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Pieminister’s gluten-free Mooless Moo crowned UK’s best pie
A gluten-free and meat-free Pieminister pie has been crowned the Supreme Champion at the British Pie Awards.
It is the first time ever that a pie in the free-from category has taken the overall crown, with the jackfruit dish beating almost 1000 entries in the annual competition held in Melton Mowbray.
Mooless Moo is a jackfruit ‘steak’, gluten-free craft ale and black pepper pie, and one of three gluten-free pies made by Pieminister at their factory in Brentry.
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Chairman of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association and host of the British Pie Awards, Matthew O’Callaghan, said that the Mooless Moo “was a superb pie, it looked good, had a nice even golden bake”.
O’Callaghan said: “The pastry was crunchy complimented by the moist filling which had ‘bite’ and the balance of flavours in the pie was just right.
“Up to now, gluten-free pies were always compared unfavourably with other pies. With this pie, gluten-free pies are now equal to any other pie.
“Being vegetarian and gluten-free, Pieminister’s Mooless Pie is an ‘everybody’s pie’, be they vegetarian or meat eater, gluten tolerant or intolerant.
“Serve this at a meal and almost everyone’s a winner! Congratulations Pieminister!”
The Pieminister factory on Charlton Road in Brentry – photo: Martin Booth
But not everyone is happy. Simon Bell, who owns a butcher’s in London, told the Sun “it’s outrageous that a traditional meat-based pie didn’t win”.
He said: “It feels like the competition organisers are trying too hard to be woke. There’s such a wide and varied choice of meat pies they could have gone for instead of this one.
“Although, Pieminister do have a reputation for making very tasty pies.”
Main photo: Pieminister
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