Italian Baked Stuffed Tomatoes Food

ITALIAN BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 Degrees.
• Cut a slice from the top of each tomato.
• scoop out insides of tomatoes and mash with hands.
• In a skillet, heat butter and sauté onion, garlic and sausage meat until it is brown and crumbly.
• Stir in tomato pulp and simmer for ten minutes.
• Remove Sausage Mixture from pan, put into a big bowl.
• Add bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and cheese, mixing well.
• Add as much cheese as you would like.
• You may not need all the tomatoe pulp either.
• The final mixture should be kind of sticky, but easily formable.
• Place tomato shells in a shallow baking dish and fill with sausage mixture.
• Bake in for thirty minutes.
• I find that the left over sausage mixture can be put in between the tomatoes, just to bake.
• I also put grating cheese on top of the tomatoes before baking.

HERB STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cut the tomatoes in half, horizontally. Use a small spoon to gently hollow out the inside of the tomatoes, discarding the seeds and reserving the pulp and being careful not to puncture the outer shell. Chop the reserved pulp and put in a medium bowl. Add the parsley, bread crumbs, cheese, and pepper and mix gently to combine. Place the tomato halves in a buttered casserole dish, and fill with the bread crumb mixture. Drizzle the top of the tomatoes with olive oil. Bake until the tops are browned, about 20 minutes.

BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• To prepare the stuffed tomatoes first wash the tomatoes, cut off the top and set aside 1 . With a small knife, cut the inner perimeter of the tomato and dig out the pulp with a teaspoon, collecting it in a bowl 2 . Pour the pulp into a mixer 3 .
• Blend the pulp to obtain a juice 4 . Place the tomatoes on a grill, salt them 5 and then turn them over to drain 6 .
• Now make the sauce: in a pan, heat the olive oil with garlic 7 , then, when the oil is seasoned, remove the garlic 8 and pour in the pulp 9 . Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat to reduce.
• In the meantime, cook the rice in boiling water 10 . When the pulp is almost cooked, add salt and pepper 11 . Chop the parsley and basil (well washed and dried) 12 .
• Remove the pan with the pulp from the heat once cooked, and flavor with chopped herbs 13 . Pour the resulting sauce into a bowl, add the rice 14 and season with grated Grana Padano cheese and Pecorino cheese 15 .
• Mix and set the filling aside 16 . Dice the scamorza cheese 17 and stuff the tomatoes, starting with a couple of tablespoons of rice 18 .
• Add 2 or 3 cubes of scamorza cheese, and fill up to and a little over the edge with another spoonful of rice 19 . The tomatoes are now ready to be cooked 20 . Place the caps on another baking tray 21 and cook them together with the stuffed tomatoes in a static oven preheated to 355° F (180° C) for about 50 minutes.
• When cooked, the stuffed tomatoes will be golden brown on the surface 22 , take them out of the oven together with the caps 23 and serve them hot together, garnished with basil leaves 24 !

VERONICA'S STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Cut the top quarter off of each of the tomatoes and reserve for later. Scoop out the pulp from the insides of the tomatoes and add to a blender. Sprinkle the tomato shells with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Season the pulp with the basil, broth, oregano, garlic, 2 tablespoons olive oil and 1 teaspoon salt. Blend on high speed until smooth, then pour the puree into a medium bowl. (You should have about 2 1/4 cups.) Add the tomato puree to the pulp puree and stir to combine. (It should yield 2 3/4 cups. If it doesn't, add more puree.) Stir in the rice.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Spread the potatoes on the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Toss well to combine. Nestle the tomatoes into the diced potatoes. Fill each tomato almost all the way to the top with the rice filling. Place the tops back on the tomatoes. Pour any remaining filling around the tomatoes and over the potatoes. Drizzle the whole dish with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and bake until the tomatoes are blistered on the outside and the rice is cooked through, 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Serve with a grating of Parmesan, if desired.

HERB STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cut the tomatoes in half, horizontally. Seed by gently squeezing the tomato halves. Use a small spoon to gently hollow out the inside of the tomatoes, being careful not to puncture the outer shell. Reserve the pulp.
• Chop the reserved pulp and put in a medium bowl. Add the parsley, bread crumbs, cheese, optional garlic, and pepper and mix gently to combine.
• Place the tomato halves in a buttered casserole dish, and fill with the bread crumb mixture.
• Drizzle the top of the tomatoes with olive oil. Bake until the tops are browned, about 20 minutes.

PARMESAN STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Combine bread crumbs with Parmesan, parsley, chives, tarragon, and pepper.
• Mix onion, seasoned bread crumbs, and melted butter.
• Cut tomatoes in half (horizontally) and seed them.
• Fill with bread crumbs and bake in buttered baking dish for about ten minutes at 350 degrees.
• Starting with room temperature tomatoes reduces cooking time and helps assure a firm tomato is served to guests.

SICILIAN STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Oil a baking dish large enough to accommodate all of the tomatoes. Cut off the top fourth of the tomatoes, and reserve the tops. Place a strainer over a bowl, and gently scoop or squeeze out the seeds without breaking the tomatoes. Rub the seed pockets against the strainer to extract juice. Discard the seeds. Using a grapefruit spoon, scoop out as much of the tomato pulp from inside the skins as you can, but don't break the skins. Chop the pulp, and set aside.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over medium heat in a medium skillet. Add the onion. Cook 5 to 8 minutes, stirring often, until tender and beginning to color. Add the garlic. Stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the anchovies, parsley, capers, olives, bread crumbs and tomato pulp. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and stir for about two minutes until fragrant and well amalgamated. Moisten as desired with the strained juice. Fill the tomatoes with this mixture and place them in the baking dish. Return the tops. Brush with the remaining olive oil.
• Place in the oven, and bake 20 to 25 minutes, until the skins begin to wrinkle. The tomatoes should be soft but not mushy. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.

ITALIAN STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Cut a thin slice off the top of each tomato. Leaving a 1/2-in. thick shell, scoop out the pulp; chop pulp and set aside. Invert the tomatoes onto paper towels to drain. , Meanwhile, cook sausage, onion and garlic in a skillet until sausage is no longer pink; drain. Add tomato pulp, zucchini, basil, oregano, vinegar, salt and pepper. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat. Stir in rice, provolone, 3 tablespoons Parmesan and parsley; spoon about 2/3 cup into each tomato. , Place in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan on top. Cover and bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake 15 minutes more or until the tomatoes are heated through.

BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Slice off top of tomatoes.
• Using a spoon, hollow out the tomatoes keeping around an inch of tomato "meat (or whatever its called)" around the bottom and sides.
• Discard pulp.
• Turn tomatoes upside down on paper towel to drain.
• In a saucepan, heat oil, parsley, scallions, garlic, and breadcrumbs.
• Mix together until just heated through and moist.
• Place tomatoes in well oiled casserole dish.
• Fill with stuffing.
• Top each with a tablespoon of cheese.
• Brush tomatoes with oil.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until cheese is golden brown and tomatoes look done, baste with oil occasionally or when needed.
• Note: as many people have noted these can be very dry depending on what type of breadcrumbs you use or how long you cook them. I would recommend adjusting the amounts according to what you have read or personal preferences.