A squishy beef pie! (Tesco Deep Fill Puff Pastry Steak Pie)

Member Name: xxfoxyredxx

Product:	Tesco Deep Fill Puff Pastry Steak Pie
Date:	27/08/09 (44 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap and ok tasting

Disadvantages: Bland and a bit brick like!

I can't resist an offer so the other day whilst mooching in Tesco I saw these pies on offer 2 for a pound and I really wanted a chicken & mushroom one anyway so decided to make a saving and get two and try something I don't normally go for and it was this, steak pie! I was so looking forward to it because I love pastry (although I really do try and avoid it so to keep my size 8 figure lol) but sometimes even I fail and have to succumb lol.

The Packaging....

Oblong brown and see through thin plastic wrapper. On the front I can see a section of the pie through it (as it has a see-through window) and then I'm told it is Tesco 'Puff Pastry' Steak Pie and that it contains no artificial preservatives, flavours, colours or hydrogenated fat, there is an at a glance nutritional chart on there, I'm told to keep it refrigerated, there is a best before date shown and finally a bar-code. On the back of the packet I'm told how to cook it (20-22 minutes in the oven from chilled or 50-55 minutes from frozen 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 or it can be microwaved for 3 1/2 - 4 minutes), ingredients and allergy advice is given as is a full nutritional breakdown and I'm told how to freeze it, size is stated (150g), the recycle symbol is displayed, contact details for Tesco are given and that is that really. The pie itself comes in a foil tray and overall the packaging is ok but nothing special type of thing though it's informative enough of course.

The Pie:

Well as I'm so lazy I took mine out of the tray and placed it in the microwave not really expecting much from this. When I put it in the microwave it was a pale cream colour and felt greasy and stodgy to the bottom of it. As it cooked I got a smell of beefy gravy and when I took it out of the microwave although it was cooked it still hadn't firmed up (which is usual with a microwave not to of course) and again it took on no golden colour so if you buy this I would say it's worth oven cooking I reckon.

Taste wise, well it was ok. The pastry wasn't as puff as I thought it would be and I'd describe it more as quite flavourless and stodgy. It didn't taste seasoned or buttery or anything but it was digestible. The inside of the pie did have a nice fragrant dark brown gravy to it which was quite thick (though not lumpy or too runny) and there were like fibres of meat in there rather than meaty chunks and I detected no chunks as such and although onion is listed on the ingredient list I couldn't find any appearance of it and my palette couldn't detect it at all.

The filling tasted ok, though there wasn't a vast amount of it and I wasn't impressed by the lack of steak and didn't really want a pastry pie with some gravy in it. I wasn't keen, felt it lacked flavour and only was worth the 50p I paid for it type of thing!

Allergy Advice:

Contains: Milk, wheat, gluten.

Nutritional Information Per Pie:
Calories: 445
Sugar: 1.7g
Fat: 27.6g
Saturates: 12.9g
Salt: 1.5g

Only available in Tesco stores and if interested do watch for them on offer.

Summary: An economy buy in every sense