Mercadona's Tex-Mex pizza costs €2.90 and is ready in 12 minutes

Mercadona, the Spanish supermarket chain led by Juan Roig, has a cheap dinner hit on its hands. Its Tex-Mex pizza costs €2.90, is ready in under 15 minutes, and people are already sharing opinions about it on social media.

The 410-gram pizza joined the shelves after the summer. It's topped with marinated roast chicken, red pepper, green pepper and roasted, marinated sweetcorn. Casa Tarradellas makes it, as it does other Mercadona own-brand pizzas.

Cooking it is simple. Preheat the oven to 220 ºC, with heat from above and below and no fan. Take the pizza out of its wrapper, put it straight on the oven rack and bake for about 12 minutes. The instructions suggest letting it cool a little before you eat.

It launched alongside Peruvian coffee capsules, a soy dessert with caramel and a tropical-flavour juice. Last year, the chain's carnivore pizza also caught the eye of some Spanish content creators.