Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers
Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuffed tomatoes and peppers. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

As the peppers are not as juicy as the tomatoes the stuffing of the peppers always comes out a little dry. To avoid that, spoon some extra tomato juice Looking for a traditional Greek Gemista/ Yemista recipe (stuffed tomatoes and peppers with rice)? Find out how to bake them to perfection with this.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed tomatoes and peppers using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers:
  1. Take 4 Fresh Tomatoes
  2. Prepare 4 Peppers
  3. Get 3 Medium Onions diced
  4. Get 3 Garlic Cloves diced
  5. Get 2 cups Short Grain White Rice
  6. Get 2 cups Olive Oil
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup Parsley Chopped
  8. Get 1/2 cup Oregano
  9. Take 1/2 cup Raisins
  10. Take Salt
  11. Prepare Pepper
  12. Make ready 5 Potatoes Sliced (optional)
  13. Make ready 1 Tablespoon Mint
  14. Get Sugar
  15. Get 1/2 cup Kefalotyri Greek Cheese or Parmesan Cheese

Cook onions in ¾ cup of olive oil until soft and Drizzle a little more olive oil over the tops of the tomatoes and bell peppers. The original Yemista, or stuffed tomatoes and peppers. Traditionally, Yemista can be filled with meat or rice. When filled with rice, they are known to Tricks and tips to making the perfect stuffed peppers and tomatoes.

Instructions to make Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Bake until the rice mixture has been cooked. Kali Orexi!

Halve bell peppers lengthwise and discard seeds and ribs. For The rice Mixture Filling: in Bowl, Rinse rice And Ground BeefTogether Under water. Stir in Chopped parsley, salt, pepper, LemonJuice And tomato Taste. How good do these stuffed peppers and tomatoes look?! Debbie acts as your personal guide through Greek food, highlighting the importance of healthy greek cooking.

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