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Greek Pastitsio Ready Meal - Fresh, Never Frozen (350g)
Greek Pastitsio Ready Meal - Fresh, Never Frozen (350g)100 in stock
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Product Description
Product Description
The Sunday pasta bake of Greek home kitchens, in a single 350g tray
Pastitsio is what a Greek kitchen makes when it wants pasta to be the main course, not the first one: thick tubular durum wheat pasta laid flat in a tray, a fine minced meat sauce worked down into the tubes, béchamel poured over the top and baked until the surface colours. Amvrosia makes it in Thessaloniki the same way, in a 350g tray, and chills it rather than freezing it. Pasta is the largest ingredient at 32%, with 16,1% minced beef and pork of EU origin through the middle and 1,1% extra virgin olive oil in the sauce. What arrives is one sealed portion that has never been through a freezer.
Pasta is also the reason freezing does not work here. Thawed pasta softens, and the tubes lose the shape that holds the sauce, while chilled they stay firm enough that a slice cuts cleanly and the open tubes are visible in the section. The meat is ground deliberately fine so that it works into the pasta instead of sitting above it, and the béchamel sets into a thin golden top in the oven rather than separating. The seasoning is plain in the Greek sense: tomato, onion, parsley and olive oil, nothing sharp.
A 350g tray carries 25g of protein and 536 kcal, which puts it among proper main courses rather than snacks, with starch and meat arriving in the same tray. One thing is worth knowing before you open it: pastitsio is a pasta dish with a layer of meat, not a meat dish with pasta around it, and that ratio is the recipe rather than a shortcut. It is also what makes the format work midweek. One tray, one plate, one fork, four minutes.
No preservatives, and chilled rather than frozen: how that works
Fresh food ordered online always raises the same question, which is how it keeps without either a freezer or a preservative. The answer here is the packaging. The tray is sealed in a protective atmosphere, and that is what keeps the dish without anything being added to it.
- No preservatives in the recipe. The ingredient list is the whole story.
- Keep refrigerated below +7°C, and once opened, eat within 24 hours.
- Never frozen at any point, which is why the pasta keeps its bite and the béchamel its texture. The use-by date is printed on the tray.
How to use it
- Oven, 180°C for 13 to 15 minutes once preheated. Pierce the film in two spots first; remove it before serving. This is the version with the crust.
- Microwave: 3 to 4 minutes at 800W, same piercing step. Faster, softer on top. Keep the tray clear of the oven element and the grill.
- A weeknight main on its own, or half a tray as a first course before grilled meat or fish.
- With a green salad and a piece of feta, which is how it is eaten in Greece rather than with bread.
Nutritional Components
Nutritional Components
A full main course in a 350g tray: what is actually in it
Pastitsio is built on three components in fixed proportion: 32% boiled durum wheat pasta, 16,1% minced beef and pork of EU origin, and a milk-based béchamel. That ratio is what the Greek recipe calls for, and it is also what the nutritional profile reflects, with more carbohydrate than a vegetable-based tray and a higher protein density than the moussaka in the same range.
What the numbers mean in practice
- A complete plate: pasta, meat and milk in one tray. Nothing else is needed to make it a meal.
- 24,9g of protein per tray: 7,1g per 100g, from durum wheat, minced meat and milk. Protein supplies 18,6% of the energy in this dish.
- 536 kcal per tray: a full main course, comparable to a restaurant portion of baked pasta rather than a light lunch.
- No preservatives: the tray holds because it is sealed in a protective atmosphere, not because anything was added to the recipe.
- Salt 0,85g per 100g: 3,0g in a full tray. Worth knowing if you are watching sodium, since this is a seasoned oven dish and not a low-salt product.
Nutritional values per 100g
- Energy: 643 kJ / 153 kcal
- Fat: 6,0g — of which saturates: 1,8g
- Carbohydrates: 16,5g — of which sugars: 1,9g
- Fibre: 1,5g
- Protein: 7,1g
- Salt: 0,85g
Per 350g tray: 2.251 kJ / 536 kcal, 21,0g fat, 6,3g saturates, 57,8g carbohydrates, 6,7g sugars, 5,3g fibre, 24,9g protein, 3,0g salt.
Ingredients
32% boiled pasta (water, durum wheat semolina), milk, 16,1% minced meat (EU) (50% beef, 50% pork), tomato, béchamel mix (modified starch, wheat flour, palm oil, cooking salt, dehydrated glucose syrup, milk proteins, colouring: carotenes), onion, 1,1% extra virgin olive oil, double-concentrated tomato paste, sunflower oil, cooking salt, parsley, egg yolk, modified starch, spices.
Allergens
Contains milk, wheat (gluten) and egg. May contain traces of peanuts and other nuts, sesame seeds, mustard, celery, soybeans, sulphites, lupin, fish, shrimps and crabs.
Produced and packed by Amvrosia SA, Sindos Industrial Zone NB6, Thessaloniki. All figures are taken from the printed label on the tray, which prevails over any other source.
Useful Information
Useful Information
Storage guide: below +7°C, and what the sealed tray does
This is a fresh, chilled dish, not an ambient or frozen one, and everything about how it's kept follows from that. It travels cold, it lives in the fridge, and the sealed film is what protects it until you open it.
How to store it correctly
- Keep refrigerated below +7°C: put it in the fridge as soon as it arrives, in the coldest part rather than the door.
- Do not freeze it: pasta and béchamel are the two things freezing damages most, and a chilled ready meal is not built to be frozen at home.
- Leave the film sealed: the protective atmosphere inside the tray is doing the preservation work, and once the seal is broken, that protection ends.
Freshness timeline
- Unopened, refrigerated: keeps until the use-by date printed on the tray. Check that date when the parcel arrives.
- Opened: eat within 24 hours, kept refrigerated.
- Heated: eat straight away. Do not reheat a second time.
Suggested preparation
- Remove the outer cardboard sleeve.
- Pierce the sealing film in two spots with a fork.
- Oven: 180°C in a preheated oven for 13 to 15 minutes. Temperature and time vary with the oven.
- Microwave: 3 to 4 minutes at 800W.
- Remove the film and serve. The tray must not come into contact with the oven element or the grill.
Product details
- Format: single sealed tray, ready to heat
- Net weight: 350g
- Origin: made and packed in Greece, Sindos Industrial Zone, Thessaloniki
- Producer: Amvrosia SA
- Storage: refrigerated, below +7°C, never frozen
- Allergens: contains milk, wheat (gluten) and egg
Why a chilled tray rather than a frozen one
Baked pasta is one of the dishes freezing treats worst. Water in the pasta and in the béchamel forms crystals, the tubes soften as they thaw, and the sauce separates, which is why frozen pasta bakes tend to reach the table uniformly soft. A chilled tray skips all of that: the dish is baked in Greece, cooled, sealed, and the only heat it sees afterwards is yours. The trade is a shorter window, not a lesser dish.
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