Rwandan Pizza

Butare has been an interesting change for me.  The town is very different from Musanze and I have had to relearn prices and shop customs.  I am not alone in this change though.  Prince and some of his friends have also recently made the move from Musanze to Butare to attend the National University.  As it is Saturday and they are not studying too hard yet, we decided to enjoy some Rwandan pizza together.  It is mainly because none of us have ovens we had to make it Rwandan style.  The pizza began with a trip to the market.  In Butare, they have recently built a four story building in which the market is situated - already different as Musanze’s market is semi outdoors.  Food is located on the bottom floor of the market and it is there we picked up the essentials for pizza – tomato paste, tomatoes, green pepper, white onions, cheese and charcoal.    Back at home I taught the boys how to sauté onions, caramel colouring was not in the vocab so we went for honey coloured onions.  As the boys are uni students their kitchen is not fully stocked with utensils so I got to chop the cheese in to grated style pieces.  Now is when the Rwandan style really comes in though, we used chapattis as a base as I was not convinced we could cook pizza dough on charcoal.  After a quick demonstration of how to dress a pizza the boys each made their own pizzas to their liking and pan fried them to perfection.  I am not sure how the Italians would feel about our creations but we were all feeling satisfied by the meal.