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Tomatoes Stuffed With Rice - {Yemistes Domates Me Rizi}

Courses: Side dish, Starters and appetizers
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

6   Ripe beefsteak tomatoes - seeded
2 tablespoons 30mlButter
1 tablespoon 15mlOnion - chopped (large)
1   Garlic clove - minced
6 tablespoons 90mlRaw rice
1/4 cup 59mlOlive oil - plus
4 teaspoons 20mlOlive oil
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1   Parsley leaves - chopped
1/4 cup 59mlPine nuts - toasted
1/4 cup 10g / 0.4ozChopped fresh mint leaves
1 cup 237mlGrated Kasseri

Recipe Instructions

Cut the top off of the tomatoes and clean out all of the pulp leaving about a 1/2-inch thick skin. Reserve pulp.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a saute pan, heat the butter and add the chopped onion to the pan. Cook until the onions are golden brown, and add in the garlic. Add in the pulp from the tomatoes and stir in the rice. Add in 1/4 cup olive oil and a little water and simmer for about 5 minutes. Add more water if necessary. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the parsley, pine nuts, and mint.

Fill the tomatoes and sprinkle the top with the grated Kasseri and a drizzle of the remaining olive oil. Place in a baking dish with a 1/2-inch of water in the bottom and bake for 1 hour.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Source:
MELTING POT with Cat Cora - (Show # MP-1B56) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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