As you can see this is the curry chicken version. What am I letting myself into?
'Nutrition' fact at the back. 40g of fat/65g carb out of 475g of dry weight. I am dead.
Opening it is pretty easy. I used a can opener and viola the lid pops up easily. Not cuts for me. As you can see from the picture above, it is a soggy mess of gooey - wheat flour. Disgusting looks!
30 minutes later from a 250C oven and this was what I got. Overcooked. The crust has risen and it is indeed golden in colour.
Is it any good I hear some of you ask? Uhm...surprisingly it tasted well. It is not spicy but it is curry. English'fied curry that is. Yes, there are chicken pieces but not too many. The problem is although I obviously overcooked the crust, some parts of the inside feels uncooked. The inside layer was still soggy.
At £1.30 something it is good value, if you can stomach something as disgusting as this. Yes, the curry tastes well...but that's just the top layer. The inside layer is inedible. Head to the pub instead and order yourself a hearty meal of proper pie instead.
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You could go to the pub, but this is just £1.30 mah! Doesn't look too bad. Me, I like to keep a stock of tinned curries/beef goulash at home. Cook rice in my little 'fan pou', microwave the food and voila! a meal.
Or eat instant noodle lor. Maggi Mee, cepat dimasak, sedap dimakan.
Yours looks better than sixth seal's one though as the pastry has puffed up. His looks totally uncooked!
I usually have spares of instand noodles, even bread for toast but I couldn't believe that I forgot to refill the kitchen. No choice lor but to eat this.
Yeah, mine looks so much better. What kind of oven he used I wonder...?
Eurghhhh.. seriously, you guys can pop by my place anytime for a proper meal instead of this rubbish. :P
Heh. Is that an invite? ;)
hey fools the pies are nice get the steak and ale one
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hi i bought two chicken pie`s after i cooked them and started to dish them out for my husband and son i was shocked to see how little chicken was in the pie one pie had two pieces of chicken in one and three pieces in the other one i ended up giving the two pies to my husband and i made something else for myself and my son the photo on the tin does not merrit the contents kind regards mrs irene mcgeachy cumbernauld
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