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Pizza Rice Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 minutes.
Cooking Time: 13 minutes.
Serves 2.  

Ingredients :

For the pizza sauce [makes ½ cup (approx. 7 tbsp)]
3 large tomatoes
½ tbsp olive oil
½ tsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
¼ cup finely chopped onions
½ tsp dried oregano
½ tsp dry red chilli flakes 
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
¼ tsp chilli powder
Salt to taste
¼ tsp sugar

Other ingredients
2 cups cooked long grained rice (Basmati)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
½ cup chopped capsicum (red, yellow and green)
¼ cup boiled sweet corn kernels (makai ke dane)
1 tsp dried oregano
Salt to taste
2 tbsp grated processed cheese

For the pizza sauce
1. Make criss-cross on the base of the tomatoes and place them in enough boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes or till the skin begins to peel.
2. Drain the tomatoes, cool slightly, peel, deseed and roughly chop them and blend in a mixer to a smooth pulp. Keep aside.
3. Heat the olive oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the garlic and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds.
4. Add the onions and sauté on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes.
5. Add the prepared tomato pulp, oregano, chilli flakes, tomato ketchup, chilli powder and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
6. Add the sugar, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring occasionally. Keep aside.

Instruction

1. Heat the olive oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the garlic and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds.
2. Add the capsicum and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute.
3. Add the corn and sauté on a medium flame for 1 more minute.
4. Add the prepared pizza sauce, dried oregano and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring occasionally.
5. Add the cooked rice, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.

How to pack
Allow it to cool completely, and pack with the cheese sprinkled on top in an air-tight tiffin box, sprinkle cheese evenly over it.