Lean Cuisine Brick Oven Style Pizza: Roasted Garlic Chicken

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Oct 20, 2006
3 stars

Lean Cuisine Brick Oven Style Pizza Lean Cuisine has a new line of pizzas out - Brick Oven Style! For $2.50, you get a large 'individual sized' pizza of "white meat chicken, roasted garlic, onions and reduced fat mozzarrella cheese in garlic sauce." They mention garlic more than once, which should tell you something about this pizza without you even trying it - it has a strong galic aroma when it is being prepared and that garlic smell lingers in the room and on your breath!

Things I like: The crust comes out to be thin and crispy and there is also a lot of cheese. I didn't even mind the strong garlic taste. There wasn't a lot of chicken chunks in the pizza, but I did get quite a few pieces so I won't complain about that too much.
Things I didn't like: I didn't like the sauce which didn't add much flavor to the pizza - other than garlic. I definitely did not like the chopped onion pieces all over the pizza. This is probably a personal preference, but while I don't mind onion, I don't like eating chunks of it.

This serving size is filling enough for lunch - maybe even dinner. One serving has 290 calories, 7 grams total fat and 2 grams of saturated fat which is 10% of the daily value, 28% of the daily recommended amount of sodium (670 mg), 20 grams of protein and 38 grams total carbohydrates which includes 2 grams of fiber and 3 grams of sugars. You can also get 25% of your daily calcium requirement and 15% from iron.

The nutrition is very good for a pizza, but I will probably pass on this one and try the other varieties, which are bbq - recipe chicken and gourmet mushroom. The Pretty Face tried all three varieties and her favorite was the gourmet mushroom [link].

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Comments

Fri: October 20, 2006
nobel4lit said:

I think a mushroom variety would be better.

Fri: October 20, 2006
Corinne said:

I like their deep dish spinach and mushroom pizza the best. have you tried that one?

Sat: October 21, 2006
monica said:

What do you consider a "serving size"? Because on the Lean Cuisine website it lists that 1 individual sized garlic chicken (the brick oven one... same as your review here) has 370 calories, not 290... ?

Sat: October 21, 2006
tanya said:

Monica - good point - I saw that on their website as wel, but I put up what I saw on the box (but I will double check with another box when I go back to the grocery store). Very weird!

Sun: October 29, 2006
Peggasus said:

I just tried this the other day, though I paid $3.15 for it. (I am not in a major market., so prices tend to be a bit higher.)

I thought it was pretty good, overall, except for one thing: the garlic flavor. And I LOVE garlic, but there's no way this was roasted garlic, the taste was much too strong and biting to be roasted. If it were roasted it would have instead been sweet and buttery. But boy, that silver bottom thingy sure got the crust nice and crispy. I'd buy it again, but only if it were on sale. I ate 3/4 of it for dinner.

Mon: November 6, 2006
diane said:

Agreed!! I tried this recently, and had to pick most of the ingredients off. Ugh, I thought it was disgusting. I love garlic and that was *not* roasted garlic flavor.
However, I do love their margharita pizza!

Wed: December 20, 2006
Anonymous said:

This one is the best out of the three flatbread varieties - sometimes I have it with some tomato sauce on the side...it needs it. Otherwise, I've had the BBQ chicken one and it's completely gross.

Thu: March 1, 2007
amy abshire said:

i think if they had lean cuisene pre made meals... maybe ones wih baby pan pan i like them.