Trying a New Chefs Special Curry.. IT ANNOYED ME!!

How's everyone doing out there? I hope you're all spot on. Now I've been shopping to Iceland. Come and have a look what I got. I was in Iceland having a look around and I seen this was new. Chef's Special Menu Luxury Chicken Tikka Cheese Masala. No emulsifiers, artificial ingredients or preservatives. It's got a one chili rating. It's 400 grams and there is the lovely serving suggestion. I picked a few others up as well. They do a deal on them. If you buy three it's So let's take a closer look at the packaging. Yeah, Iceland are at it again with another gimmick aren't they? I've actually reviewed the Luxury Chicken Tikka Masala many moons ago. Yeah, I think they were about three pounds back then. Yeah, it's Chef's Special Menu. Not just another way for saying I'll put another quid on. Or is that just me? Anyway, let's go around the back. It's frozen. We've got some spiel there. We've got Luxury Chicken Tikka Cheese Masala. Cooked seared Tikka marinated chicken breast pieces in a spicy creamy Tikka Masala sauce with a spicy mozzarella and cheddar cheese mix. There's the ingredients, the allergens in there in bowls. We've got seared Tikka marinated chicken, 28%. Chicken breast is 93%. We've got single cream, 14%. Mozzarella cheese, 8%. What else we got in there? Extra mature cheddar cheese is 2%. Not a lot. We've got some nutritional information. If you're interested in that, you can pause it and study it away. So where's to cook for best results? Cook from frozen. Like I said, this is, or you can do it in the oven. It's up to you. It really is. It's a ping meal or you can stick it in the oven. If you've got all other bits and bobs to go in the space, then yeah, you can do it in that, can't you? With everything else. Right. I might have covered everything. Let's go around the sides. Cheese, cheese. They stick. I do like cheese. I'll be honest. Yeah. Yes. I actually say, you know, stick cheese in everything. It makes it taste better. We'll see. We'll see. So let's get this open and see what we've got. Cheese and butter. I always say, yeah, butter, stick butter in it as well. Yeah. Or cream. You're on the winner. Let's, let's get stuck straight in. Let's have a look, see what we've got. Oh, we've got, we can see the floor. Look, we can see the bottom. You can see your seared marinated chicken breast there. Look and all this stuff on top. Is that the cheese? Right. I think what we're going to do, it's a ping meal, this one. Now I've only got this. I did notice a few others in the range as well, which I've picked up and I'm going to review, but I can only eat one curry at a time. I don't want to waste food you see. Right. I'm going to, I'm going to pierce the film lid several times. Like it says, I'll spare you that and then we'll pop it in the microwave. So mine's going in here. It's 800 Watts, goes in for eight minutes. There is a procedure. After five minutes, you have to take it out, give it a stir and put it in for the remainder at three minutes. So that's what I'll do. I'll tell you what, it done half smell good. It's had five minutes. We have to do that. We have to give it a stir and let's do the seal peel test. Oh yes. Oh yeah. Yeah. That was all cheese on the top. You can see it now. Look, it's, it's smelling absolutely fabulous. It really is stood next to the micro spillage still next to the microwave there. And if it, if it tastes as good as it smells, we're on a winner. We are on a winner for taste. However, there's no rice. There's no other bits and bobs. This is what, this is like the main meal, isn't it? Right. It's going in for another three minutes. It's done. So let's get this cover off. Smells absolutely fantastic. It does. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. So no rice to get your own rice. We'll get it in there. Oh yeah. We'll have a look, see how many bits of chicken we get with it. Put that oil slick there. Fatty, tasty, slick of goodness. Look at that. It's a, it's very, very sort of runny. Yeah. That's for sure. Yeah. So there's two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight bits, eight bits of chicken. Right. Let's go and try it. Right. Let's see what this is. Like I said, it's quite runny. Yeah. You definitely need, you definitely need rice chips, half and half rice chips. Yeah. And a naan bread to dip in. Smelling really good. You can see the mozzarella look. I don't know. Do you want that? What's that? That's got to be mozzarella, hasn't it? Yeah. I thought it was a hair for a minute. It's not one of mine. It's a mozzarella strand. I'd prefer to think more the other way around. It's a high percentage of mozzarella and a low percentage of mature cheddar. I'd have liked it the other way around personally. I've not tried it yet, but straight off the bat. Oh, that bit of chicken was like a bit of rubber. It was. Yeah. That mozzarella is stuck to the spoon. It's not smooth when I took it off with my lips. It's just all gone rough. Let's see if I can get, I know what you're saying, doing it in the microwave. What do you expect? The chicken's going to be like rubber, isn't it? Let's be fair. You know, it's that sort of rubbery chicken that's done in the microwave. Never good in the microwave. Yeah. It's, it's creamy. It is tasty. It's creamy, very runny, very mild. Spice is a mild, but tasty. It's just that cheese. It just doesn't, it's not going for me. That's just, I'm picking it up and there's cheese strings coming out everywhere. The cheese taste is very, very, very mild. And basically all it's doing is hampering me with the cheese hanging down like that. It's just getting in the way. It's a nuisance. That was a better bit of chicken. Yeah, that was a better bit of chicken. Tasted like, well, I couldn't taste chicken. I couldn't taste chicken, no. But it wasn't like rubber, put it that way. It's not massively cheesy by any stretch. Absolutely not. No, the only thing that the cheese is doing is annoying me. It's just, yeah, it's annoying me. Go on. That's a not very good bit of chicken. Go on, no. Go on, that was like rubber. That bit was like rubber and hard as well. Not very nice. Go on. The sauce is lovely. Forget about the cheese. Total waste, total waste of time. Total waste of time. Mozzarella. Come on. Yeah. Forget about buying that. I wouldn't buy it again. Total gimmick. It's a shame because it smelled absolutely fantastic. It did. That cheese now is just stuck in all my teeth. That mozzarella. Not good. You might like it. It's just my opinion. That's all. I've showed you. Four quid if you're to buy it on its own or you can get three for a tenner. I hope the other two are better. I hope they are. The chicken's poor done in the microwave. It might be a lot better done in the oven. But as it is, it's, I'm going to mark it poor. It's getting a four out of ten and I wouldn't buy it again. That's a shame. It's a shame that. Normally the bits, it says it's seared as well. I didn't see any sort of charring on the chicken. Charring chicken. Yeah. It's rock hard. Chicken's rock hard. Well, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't buy that again. You might like it. You might like it, but just leave things as they are. Forget about the cheese. That's my opinion. Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. If you've got any recommendations, let me know. I've got a community section there. If you'd like to post your video, sorry, post a video, post a picture of the food. If you see it in the supermarket, you can post it to me and let us know what supermarket it is. And I'll try and get hold of it for you and review it. Whether the supermarkets have it in. Yeah. So thanks. Thanks very much. All the best. And I'll get back to you on the next one.