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Maketu Pies, made in the Bay of Plenty, and distributed to fine food outlets, for you to enjoy.
Available in a wide variety of flavours, there's a pie for everyone.
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Maketu Steak & Cheese pie
Maketu Vegetable pie
Maketu Bacon & Egg - Single Serve
Maketu Smoked Fish Pie
Maketu Chicken Pie
Maketu Steak Pie - Single Serve
Maketu Whoppa Roll - Single Serve
Maketu Mince Pie - Single Serve
Maketu Sausage Roll - Single Serve
Maketu Steak & Mushroom - Single Serve
Maketu Butter Chicken Pie
Maketu Lamb & Mint Pie
Maketu Mussel Pie
Maketu Steak & Kidney Pie
Maketu Curry Mince Pie
Maketu Chilli Beef and Cheese pie
Maketu Steak & Onion pie
Maketu Pepper Steak pie
Maketu Steak & Vegetable pie
Maketu Apple pie
Maketu Traditional Mince pie
Maketu Potato Top pie
Sunday Best - Prime Beef & Blue Cheese Pie
Sunday Best - Bacon, Egg and Pesto
Maketu Chilli Beef Roll
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Mince and cheese pies have always been my favourite type of pie, but I must admit that I wasn't overly impressed with Maketu's version. With very little cheese to be found, the mince was quite gluggy and jelly like, and rather lacking in flavour. As usual though, the pastry was lovely, even after being through the microwave (which usually has a tendency to turn the pastry into soggy mess.
Overall- quite a disappointing result!
Not a great fan of Mince-n-Cheese actually, however this pie was above standards for sure.
After a recent chat with the sales rep, I find that these pies are made with genuine beef tallow pasty, which has been folded and rolled 2000 times through the rolling machine, which would explain the extremely thin, flaky pastry which still retains plenty of flavour and a light texture. No pastry-leather on these fine pies folks!
Though M'n'C is rather tame to my jaded tastebuds, I still found this to be a very worthwhile pie.
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