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Quorn Chicken Style Pieces |
| Date: |
11.09.07 (295 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: A great addition to the vegetarian diet.
Disadvantages: None at all. Good comparable cost to actual meat and similar taste
I want to rave about something. Little did I know that Quorn could taste this good. I have been against these types of food, and my bias was based on past experience of chewing those products which purport to be good for you, whilst tasting like rubber. Quorn has advanced and in an effort to help supply the protein that my vegetarian husband lacked within his diet, we have been tasting all the different kinds of Quorn available on the market.
With this product, what you see is what you get, and it really did shock me. The product comes either in boxes or sachets costing around the £2.00 mark for 350 grams. It doesn't sound like good value when you look at the size of the packet, but don't be fooled by it. Inside each of the packets whether sachet or box, what you get is small pieces of Quorn that look like chicken pieces, diced into squares.
These really are fantastic value for money and where they excel is that they actually do taste like chicken pieces would taste. Cooking these with a little oil to a crisp, they are delicious as a hot snack in a roll, or added after cooking to stir fries, making chicken and mushroom pies, and indeed any dish that requires the use of chicken.
The tenderness is like the breast of chicken and the texture is very much the same, but one of the reasons I am so enthused is that I can now eat the same meal as my husband and not have to cook two separate meals for each of us any more. One bag or box goes a long, long way, and they produce a very high level of protein which vegetarians may be lacking from their diet. In fact since eating the Quorn product range, we found that blood tests show that the levels of protein are indeed much more substantial and that our change in diet has improved my husband's health.
Many vegetarians forget that whilst it may be acceptable to eat vegetables, they also need the balance in their diet that vegetables and pulses alone cannot provide, and although the detrimental effects may not be apparent straight away, can result in deficiencies that promote illness in later life. With the use of these little cubes, we are managing to get the balance back.
One way in which I have been using these is to make a stir fry for my husband, and then after serving his, adding Korma sauce to my own to make it spicier. It really is delicious and very enjoyable. The great thing about this product is that it can be kept in the freezer, and the amount needed taken out and quick thawed in the microwave ready to use at a moment's notice. We even tried it in kebabs with success though care is needed when putting it onto the sticks.
As a snack at parties, this can be used like cocktail sausages on sticks, and looks very attractive and helps those catering for vegetarians to have more choice of what to give their vegetarian guests. I cannot enthuse enough, and coming from a believer that quorn tastes like rubber, this really is a confession that I actually love the stuff, and can happily watch the chickens run around feeling rather smug that I don't need their meat to enhance my diet.
Interestingly enough, Quorn have also brought out Chicken on a roll which is suitable for Christmas dinners or roasts for vegetarians, and although the taste is not quite as good as this, it really does offer vegetarians a little more choice than before. Made out of fungi, it really is nice and a great addition to the diet.
Summary: A fantastic product that changed my view about vegetarian food.
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