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Lyo offer meals using natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They stand out from the crowd with unique recipes, the use of chunky ingredients that result in more natural, home style meals.
LYO says:
Ain’t no pizza! It’s Pizzoccheri!
Created together with members of the legendary Ragni di Lecco group – experts in groundbreaking alpine ascents and scrumptious Northern Italian cuisine.
Straight from the mountainous Valtellina valley in Lombardy, this hearty dish boldly combines ingredients that might seem like an unlikely match at first glance, but once you try it, you’ll know they simply belong together. Wheat–buckwheat pasta, cabbage, and potatoes, bathed in a mouthwatering sauce of melted butter with sage and garlic, a pinch of Parmesan, and Latteria Grignolo aged cheese, made from milk produced in nearby Valsassina and used in the region’s traditional mountain cuisine. Resist it if you can. We dare you.
Pizzoccheri by Ragni di Lecco is the fifth dish from a special menu of meals developed in collaboration with our brand ambassadors. The project "Let's cook something up together" received The OutDoor Industry Award 2017.
PREPARATION
- Tear off at the notch above the zipper
- Remove oxygen absorber
- Add 250 ml of hot, boiled water -fill line № 3 (see inside)
- Stir thoroughly
- Close the zipper and leave for 14 minutes
- Tear off at the notch below the zipper, stir again & enjoy
Our Verdict
LYO have tried to take a different route with their meals focussing on natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They proudly cultivate some of the fruits and herbs on their own fields. Other fruits and herbs as well as vegetables come from farmers known to them personally. All ingredients are carefully verified to ensure that their products meet the highest quality standards.
The majority of the meals use interesting combinations of natural ingredients with chunky vegetables, authentic flavours and more of a home cooked approach. We’ve been lucky enough to test a variety of them and have always been impressed with the end results. Generally, we appreciated the good combinations of flavour, texture and portion size.
The fill line for adding water to the packs is novel with a blue area from the bottom showing how much water is required. It is quite a subtle design feature that can be easy to miss and some form of internal indicator would be best but it still works.
This meal is certainly a lot different to the normal pasta, rice or potato based meals on offer. The flavour is strong which was a big plus for most of the staff but did put a couple off. The combination of ingredients with a great amount of vegetables and meat was a real winner for this meal. Overall a decent meal with a very generous portion size.
 9/10 |
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| STAFF'S TASTE TEST - ..... |
- Reviewed by Ultralight Outdoor Gear
Features
- Meat Free
Specifications
- Weight: 72g
| Nutrition Facts | Per 100g |
Per serving 12g (Small serving) |
| Calories | 2183 kJ / 509 kcal | 2620 kJ / 611 kcal |
| Fat | 30 g | 36 g |
| of which saturates | 20 g | 24 g |
| Carbohydrates | 37 g | 44 g |
| of which sugars |
2.4 g | 2.9 g |
| Fibre | 6.9 g | 8.2 g |
| Protein | 20 g | 24 g |
| Salt | 1.9 g | 2.3 g |
Material & Construction
- Ingredients of ready-to-use product: pasta (durum wheat semolina, buck wheat flour) 33 %, potatoes 21 %, savoy cabbage 21 %, butter, latteria Grignolo cheese 12 %, parmesan cheese 2 %, sage leaves, garlic, salt, pepper.
