Linda McCartney Deep Country Pies
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Linda McCartney Deep Country Pies

rojm

Member Name: rojm

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Linda McCartney Deep Country Pies

Date: 23/02/12

Rating:

Advantages: tasty

Disadvantages: ?

I really like these pies and they are suitable for vegans too.
There are 4 pies each in a tinfoil dish, they are then in a cardboard box. This is good because all packaging can be recycled.

You can buy them from the frozen section in most supermarkets for around the £2 mark.

When you open the box and take the pies out they look like any normal pie with two tiny holes on top. I always make the holes bigger so the pie doesn't explode and the mince pour out when cooking.
They need to be cooked on 200 or gas mark 6 which is what I cook everything on anyway and will take about 30 minutes to cook or slightly less if using a fan oven. I always leave them in the foil to cook.

Once out of the oven the top of the pastry looks a nice cooked colour and inside the filling is a deep brown colour.
When you cut these pies the fillings spreads out as it would with a pie filled with real mince and gravy. I can't say these taste like real meat as I haven't eaten it for years.
The pastry tastes nice and light, as in it doesn't taste stodgy like some do; and the filling is nice and tasty, it contains lots of flavours to make it tasty like garlic puree, onion and pepper etc.

In each pie there is about 412 calories which seems about normal for the pastry things I tend to eat. They have 0.5g of sodium which is at the top of what is ok with me.

These pies go really well with gravy but are also ok on their own for me there is plenty of mince and gravy in them and the only bit of flaky pastry is on top. The mince is soya (with onion) and not quorn which is what makes them suitable for vegans.

These pies are quite filling but we sometimes have them with veg and mash or roast potatoes.

Summary: nice tasty pies