It's National Curry Week - so what better time than to try out some of the Indian takeaway deals on offer at the supermarket.
Whether you're cutting back on eating out, or simply can't be bothered getting the ingredients to make your own, these packs are an all-in-one solution.
And you actually get quite a lot for your money - especially when they're on offer, which they have been this week - £6.50 at Asda and £8 as part of Clubcard meal deal, with either a pack of Cokes or Cobra beers.
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With only one variety available in the Asda I visited, I bought the same thing from Tesco, a pack containing one chicken tikka masala and one chicken korma.
As Tesco also had a second pack, chicken tikka masala and chicken jalfrezi, I thought we'd give that one a whirl too.
In each pack you also get pilau rice, onion bhajis and naan breads. Both weigh around the same - Asda 1.32kg and Tesco 1.3kg - but looking at them, with slightly bigger naan breads at Tesco and six bhajis compared with Asda's (only slightly larger) four, you'd think Tesco would be the heaviest.
It made little difference though and there was plenty to go round.
Heating them is pretty simple, but whereas microwaving is the quickest and probably cheapest option, you need the oven on for the bhajis anyway, so it makes more sense to put them all in at once. Plus you have to microwave each container separately so the time doing that soon mounts up.
On flavour we preferred Asda's tikka, as with Tesco's you could taste tomato more than anything else. Yet with the korma, it was Tesco that came out on top with its delicious rich coconut flavour oozing out.
We didn't all try the jalfrezi, not of all us like the spicier curries, but it got the thumbs up from the spice lovers among us.
As for the bhajis we had a bit of a battle on our hands - two for team Tesco and two for Asda. The fact that one of the Tesco ones fell apart slightly in the oven didn't really matter as, like I say, we had six of them.
In truth they're not that different, especially when smothered in curry, but ask any family to sit around a table and pick their favourite anything and you'll rarely get a unanimous response.
Overall we had few complaints about either and they're both a fraction of the price you'd pay if ordered a takeaway or visited a restaurant.
OK, so they're not curry house standard, but they're plenty good enough for my house when we feel like a fakeaway. We just need a double korma pack from Tesco and double tikka from Asda and we'll all be happy.
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