"Astoria", cheese sauce: producer, reviews

Of course, you can spend half an hour and more free time, pokolzovat over the stove and prepare the sauce for your favorite dishes. But modern man is so busy! Why not use the offers of different brands and not buy ready-made sauce? Mayonnaise, creamy and tomato gravies are produced by many concerns. And one of them is Astoria. Cheese sauce in its performance, we today and consider.

Who is Astoria and can you trust it? Below you will find all the information about this manufacturer. Cheese sauce is not the only child of the company, and we will acquaint you with the assortment of products of Astoria. And what do consumers say about the sauces of this brand? We have analyzed the reviews and are ready to provide you with a brief digest for your reference.

Astoria sauce: manufacturer

What is hidden behind the mysterious abbreviation NMZHK, which can be seen on each package of products of mayonnaise ripening? This is not a secret. It is easy to decipher: Nizhny Novgorod oil-fat plant. This joint-stock company produces not only sauces under the trademark "Astoria". The list of his products includes mayonnaise "Ryaba", "Sdobri" and "Gentle" margarines "Housewife", "Creamer", "Znatin", "Creamy home", spreads "Kremlevskoe" and "Lenten", ketchup and tomato paste, Seeds and nuts «Stepanovka», fish snacks «Far from wives», jam «I love a holiday» and even children's soap and coconut oil.

Users appreciate the products of the Nizhny Novgorod oil-and-fat plant, including Astoria sauces. The reviews characterize them as delicious, with a natural smell, like cooked houses. Users also appreciated the extensive assortment of such sauces. For each dish, you can choose the right sauce.

Astoria sauces. Short review

It is noteworthy that the manufacturer himself makes recommendations on the use of a particular gravy. Some sauces are called "To dumplings", "Carbonara" (to the same pasta), and also "Barbecue" (to grilled vegetables or meat).

On the reverse side of the packaging, the manufacturer explains in detail the gustatory characteristics of the sauce. And the figure itself shows which dishes this sauce suits most.

It should be said that there are several names of beer related to cheese, which are produced under the brand name "Astoria". Parmesan sauce will add a light spicy taste to the spaghetti nut, pizza, French fries and meat dishes. "Blue Cheese" has a tart taste of French blue cheese with mildew. Such a sauce will make the everyday dish festive. This sauce is universal in use. It will be appropriate with pasta, and with meat, and on sandwiches, and how to dress to salads.

A more narrow application is "Caesar cheese". But, say the reviews, in addition to the eponymous salad, this sauce can be used for boiled potatoes, vegetables, canapés and spaghetti.

To sausages and sausages will suit mustard, to meat and potatoes - sour cream with mushrooms, to fish - creamy garlic and "Tartar", to seafood - "1000 islands", and to various kinds of side dishes - "Onions with sour cream". If you are a fan of Mediterranean cuisine, choose "Spicy herbs".

Cheese sauce (Astoria): composition

The products of this brand come out under the slogan "Restaurant at home". The old product label showed a piece of cheese. But as the firm considers it necessary to recommend its sauces to some dishes, the packaging has changed. It now depicts greenery with cherry tomatoes, slices of ham and pasta type "Tagliatelle".

But the manufacturer believes that the sauce can be used not only for salads, pasta and meat dishes. It will diversify your garnish from boiled or roasted potatoes. From the composition written on the package, you can find out that in the sauce there is real cheese, and not flavor. This, of course, affects the taste. Of the other components, it is impossible to deduct anything reprehensible. Yes, there are stabilizers, emulsifying salt and food coloring carotene, thanks to which the sauce has a pleasant yellow color.

The taste of cheese is felt. The smell of the sauce is pleasant. Consistency is quite thick, like mayonnaise "Provansal". It can also be used for sandwiches.

Packaging

It should be noted the convenience of packaging products of the line "Astoria". Cheese sauce can be purchased in a small "portioned" pack of 25 grams, which the company delivers to fast food establishments. Such packaging is called dip-pot. Despite the small size, all the necessary information (composition, storage conditions and expiration date), though in tiny letters, but is indicated on the sealing sauce membrane.

More familiar to buyers is another packaging of sauces "Astoria". It is called doy-pack. The sauce is poured into a soft plastic bag with a dispenser. The product can be re-closed with a screw cap.

The picture on the front side of the package is stylish, as they say, "appetizing". Packing doi-pack is popular with customers for the fact that the contents of the sachet can be squeezed out to the last drop, because the dispenser does not allow the sauce to spread out on the outside and that it can be closed with a cap.

Taste characteristics of cheese sauces "Astoria"

These consumers are often compared with mayonnaise. They have a homogeneous consistency, a pale yellow color. But the shade of cheese sauces is still more saturated than that of mayonnaise, and they are thicker. It takes only a spoon-two to fill a bowl of salad.

How else can you describe the cheese sauce Astoria? The sauce has a terrific taste. Creamy, gentle, moderately sharp and very cheesy. This product is quite high-calorie, so that those who sit on a diet, they can not get carried away. "Cheese Caesar", "Parmesan" and "Blue Cheese" also conquer gourmets with their taste characteristics. All these sauces, as if created for different kinds of pastes. But they can fill salads, add to garnishes and hot main courses.

General Product Reviews

56 rubles for a pack of 233 grams - that's how much the "Astoria" sauce is cheesy. The reviews include him as an inexpensive food. But at the same time this sauce is very high quality. It contains real cheese, and not flavoring, identical to a natural product. The sauce literally transforms the dishes. With him, even ordinary pasta is not the best sample begin to seem Italian pasta.