A tasty ready made quiche (Sainsbury's Quiche Lorraine)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Sainsbury's Quiche Lorraine
Date:	18/03/09 (72 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very tasty when hot, nice pastry, a good amount of bacon

Disadvantages: High in calories and fat, a little plain when eaten cold

For my granddaughter's tenth birthday buffet I bought a Quiche Lorraine from Sainsbury's as I needed a buffet I could throw together rather than spending hours cooking beforehand. I have had these before and been impressed so I knew I wouldn't be embarrassed serving this to the few guests who were invited.

I cut the quiche into six decent sized slices as I was also serving another variety of the quiche and was impressed with the neat way it sliced, it didn't disintegrate into crumbs and there was enough resistance to my knife to make me think this was going to be a substantial and well filled quiche.

I find it tasty, a little bland perhaps but perfectly fine dipped in mayo or a little barbecue sauce. The eggy mixture is creamy and there are plenty of decent sized pieces of bacon in each slice, I like the fact that the bacon has flavoured the filling of the quiche so there's an all round meatiness to the whole thing. The texture is nice enough, the only problem is when cold I find this quiche to be a little bit plain and there is barely any seasoning. The pastry case is ok, obviously mass produced and rather stodgy in consistency but it's not bad at all.

Although I served this cold I have warmed it before and eaten it as part of a meal. It's much nicer warm, the bacon goes almost like real bacon in taste and texture and the filling becomes very creamy and smooth. The pastry takes on a crumbly melt in the mouth texture and rather than being stodgy it's buttery and very tasty. When heating the bottom of the pastry case becomes a bit soggy, I don't care about this as there are worse things in life than soggy pastry but I know some people cannot stand this so please bear it in mind.

This Quiche Lorraine costs £1.84 which isn't the cheapest supermarket quiche around, it's better than Tesco and Morrisons versions but I much prefer a recent one I bought from Asda which was cheaper but more flavoursome when cold. One third of the quiche contains 350 calories, which is very high indeed and for this reason I will continue to make my own lower fat version of a Quiche Lorraine and save myself a few calories.

Summary: This quiche certainly went down well at my granddaughter's party.