and infact found that there are no cooking instrutions. You simply stir it into 300g of hot pasta!! Stir in sauce...ta da!

It is a rich dark red colour, with a few chunks of tomato in it, but fairly smooth. It smelled like any other generic pasta sauce from a jar. It had flex of dried herbs running through it, which I found fairly unappealing.

The taste. I wasn't really eating the sauce, gave it to the kids on a fresh chorzo and manchego pasta from Waitrose. They wolfed it down at a rate of....hungry toddlers!!!!! They loved it.

I tasted it, it was a nice strong rich flavour, like an intencely redvced sauce. It definatly didn't taste in the shighted bit home-made, but it wasnt unpleasent. And my children who love home made food, loved it!!!!

It didn't taste very strongly of garlic, but I do cook with it alot, so I am not the best garlic judge. However, my little ones absolutly stank of garlic after eating it, even after brushing their teeth 3 hours later.

I will be buying it again as a store cupboard emergancy item, I do think they are very very expensive for what they are, and I could make something similar for pennies.....but its not at all bad.

4 stars because of the toppy price tag.

Summary: Its not as bad as I had espected!