Stuffed Tomatoes in the Oven Recipe
Ripe (but not overripe!) tomatoes stuffed with minced meat and baked in the oven are a wonderful hot dish! Of course, you can use it as a snack, but it's better to cook for the second. It looks appetizing and festive, so it is quite suitable for a festive table. Moreover, tomatoes, at present, have ceased to serve as a seasonal vegetable: they are on sale all year round.
Servings 4
Cook Time 60 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 pieces Tomato
- 300 gram Minced meat
- 1 piece Onion
- 1 piece Chili pepper
- 50 gram Parmesan
- 1 bunch Cilantro
- 2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
- Salt (to taste)
Instructions
- Prepare the filling. Finely chop the onion.
- Cut the pepper into cubes.
- Cut the coriander not too finely.
- Grate the cheese to your liking: I did it on a large grater, but you can also use a small one.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the onion until transparent.
- Add the beef and fry, breaking into lumps, for 5 minutes.
- Add pepper, fry for another 10 minutes, stirring. Add salt, remove from the stove, let cool.
- Cut the caps off the tomatoes, do not throw them away. Carefully remove the pulp with a spoon, leaving the walls so thick that the tomatoes do not fall apart during baking. The pulp can be used to make sauce or salad dressing, we don't need it.
- Sprinkle the bottom of each tomato with coriander.
- Put the filling inside.
- Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
- Cover with lids, put in a baking dish. You can lightly sprinkle the tomatoes with oil, but I didn't do that.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
- Ready!