Trader Joe’s ROASTED GARLIC AND PESTO PIZZA with deep fried crust

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/roasted-garlic-pesto-pizza-with-deep-fried-crust-068834

Trader Joe’s says this: “Our Roasted Garlic & Pesto Pizza is made for us authentically in Naples, where our supplier takes great care in replicating the lengthy, artisanal process of this particular pizza-making method. The dough is matured for 90 hours, then fermented for 6 additional hours, and while its fermenting, they manually fold the dough three times a day. Once the dough reaches peak readiness, our supplier shapes it by hand and deep fries it in sunflower seed oil for a quick three minutes. The result is a crust that is at once perfectly crunchy and dreamily airy, chewy, and pillowy.”

I had read that this Roasted Garlic Pesto pizza was one of the better of the many kinds of frozen pizza’s Trader Joe’s carries. So I got one to check out.

My review? This is a pretty good pizza! Now, as far as it being a “pizza fritta”, meaning a fried crust, if I didn’t know this already, frankly I probably could not tell the crust was fried. About “fried” – Just in case you are wondering, is this “deep fried pizza crust greasy” the answer is no. Not at all. The result of the frying of the crust first? The crust on this pizza is a airy and a bit nicely chewy. The toppings were also pretty good. I could taste the pesto.

(Note: i added a few cherry tomatoes) They don’t come with it!!

It fed two of us, with other things like a salad. All in all, I say this was pretty good and certainly easy! And this coming from someone who makes his own pizza, from scratch.

TIP: Be sure to bake this to just the right point, where the crust is nice and brown. At first, I took it out a bit too soon, the crust was not crisp enough. So I put it back in the oven for just another minute or so. The crust became so much better. So be sure to check it carefully. Brushing a little olive oil on the crust is recommended. DON”T however overdo it (baking too much) otherwise the crust will become too hard and tough.

In case you are thinking, “It looks like too much crust”. Nope, its nice. Airy and chewy and works with the whole thing. You can add things to this pizza too of course. I put a few cherry tomatoes. You could put a few dollops of sauce but it’s fine as is too. One guy on reddit said he puts on an egg for a breakfast pizza.

“Product of Italy”

Trader Joe’s ROASTED GARLIC AND PESTO PIZZA $5.99

I liked this. I would buy it again