If you’re looking to fend off vampires this Halloween, look no further, as Morrisons has got you covered with a super garlicky pizza – and it’ll only set you back £2
Halloween is fast approaching, as many supermarkets and eateries are ramping up the spooky options you’re able to buy to celebrate the season.
Morrisons is no exception, as the chain brought back its strongest ever garlic bread pizza, which claims will help to fend off vampires – and I simply had to try it as I can’t get enough of garlic.
The garlic bread pizza costs just £2, and contains a whopping 10 extra whole cloves of garlic – so not ideal to consume if you’re in the early stages of dating someone. It’s only available until November 9 at the in-store fresh pizza counters, so you’ve not got long to try it for yourself.
Pulling the pizza out of the fridge, I was shocked at how garlicky it actually smelled. Not even the clingfilm covering it could mask the fact this pizza was covered in some seriously potent ingredients.
I was also shocked to see there were whole cloves of garlic just sitting on top of the already garlicky garlic bread. I was worried that this pizza might reach my garlic limit. My partner also remarked he was scared about the whole cloves, wondering whether it would ‘even be nice’.
We go through a lot of garlic in this household, so we’re no strangers to it. In fact, one of our favourite meals on rotation is cheesy pasta packed with veggies and, of course, many garlic cloves that end up going all delicious and mushy after being roasted in the oven.
We were shocked to see the pizza needed to go into the oven for 12-14 minutes, and were worried the bread would burn while everything else cooked away nicely. While it was starting to go a little darker than we’d like after the 12 minutes was up, then came the concern about how cooked the garlic would be – as it resembled pre-packaged cooked chicken.
After pulling the pizza out of the oven, I was a little nervous as I cut it up. It smelled even stronger than it had in the packet, and I immediately pulled out the kitchen air freshener as we started to eat.
On the first bite, I was left a bit confused. It didn’t taste overwhelmingly garlicky like I’d expected it to, and I certainly wasn’t put off to continue eating it thanks to the strong flavours.
I felt a false sense of security until I bit into a full clove of garlic and was shocked. It wasn’t too much, per se, it was just not cooked enough. Somehow, despite the fact it had been in the oven for the allocated time, and the pizza itself, if left any longer, would’ve been burned, the garlic was nowhere near cooked enough, which was a shame.
The pizza would’ve tasted infinitely better if those garlic cloves would’ve been mushy and delicious – but because they were so ridiculously humungous, I’m not even sure an additional 12 minutes would’ve achieved that result.
Overall, once the huge bulbs were removed, I thought for £2, the pizza was actually really good and would make a nice accompaniment where you’d usually eat garlic bread – or you could make it the main event if you’d prefer.
My advice to Morrisons for next year would be to split the bulbs up and layer them across the pizza so when it’s in the oven, it’s actually got an opportunity to get cooked and maybe even a bit mushy, and then it will taste 100x nicer. The cheesy, garlicky base has been nailed, but the almost-raw cloves of garlic were not ideal.
