Yet another pie review! (Tesco Puff Pastry Chicken & Mushroom Pie)

Member Name: xxfoxyredxx

Product:	Tesco Puff Pastry Chicken & Mushroom Pie
Date:	27/08/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful enough

Disadvantages: Read review, it's simply not so great!

I love pastry and it's a real downfall of mine and so when I saw 2 individual pies for a £1.00 (there were a few choices to choose from in flavours) on offer (usual price 69p each) I picked up a chicken and mushroom one as it's my favourite flavour...usually!

The Packaging....

The pie itself comes in a silver tray which is covered by a see-through and light brown plastic packet. On the front of that in black and white writing I'm told it is Tesco Puff Pastry Chicken & Mushroom Pie and that it has no artificial preservatives, flavours, colours or hydrogenated fat. There is then an at a glance nutritional chart, I'm told to keep it refrigerated and the display/use by dates are displayed and there is a bar-code on there. On the back of the packet I'm given cooking instructions (3 1/2 - 4 minutes in the microwave or 20-22 minutes in the oven from chilled or 50-55 minutes from frozen), ingredients and allergy advice is listed, I'm given storage instructions (these are freezable by the way), nutritional information is there too and finally contact details for Tesco are given. It's cheap looking, flimsy packaging but it's informative enough to be fair to it.

The Pie Itself:

Well I banged mine in the microwave and it cooked through in the time stated. The pie itself is of course a pastry case which is a beige colour and the top of it is smooth. However once cooked the base goes really soggy and squidgy and the whole thing gives off little smell but it don't look great.

Taste wise it's ok. It isn't anything special. I found the pastry to be not so buttery as I'd like it to be for puff pastry and a bit stodgy rather than flaking and the filling was a bit on the low side and what that was, was a mainly white sauce that was rather bland with little pieces of anemic chicken in it with a few well cooked pieces of mushroom but it was just all a bit soggy, and bland and I felt it lacked alot in seasoning and the individual flavours never came through at all. Rubbery chicken, soggy mushrooms and a gloopy sauce. Not keen, but it's not awful and filling...this is.

Allergy Advice:

Contains milk, wheat, gluten.
Recipe: No nuts.
Ingredients: Cannot guarantee nut free.
Factory: No nuts.

Nutritional Information....

Calories: 409
Sugar: 1.8g
Fat: 24.2g
Saturates: 11.4g
Salt: 1.1g

Only available in Tesco.

Summary: I won't buy it again!