Samosa Rice? “That sounds nice” I thought – so I bought it to try it. I spotted this in Aldi. It’s an Aldi Samosa Rice, under their Worldwide Foods label. It cost 65p.

I do like spicy food, I like Indian food – I had high hopes that this might have “a nice taste”. I didn’t need it to be authentic samosa flavoured rice in a microwave pouch. I just wanted it to have “a nice taste”.

So did it?

Aldi Samosa Rice Cooking Instructions

This just needed to have the top snipped and to be put into the microwave oven for 2 minutes.

Once it’s been heated through, simply tip the rice out of the pouch into your bowl!

Samosa Rice Ingredients:

Cooked long grain rice (74%) and onions, carrots, tomato puree, onion puree, dried coriander leaves, garlic powder, black pepper, dried red peppers, dried garlic, paprika powder, Nigella seeds, fenugreek seeds, ground black pepper, chilli powder, oregano powder.

Aldi Samosa Rice Review

I didn’t like it 🙂 I really didn’t like it. It’s not spicy, but it’s also got no taste that makes you think “mmm this is nice”. It’s just flavoured rice. I was disappointed.

Would You Buy Again?

No. It’s not worth it. I had high hopes, even medium hopes would’ve been a win. I love samosas – this did not remind me of any samosa I’ve eaten, ever.

It’s just not worth bothering with.

Serve Samosa Rice With

So, what can I do? A bowl of non-descript rice – I had a couple of boiled eggs in the fridge, so made some quick Chinese Mayflower Sauce and turned it into an Egg Curry.