Nando's launches caesar salad wrap with added pickles - we tried it, here's our detailed verdict
Added to the menu yesterday, the new Super Caesar Wrap is inspired by the Internet's love of caesar salad and girl dinner. It features pulled chicken, crunchy croutons, crisp lettuce, herby pickles, creamy salad dressing and a drizzle of the recently launched PERi-honey.
We already love the restaurant's existing caesar salad, but how will the wrap match up to it? Well a bunch of the Cosmo team traded in our regular meal deals for a delicious Nando's lunch to find out.
We really liked the switch-up of the shredded pulled chicken as opposed to classic grilled chicken and found there was a really decent amount of chicken in the wrap. We also loved the caesar sauce mixed with the classic Nando's sauce and the addition of the Peri-honey which perfectly balanced sweet, tangy and spicy flavours.
Some of the team loved the addition of the pickles and found it elevated the flavours of the traditional caesar salad, but those of us who are not pickle fans, we found it took over a lot of the flavour of the wrap. So if you love pickles, you'll be obsessed and if not, maybe request it not to be made with pickles.
The croutons are a nice addition, the only thing we're missing is a sprinkle of parmesan. So would we get it again? Hands down yes.
And returning to the menu is the Garlic BBQ sauce after fans voted in their thousands to have it added to the menu again. It beat out Mango & Lime and Smoky Churrasco to return to the menu.
We tried it on wings, and it's safe to say we're very happy to have the sweet smoky flavour back in our lives.
The new Super Caesar Wrap is available for £10.25 at all Nando's restaurants across the UK & Ireland.
Lydia Venn is Cosmopolitan UK's Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer. She covers everything from TV and film, to the latest celebrity news. She also writes across our work/life section regularly creating quizzes, covering exciting new food releases and sharing the latest interior must-haves. In her role she's interviewed everyone from Margot Robbie to Niall Horan, and her work has appeared on an episode of The Kardashians. After completing a degree in English at the University of Exeter, Lydia moved into fashion journalism, writing for the Daily Express, before working as Features Editor at The Tab, where she spoke on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Talk Radio. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of Gilmore Girls and 00s teen movies, and in her free time can be found with a margarita in hand watching the Real Housewives on repeat. Find her on LinkedIn.
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