Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, stuffed tomatoes and peppers. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Scoop insides of tomatoes and transfer 'meat' to a large bowl; squeeze juices out of tomatoes. Cut off tops of green peppers and reserve for later use; scoop out seeds and membranes. Take tomato flesh and process it until pureed.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed tomatoes and peppers using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers:
- Get 4 Fresh Tomatoes
- Take 4 Peppers
- Make ready 3 Medium Onions diced
- Prepare 3 Garlic Cloves diced
- Take 2 cups Short Grain White Rice
- Prepare 2 cups Olive Oil
- Take 1/2 cup Parsley Chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup Oregano
- Prepare 1/2 cup Raisins
- Make ready Salt
- Take Pepper
- Prepare 5 Potatoes Sliced (optional)
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon Mint
- Make ready Sugar
- Get 1/2 cup Kefalotyri Greek Cheese or Parmesan Cheese
Fill the tomato and pepper shells with the rice mixture and replace the tops. Arrange the stuffed vegetables in an oven dish and drizzle them with a little olive oil, the rest of the tomato mash, and some water. Surround them with the chopped tomatoes. Stuffed tomatoes and peppers always have potatoes surrounding them in the pan.
Steps to make Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers:
- Wash tomatoes and peppers throughly under running water. Cut a 1/2 inch thick slice off the top of each tomato and pepper and set aside. Scoop out all of the seeds and pulp from the tomato and place in a large bowl. Continue to scoop out the seeds from the peppers and then place upside down on a kitchen towel so that they dry for about 1/2 hour. Once they dry turn upwards place in a baking pan and add into each a dash of sugar and salt.
- In the bowl that the tomato pulp and juice is, toss in the rice, parsley, garlic, oregano, mint, salt, pepper, cheese, raisins and 1 cup of olive oil and mix together. Spoon rice mixture into hollowed tomatoes and peppers and place tops that were set aside. Add sliced potatoes into the pan and pour over the rest of the olive oil and top with salt and pepper. Place into pre-heated oven for 1 hour at 180 degrees. Check vegetables while in the oven and drizzle over the existing olive oil.
- Bake until the rice mixture has been cooked. Kali Orexi!
The potatoes get all the juices from the veggies and are SO good. They remain tender on the inside but get crisp brown edges from the roasting. The best potatoes for gemista are yukon Gold in my opinion. I don't remove the skin, it is very thin and I love it when. Start by preparing the vegetables for stuffing.
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