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The Curry Me Home gourmet pie

Created by Frida Sumardjo

The Curry Me Home gourmet pie trumped the competition in the Create the pie you love competition. Curry Me Home is a yummy combination of lamb, onion, tomato, tikka paste, chicken stock, coriander and cheese and leaves a great after taste.

Try out the latest gourmet pie creation at a Wild Bean Cafe today.

The Judging

It was a tough – but tasty – job for the judges to choose the winning pie. The simple and authentic flavours were a hit with the judges.
Frida loves cheese full stop, so created a pie that was cheesy without too many vegetables. The authenticity of this pie is sure to delight pie lovers.

The Finalists

The Curry Me Home was up against two other delicious tasting pies:
The Three B – a combination of lean beef, bacon and blue cheese was a tasty runner-up created by Bianca Wigley. Bianca was inspired by her husband’s culinary efforts with this pie creation.
Pumpkin Delight - created by Susie Robertson was the other finalist. This pie featured pumpkin, spinach, caramelized red onion, garlic and gave a full bodied flavour.

Wild Bean Cafe hope to bring out the other finalists pies in the near future, but in the meantime, Curry Me Home is now available in-store – so why not try some Gourmet goodness at a Wild Bean Cafe near you?

Pie Fun Facts

Did you know?

That Kiwis eat 67 million pies a year – that’s 183,000 pies every day!
That New Zealand’s meat pie won its division in the Football Foodie Cup! Run by an LA-based blogger, the online international poll was on best traditional cuisine – with 56% the meat pie beat Italy’s pizza, Slovakia’s potato pancakes and Paraguay’s corn bread
That the bakers to the Egyptian pharaohs put nuts, honey, and fruits in bread dough, which was a primitive form of pastry
That the first pie recipe was published by the Romans and was for a rye-crusted goat cheese and honey pie
That pies first appeared in England around the twelfth century. The crust of the pie was referred to as a 'coffin' and there was more crust than filling. Often these pies were made using fowl and the fowl legs were left to hang over the side of the dish and used as handles
That in ‘old England’ open-crust pies – with no tops or lids – were known as "traps". These held meats and sauce and were baked more like a modern casserole but with no pan – the crust itself was the pan, which made the pastry tough and practically inedible
That English tradition credits making the first cherry pie to Queen Elizabeth I

Wild Bean Cafe Gourmet Pie tasting facts

Our gourmet pies have many tasty, tempting fillings. They are baked fresh on-site every day, so you know when you get a Wild Bean Cafe pie, it will be fresh, hot and delicious.

Gourmet Butter Chicken Pie
Made with tender New Zealand chicken and folded into a creamy mix of coconut cream, fresh capsicum and onion. The added taste of mild curry, spices and tomato paste makes this a Kiwi favourite.

Gourmet Bacon & Egg Pie
With diced New Zealand bacon, a whole egg, a smattering of cheese, tomato and onion, it’s got all the makings of an authentic, homemade pie.

Beef, Bacon Double Cheese
Lean diced beef and bacon, with double the cheese to double the flavour, and a dash of soy for taste.

Peppersteak
Lean New Zealand beef cooked to perfection. With cracked pepper and a secret savoury sauce, this pie is deliciously spicy and not for the fainthearted.

Steak & Cheese
A gourmet Kiwi favourite, with lean diced New Zealand beef mixed through with tasty cheese, savoury sauce and a hint of nutmeg.

Thai Chicken
An exotic flavour explosion with tender New Zealand chicken, folded into a creamy Thai mix of coconut cream, fresh capsicum, mushroom, onion and garlic, finished with mild curry and spices to give it that lingering taste.