Kinsale Gourmet launched the range of seafood and meat pies in Ireland in June 2012. The firm is now targeting premium retailers and foodservice outlets in the UK.
The range includes: seafood pie, seafood lasagna, cottage pie, salmon and sea veg pie and beef porter pie.
Kinsale says it chose the Irish sea vegetable dillisk for its nutritional value: it contains vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that aren't available in land-grown vegetables. It also provides a natural way of adding salt and flavour to the food.
The earliest record of Irish dillisk was 1,400 years ago when St. Columba and the monks of Iona ate it for good health.
The sea vegetable is foraged from the west coast of Ireland and the pies are handmade at the company's new manufacturing site at Kinsale the gourmet capital of Ireland on the south coast.
The meals are frozen within minutes of being prepared.
