Asda Vindaloo Ready Meal

[Zaxxon]

Please don't start with the usual PH fake snobbery.
Has anyone tried this?

It's possibly the best supermarket curry ready meal I have had. Yes I know that homemade is better but sometimes you don't have 2 hours to prep and make it.

Proper hot ( I can manage 2 drops of Blairs 3am without crying) but I'm still feeling the burn of this meal 20 mins later, not stupid hot, but surprising for a supermarket.

Very tasty, nice thick gravy and tender good sized lumps of chicken.
One of the best Vindaloo's I have had, not better than a good resturant though.

And no, I didn't walk round ASDA, it was delivered, so I can still keep my fleet of sportscars and company directorships right?

[blackburnlad]

totally agree with you ive tried a few of the asda currys and most of them are decent there madras and tikka masala are good aswell

[bazking69]

They must have upped their game because the last time I tried Asda curries, and granted it was probably about 5 years ago, they were deeply average and full of crap tasteless meat.

[Austin.J]

I discovered the madras one not so long ago, bloody fantastic they are! Going to try the vindaloo one when I'm feeling brave (drunk)

[Hoover.]

not had one of their curries, which I might make special visit to try based on above, as not had a decent curry from a
supermaket....BUT the few ready meals I have had from there have been tasteless, so this may be pleasant turn up for the books

[deadmau5]

I assume you mean the ones from the curry counter?

[deadmau5]

[blackburnlad]

yeah curry counter and the ones you get a meal for two in the bag with some nans

[bint]

We have been known to get these for the surprisingly great taste, spice level, & value for money. However we did notice their takeaway packs don't include a Naan bread anymore!

[anonymous-user]

i am not a big fan of super hot curries but found this quite palatable, therefore not that hot.

[sgrimshaw]

They have done a Phall in the past .... that was very tasty

[Hoover.]

arrrr right curry counter are different to what I call ready meals

[Chrisgr31]

Asda do a selection of pre-packed curry/chinese takeaway bags. However they are filled with items from the curry counter.

Alternatively you can choose your own selection from the curry counter and its excellent on the tates v value for money scale.

Morrisons curry bags are ok (on the taste v value for money scale), although they have recently increased the price and reduced the contents

[Pints]

Austin.J said:

I discovered the madras one not so long ago, bloody fantastic they are! Going to try the vindaloo one when I'm feeling brave (drunk)

+1
We regularly have the madras, but I'll have to keep my eyes open for the vindaloo next time. I didn't know they did one.

[m8rky]

Slightly off topic but a few years ago I had a reasonable scam regarding Tesco Vindaloo curries as they did not contain any potato.Vindaloo means "with potato" I enjoyed the arguments with customer services regarding the meaning of the word and that they were selling items not as described.

Had a few free curries out of that.

[Pints]

bint said:

We have been known to get these for the surprisingly great taste, spice level, & value for money. However we did notice their takeaway packs don't include a Naan bread anymore!

At our ASDA they still include naan bread but they've stopped adding onion bahjis.

[aspender]

m8rky said:

Vindaloo means "with potato"

No it doesn't. The dish is Portugese in origin and roughly translates to wine and garlic. Perhaps you should tell Tescos they were right.

[m8rky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindaloo

Mmmm yes interesting,an Indian actually told me about the meaning so perhaps he was wrong.As mentioned in the wiki article there is a mistaken belief about the inclusion of potato in the dish.I stand corrected and happy in the knowledge I baffled Tesco with bullst.

[Zaxxon]

Well on the back of that and the rest of the food supplied we have now switched from Sainsbury's to Asda.

Curry was the best supermarket one I have had, better than some restuarant currys.
Pizza was just brilliant (with a couple of spicy style enhancements and Anchovies)
Mozzarella was far superior to Sainsbury's (which is nasty and rubbery).
All the rest was good quality on par or better than Sainsbury's

Veg was as good as anywhere else.
We will still use the local Waitrose for any special meals or specific ingredients and the local SA butcher for specialist meat, so we havn't gone total chav.

So has Asda improved?
Is the snobbery about Asda not warranted or it it regarding the customers who shop in the store.....or online
Or has Sainsbury's masivly dropped it's standards over the last few years?

[T84]

ASDA has always been pretty good, it's just snobbery. Their pizza counter is excellent as well.