Description: Generously filled with succulent British chicken and ham hock in a creamy sauce, wrapped in crisp, golden, buttery shortcrust pastry hand finished with a herb crumb.
Cost: £2.88 or 2 for £5.50 for a 250g pie (1 serving). I got this in their reduced section for just 50p! Bargain!!!
Cooking: 25minutes on number 4 from chilled. or 40minutes on 4 from frozen.
Verdict: First impressions? Well, saw this in their bargain reduced section for 50p and couldn't resist it. I tried another Asda "Bistro" pie a couple of weeks back and for £2.88 i felt it was over priced, but for 50p.... must be a sign from god!
Cooking time wasn't too bad. This was frozen so we were looking at 40minutes until it was ready.
I cooked it up with the usual potatoes & peas. With a lashing of HP sauce on side!
On the plate, the pie looked good. Cutting it open and the pie smelt gorgeous. Nice creamy sauce. In fact it was very creamy. I couldn't see any lumps of meat in it at all. I found a couple of small pieces of ham hock and one small piece of chicken. So I was not impressed. Not another meatless pie surely? However, I tucked into it and wow, it was really tasty. It tasted of roast chicken, boiled ham and a lovely creamy chicken soup sort of thick sauce. The crust was nice, crispy and very filling. It didn't fall apart when cut open and was very stodgy. Whilst it looked like a small pie, it was very filling.
Overall, I was reasonably impressed. It shouldn't taste so good when you cant see any meat in it. But it does. Maybe its full of flavourings or maybe they just liquidise it all before they shove the filling in the pie? For the money though, its a lot of loot for a pie, but if you can find it reduced like I did for 50p, or even if it was £1 then its a no brainer. Its certainly a pie id consider buying again. Ive marked it down for lack of visible meat, but the sheer tastiness of this pie justifies the score.
Calorie count is 748 calories per pie.
Rating? 7 out of 10.
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