Frozen Pizza: How to prepare and serve
Frozen pizzas are an important segment of pizza industry, offering many types of pizza – with toppings such as with vegetables, ham, cheese, salami and tomato sauce. Frozen pizzas are made with quality ingredients, so they are a good alternative to the traditional oven-baked fresh pizza.
In order to choose a good frozen pizza, you must look for the ingredients used and you must be sure that they are to a high quality standard: there should not be harmful additives (such as glutamate), margarine or other types of fats (oilseed), because a good pizza is made with only olive oil.
Moreover, the cheese used should be mozzarella cheese, possibly made with water buffalo milk, as the Italian tradition states. You should also look at the calorific contribution, it should be more than 240kcals for an average 300g pizza, but less than 600-700kcal.
Preparation is a crucial step if you want to eat a tasty pizza: you will need to carefully follow the instructions provided on the wrapper and you should use a traditional electric oven or a microwave oven at the correct power and temperature, setting the timer properly: you will find the correct timings written on your pizza box.
You must also pay particular attention to what you put the pizza in: it should not be aluminium nor plastic, use crystal dishes instead. If you want to give your pizza a special taste, put a bit of fresh olive oil over it before baking. Even though the timing is suggested by the manufacturer, don’t forget to check your pizza preparation frequently.
In fact, ovens are very different from each other, henceforth you must be sure that the proper temperature is given: when you see that the pizza’s crust is getting darker, it means that your pizza is ready. Don’t exceed the given oven temperature or timing, otherwise your pizza will become excessively dry and it won’t taste as it should.
Serve pizzas whilst they are still hot, accompanied with some good red wine or beer. Looking at the safety of eating a frozen pizza, you should not be worried. The industry quality standards are high enough such that the quality controls suggest that all manufacturers now use olive oil in their toppings, instead of cheaper kinds of oil.
Glutamate, as said, is a product that should not stay in a good pizza because it will alter the real pizza’s taste, and mozzarella is a must when you want to put cheese on a pizza, so that’s why you should buy frozen pizzas with mozzarella.
