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COMPETITIONS & PRODUCT REVIEWS => Product Reviews => Topic started by: Peripatetic Phil on May 09, 2018, 09:00 PM
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I had to take herself to Lidl late this afternoon, and browsing (as one does) I noticed the last remaining pack of Deluxe Lamb Rogan Josh.. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained", I thought, and added it to her trolley. When I got home I read the label more carefully, and was surprised (and pleased) to read "Succulent chunks of lamb in a spiced onion and tomato sauce, served with saffron rice". Now that last part did surprise me, so I checked the ingredients list, and sure enough saffron was listed -- OK, it came last, but it definitely appeared.. Ignoring completely the cooking instructions, I cooked the curry in my copper-bottomed frying pan with additional oil, g/g paste and kasoori methi, and the result was fine (well, better when I added lots of salt and some Khanum mixed pickles). But the rice was outstanding. I had microwaved it for three minutes in the original packaging after removing the film, covering it with a pre-warmed plate, and as I had eaten the rogan josh with a paratha, ate the rice by itself (well, with a little pickle). And it was truly superb. Not swamped with turmeric, as supermarket pulaos so often are, but delicately spiced, real basmati rice, and a definite hint of saffron. Well done Lidl.
** Phil.
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Waitrose will be gutted Phil ;D
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Waitrose will be gutted Phil ;D
The good Mr Waitrose apparently does not feel that the demographics of Bodmin are such as to justify honouring us with a branch of his eponymous emporium, preferring instead to grace the glorious cathedral city of Truro with his hallowed presence ...
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Maybe Mr Waitrose is worried about the pirates from the Jamaica Inn, Or the beast up on Bodmin moor ;D
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Waitrose will be gutted Phil ;D
The good Mr Waitrose apparently does not feel that the demographics of Bodmin are such as to justify honouring us with a branch of his eponymous emporium, preferring instead to grace the glorious cathedral city of Truro with his hallowed presence ...
Well there's no branches of Waitrose in Scotland Phil so I don't what that says about our demographics!
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Well there's no branches of Waitrose in Scotland Phil so I don't what that says about our demographics!
In this case, I don't think that demographics are the issue -- it is simply that the Waitrose kitchen failed to come up with a deep-fried Mars Bar that the management felt was of a quality that would reflect well on the brand ...
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hi Phil was it their own make?
Ed
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Yes, it was Edwin -- Deluxe is just one of many pseudo-brands that Lidl stock, all of which are in fact Lidl products. Finished it up this evening, by the way, with the remains of a Thai red chicken curry, and it was just as good as I described it on first opening.
** Phil.
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...it was truly superb. Not swamped with turmeric, as supermarket pulaos so often are, but delicately spiced, real basmati rice, and a definite hint of saffron. Well done Lidl.
I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I guess we can't all share the same tastes. I bought Lidl's rogan josh when it first came out, perhaps a year ago,. It's roughly twice the price of their standard chilled curries, like CTM, korma and Thai red. I didn't feel it was any better and I certainly didn't notice the rice being anything special.. But after reading your glowing review, I decided to give it a second try. The meat sauce part is good but so are Lidl's other curries. The rice strikes me as near-identical to the passable yellow rice included with the non-deluxe curries. I don't find it very pleasant at all
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Fair enough; all I can add is that I have never eaten a better supermarket pulao rice. I am minded to see if they do "Deluxe pulao rice" as a stand-alone side dish now.
** Phil..
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Deluxe is just one of many pseudo-brands that Lidl stock, all of which are in fact Lidl products.
Checking to see if Lidl offered saffron rice as a stand-alone side dish, I came across the "LIdl Food Academy (https://www.lidlfoodacademy.com.cy/recipe/%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CF%81%CF%8D%CE%B6%CE%B9-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%86%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BD-2/?lang=en)" site, where I found :
Aromatic rice with saffron and pine nuts -- Ingredients for 4-6 portions
2 tbsp butter, Milbona
2 cup basmati or jasmine rice, Golden Sun
2 tbsp pine nuts, Alesto
4 cups hot vegetable stock, Cusina, or hot water
1 sachet (0.1 gr) powdered Kozani saffron,
Deluxe
Freshly-ground pepper, Kania
Salt (optional), KYPARI
All of Milbona, Golden Sun, Alesto, Cusina, Kozani, Kania and Kypari are Lidl "pseudo-brands", used to create a sense of ethnic authenticity for what are in practice own-brand ingredients. What "Deluxe" is doing there I have no idea, since it does not qualify any particular ingredient.
** Phil.
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What "Deluxe" is doing there I have no idea, since it does not qualify any particular ingredient.
I imagine it's a formatting error since the saffron logically is what makes it deluxe due to its cost and the "Deluxe" is in the general vicinity of the saffron.
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Yes, I think you're right, Santa; there is a trailing comma after "saffron" that could well indicate that the "Deluxe" was intended to be run on. I now realise that I was wrong in including "Kozani" as one of Lidl's faux-brands; it is, of course. a type of saffron, and the pseudo-brand "Deluxe".
** Phil.
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2 tbsp butter, Milbona
2 cup basmati or jasmine rice, Golden Sun
2 tbsp pine nuts, Alesto
4 cups hot vegetable stock, Cusina, or hot water
1 sachet (0.1 gr) powdered Kozani saffron, Deluxe
Freshly-ground pepper, Kania
Salt (optional), KYPARI