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Pepperoni rules.
At least, according to my 14-year-old son, it does, but sometimes mama gets a hankering for more vegetables on her crust. So I was excited to find a new offering in the ever-expanding Mama Cozzi’s lineup of pizza products.
Every so often, Mama Cozzi’s debuts a new (or fleeting) vegetarian pizza option, and I usually try to grab them. While I enjoy vegetables on my pizza, I also have friends and family who don’t eat meat. If I’m having an impromptu gathering, it’s nice to have something in my freezer I can pull out that everyone can enjoy.
And ALDI’s new Mama Cozzi’s Thin and Crispy White Spinach Pizza is a vegetarian pie worth stocking up on.
What I Love About Mama Cozzi’s Thin and Crispy White Spinach Pizza
This pizza lives up to its name: it is definitely thin and crispy, and it’s studded with bits of frozen spinach and roasted garlic. The spinach and garlic go atop a cheesy layer of whole milk mozzarella with bits of ricotta salata mixed in, and that sits on top of a rich and creamy garlic crème fraîche sauce.
If you like garlic, then you’re going to love this pizza. The garlic is definitely the dominant player here, in terms of flavor, but it’s not too overpowering, even though it’s a star in this pizza show.
The sauce is creamy but not too creamy, the spinach complements the garlic, and the crust is crispy in a just-right kind of way. All in all, it’s a great pizza, especially for $4.99.
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How I Serve Mama Cozzi’s Thin and Crispy White Spinach Pizza
The instructions call for preheating the oven to 425°F, placing the pizza directly on the middle rack, and baking it for 10 to 12 minutes. Since I have a powerful convection oven, I baked it at 400°F, and 10 minutes was almost too long, as it was starting to get a little bit too brown around the edges.
I hate cooking my frozen pizzas directly on the rack, so I use a pizza stone, which yields a crispier crust.
The pepperoni lover in my house added pepperoni to half of the pizza, per his preference, but I don’t think everything needs pepperoni (I was overruled).
My son was also about to get a jar of tomato sauce to dip the pizza in, but then he tasted the garlic crème fraîche sauce and decided he didn’t need it. The verdict? He liked the pizza so much that he’s going to recommend it to his vegetarian friend.
