Free Recipe Domates Yemistes (Stuffed Tomatoes)
Recipe Type: Free Greek Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 6
Ingredients for Domates Yemistes (Stuffed Tomatoes) Recipe
Karen Mintzias 1/2
lb Lean lamb or veal, ground
12 Firm, ripe tomatoes
1/4 c Dry white wine
Salt 1/4
c Water
Granulated sugar 6
tb Raw long-grain white rice
3 tb Olive oil or butter
Tomato juice (if necessary)
1 md Onion; finely chopped
Freshly ground pepper
2 Garlic cloves; chopped
2 Sprigs fresh mint or basil
1/4 c Chopped fresh parsley
1 pn Grated nutmeg
Domates Yemistes (Stuffed Tomatoes) Preparation
Wash the tomatoes, then turn each stem-side down, and with a sharp knife carefully cut the end now up to make an opening or cap being careful not to detach the cap entirely. With a small spoon, carefully, without breaking the outer skin of the tomatoes, scoop the pulp into a bowl. Place the tomato shells in a baking-serving dish large enough to support them touching. Sprinkle the inside of the shells with salt and sugar. Meanwhile, prepare the stuffing. Heat the oil in a heavy skillet and add the onions. Cook over moderate heat until soft and transparent, then add the garlic and parsley, and blend. Add the meat, mashing with a fork, then add the wine and water, cover, and simmer for a few minutes. Add the rice and tomato pulp and stir. (Tomato juice may be added if necessary, since the mixture should provide enough liquid for the rice to absorb.) Cover the skillet and simmer about 7 minutes, then add salt, pepper, mint or basil, and nutmeg. Taste for seasoning. Remove from heat, and fill the tomatoes up about two-thirds of the way with the stuffing and liquid. Cover with tomato caps, brush with oil. Bake in a moderate oven (350 F) until the rice is tender (approximately 50 minutes to 1 hour), basting inside the tomatoes with liquid released by them. Serve warm. Note: For Tomatoes stuffed with Rice, use 1 1/4 cups raw long-grain white rice instead of the meat and rice in the above recipe, eliminate the wine, and include with the other seasonings a few tablespoons each of black raisins and 2 tablespoons pine nuts, if desired. Rice in baked stuffed dishes takes much longer to cook then over a burner. Stuffed green peppers, also popular in Greece, can be made the same way with an entirely different flavor. From: The Food of Greece by Vilma Liacouras Chantiles. Avenel Books, New York. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
How Do You Cook Domates Yemistes (Stuffed Tomatoes)?
If you know another way to cook Domates Yemistes (Stuffed Tomatoes) please make a comment in the form below to help other free recipe users make the best of this free recipie.