Our Tesco shop includes a variety of Tesco's own vegetarian meat alternatives. We picked these kievs as we definitely enough a good kiev.
Upon appearance they look exactly like a regular kiev, I'd even go to say that the texture is very similar to a meat version (processed kind not homemade). I guess the meat versions are so packed with breadcrumbs and re-shaped that they resemble the same texture and look as the soya version.
When I tried the first mouthful I was surprised at how enjoyable the texture was, they seem to have many negative reviews over them being bland and tasteless. I think it actually had a unique taste that I couldn't exactly pin point. It wasn't bad but it wasn't an amazing taste. The more I ate the more I got this 'taste'.
The cheese was quite disappoint. In the picture, as you can see, it looks runny and gooey. However, our cheese just sort of sat there. It was soft but it didn't run down when you cut the kiev open nor did it taste particularly cheese/garlic like. I didn't really enjoy the cheese, I think if you're going to put cheese in something meat alternative, it should be a good gooey cheese. Even mozzarella would have been great. I've also had Tesco' own meat version kievs in the past and the cheese in those are perfect. I'd even say just do a garlic butter version so it gives the soya some flavour.
I'd buy these again, unless I found a tastier alternative. However, I wouldn't exactly go crazy for the soft cheese. However, looking from a health perspective in terms of meat vs meat free, the difference is astounding.
I'd say that having something a little less tasty isn't worth the health pros and cons but when you see a difference like this, it's hard to deny meat really isn't the healthiest option for us to eat. Even if you have a balance diet. (I'm sure homemade would be healthier, I understand this is a processed kiev).
When I tried the first mouthful I was surprised at how enjoyable the texture was, they seem to have many negative reviews over them being bland and tasteless. I think it actually had a unique taste that I couldn't exactly pin point. It wasn't bad but it wasn't an amazing taste. The more I ate the more I got this 'taste'.
The cheese was quite disappoint. In the picture, as you can see, it looks runny and gooey. However, our cheese just sort of sat there. It was soft but it didn't run down when you cut the kiev open nor did it taste particularly cheese/garlic like. I didn't really enjoy the cheese, I think if you're going to put cheese in something meat alternative, it should be a good gooey cheese. Even mozzarella would have been great. I've also had Tesco' own meat version kievs in the past and the cheese in those are perfect. I'd even say just do a garlic butter version so it gives the soya some flavour.
I'd buy these again, unless I found a tastier alternative. However, I wouldn't exactly go crazy for the soft cheese. However, looking from a health perspective in terms of meat vs meat free, the difference is astounding.
Meat free has 0% fat and saturates while a chicken version is almost unbelievable; this is just a garlic butter kiev too, not even a cheese one!
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