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I tried curry from three supermarkets to see which one does the tastiest
Lancashire Post
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09/10/2024
Watch digital reporter Emma Downey test out curries from Aldi, Sainsbury's and M&S for National Curry Week and which one she rated as the best.
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Hi everyone, so this week is National Curry Week and I don't know about you but I don't
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need an excuse to eat curry. If it was the last meal on earth that would be my go-to,
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I could literally eat it all day every day. Usually I go for a gel freezie or a madras
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or something with a bit more of a kick but I decided to venture to three different stores
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and go out of my comfort zone and get three things, three different dishes that I don't
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usually go for in the spirit of National Curry Week. So let's take a look at what I
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bought and I'm going to price match and taste test and see if the most expensive one is
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actually the nicest. So let's take a look at what I've bought.
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So the first shop I went to was Aldi and I picked up their butter chicken, the specially
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selected gastro one. And then I've paired it, or I'm going to pair it with some plain
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basmati rice because I feel like butter chicken has enough sort of flavours in it, it doesn't
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really need a spicy rice or a flavoured rice. Second one, so this is the most expensive
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by the way, this one is, I think it was about £7. So this is M&S's range, Carolyn King
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Prawn Curry. So I just thought, do you know what, let's try a madly of different ones.
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So we've got chicken and prawn and then I've paired the prawn one with some Pailu rice.
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See what it's like. And then obviously seared on my, or keep it on my spicy side, I wanted
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to try this from Sainsbury's. And I thought I would sort of marinate some diced beef shin
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and put them both in the slow cooker for a few hours. And then instead of my usual, I
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usually have a red wine. I just, I'm literally obsessed with these at the minute. I don't
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know if you've seen my last video. And I've tried this one previously, my favourite one
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was cucumber and mint, not anymore. This is honestly, this is unreal if you haven't tried
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it. So this will be nice and refreshing with all these curries that will last me a week.
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But yeah, so I'm going to try all these and I will get back to you and let you know if
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the most expensive one is actually the nicest.
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So as you can see, the final product with a little bit of garlic naan bread. So this
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is the prawn one from M&S with some Pailu rice. And then this is the slow cooker beef
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curry, which looks lovely. It looks like it's nice. Melt off the fork, beef, and then
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the butter chicken from Aldi. So let's see which one is the nicest.
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Okay so now I have sampled all three curries and I have enough to do me probably the end
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of this week, starting next week. I'm actually very shocked at which one I would place that
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number one. It wasn't what I had originally thought. So the butter chicken one from Aldi,
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which is £3.65 has actually come out the winner, which again, I'm very surprised by.
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It's just full of flavour and you know, it was akin to something you would get in a restaurant,
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I personally think. Then second up was the Sainsbury's one. This one here, the Farran
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Goan curry, if I pronounced that right, which is the one I put in the slow cooker. I needed
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it for about four hours on high. It was lovely because it's more my sort of curry as I love
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spice. So it had a nice kick to it, I would say. It was a blend between a gel freezie
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and a madras by several ways. And then lastly, which I'm very disappointed in this, I think,
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ta-da! So this one from M&S that was £7, the king prawn curry. I honestly was expecting so
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much more. I find that it wasn't, for £7 I would expect it to be set apart from the rest of the
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other two, which are half the price, but I just find it quite bland. I didn't think there was
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much flavour to it. And also it's quite watery. So yeah, I'm very disappointed in the M&S
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range, as I say. I wanted it at that price it should be of restaurant quality, but this time
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it just fell short. So yeah, guys, if you're after a curry that won't break the bank,
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the butter chicken one from Aldi does the trick. Happy National Curry Week!
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