Dr Oetker's Ristorante Mozzarella Pizza
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Authentic Italian Pizza from Dr Oetker
Dr Oetker's Ristorante Mozzarella Pizza

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Dr Oetker's Ristorante Mozzarella Pizza

Date: 13/08/12

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Advantages: great taste!

Disadvantages: high in fat and calories

One of my all-time favourite things to eat is pizza. I absolutely love it and constantly think whichever Italian man invented what I think is the most delicious food there is!

When it comes to pizza I'll eat almost anything that remotely resembles it (as long as it's vegetarian), but I prefer thin and crispy pizzas rather than those deep pan pizzas that seem more American than Italian. So when it comes to buying a frozen pizza in the supermarket I go for Doctor Oetker's Ristorante Pizzas over something like Chicago Town.

The full price is usually around £2.60, but they always seem to be on special offer - either buy one get one free, two for a special price or just half price. These special offers make me VERY happy and I find it impossible to walk past the offers without picking one or two up!

The pizza comes in quite a few flavours apart from Mozzarella, but it's my favourite. As a vegetarian I can't eat any of the meat flavours, but I also like the Fungi (Mushroom) flavour.

The pizza is cooked in the oven from frozen. I don't cook the pizza for quite as long as it says on the box (10-12 minutes) because I hate even the slightest hint of burnt crust or cheese! There seems to be a very fine line with undercooked and burnt to a crisp so make sure you keep checking on your pizza to prevent this happening!

The taste is amazing. There are big round slices of mozzarella on the pizza which melt until soft, but they stay intact so that they are still round rather than melting into a pool of cheese. The pesto really goes well and gives it a great Italian flavour and there's lots of rich basil flavour. There's also small cubes of tomato which are absolutely packed full of flavour and taste really fresh - really surprising for frozen. There's Edam cheese too which I'm not a huge fan of, but on this pizza it doesn't taste too strong - I didn't even know it was there until I read the box! There's very little crust on these pizzas; the fillings go right to the edge. The base isn't doughy like a takeaway pizza; it's very crumbly and almost biscuity.

Sadly all that goodness does come with a hefty fat content. Each pizza contains 45.6g of fat and 890 calories. I can easily eat a whole pizza in one sitting so that's quite a high portion of my daily intake. This means that unfortunately these pizzas are a real treat and not for regular consumption even though I'd happily have one every day.

One thing I really enjoy is dipping this pizza into Heinz cream of Tomato soup; I don't know why but they go so well together. Try it for yourself! Overall these pizzas are great and taste like authentic Italian pizzeria pizzas.

Summary: 5/5