Description: Tender braised beef pie with cracked black pepper and onion in a rich sauce
Cooking: 25minutes from chilled on number 6.
Verdict: First impressions? I happened to be in Morrisons and saw this in the pie isle. Never seen this make before and the packaging looked really cool, so I just had to try them out as they seem to be new on the market. They had a Chicken & Chorizo pie and this Peppered Steak Pie on the shelf, so I bought both. Will try the Steak one today and Chicken later in the week.
In the oven it went from chilled, whilst I stuck some boiled potatoes on and for a change some broccoli instead of my normal benchmark peas.
Out the oven and its quite impressive, looks quite substantial for a single pie compared to others ive tried. Cutting open and there was a generous amount of gravy and a perfect amount of steak. No scrimping here. The pie casing was very tasty, nice, solid, and held the contents in perfectly. The crust had crushed black pepper on it, which must be where the peppered bit comes from as there was no pepper inside the pie. The actual contents however I was a bit disappointed with. The steak, whilst nice chunks and plenty of them, they weren't as tender or as tasty as I expected. Also, the gravy, whilst again, plenty of it for a change compared to other similar pies, it just wasn't tasty as I expected which was a big shame.
All in all, I was a bit disappointed. I had high expectations, and they have got quite a few things right, such as the gravy and amount of steak, but the flavour just didn't do it for me. But, for £1 you cant go wrong, so give it a go!
Calorie count is 512 calories per pie, which isn't bad at all.
Rating? 6.0 out of 10.
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