stuffed tomatoes

For 4 people

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Stuffed tomatoes are one of a number of dishes in which tomatoes are filled with ingredients, usually including rice. In various languages, the name of the dish literally means “stuffed tomatoes”, including Azerbaijani: Pomidor dolması and Turkish: Domates dolması). In Turkey, the fruit are stuffed with meat (lamb) and rice; other ingredients are onion, parsley, olive oil, mint, black pepper, and salt. In the Roman dish, the filing is traditionally made with rice alone and it can additionally be flavored with cinnamon. Let’s introduce you how to cook the best stuffed tomatoes ever:

Ingredients:

• 500 g minced meat
• 4 tomatoes (or 8 small)
• 3 onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• Thyme
• Parsley
• Butter
• Pepper
• Salt

Preparation of the recipe

1. Peel and chop the onions, peel and chop the garlic cloves.
2. Place half of the onions in the sausage meat. Add the garlic, salt, pepper and a little parsley.
3. Cut off the top of the tomatoes and core them. Season the inside with pepper and salt. Put the stuffing inside and put the hats back on.
4. Put the rest of the onions in a dish with the flesh of the tomatoes.
5. Place the stuffed tomatoes in the dish. Sprinkle with a little thyme and put a knob of butter on each tomato. Bake in a hot oven at 180 ° C for about 1 hour.
6. Serve with rice.