Stove Top Stuffed Tomatoes Food

STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Rinse tomatoes and cut the tops off.
• Using a spoon, scrape out the insides of the tomato. Chop the insides and the tops.
• Cook sausage, onion and garlic in a skillet until no pink remains. Drain fat.
• Add tomato tops, white wine, tomato paste, salt, and Italian seasoning. Cook an additional 5 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated. Stir in rice and cook until heated through.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons mozzarella cheese and 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese for topping. Stir remaning mozzarella and parmesan into the rice mixture.
• Place tomatoes in a baking dish and gently fill with rice mixture (extra filling can be placed in the pan next to the tomatoes if desired . Top with remaining cheese.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until tomatoes are cooked and filling is heated through. Do not overcook.

PENNY'S STOVETOP STUFFED PEPPERS

Steps:

• 1. Remove tops and seeds from peppers. Clean and set aside
• 2. Mix meat with rice, worcestershire sauce, onion, salt, pepper,garkic, Italian seasoning and 1/3 cup tomato sauce from the 15 oz. can. Pour remaining tomato sauce into bottom of the dutch oven.
• 3. Stuff meat mixture into peppers and stand up in a heavy cast iron dutch oven. After removing peelings and stems in canned tomatoes, crush them and mix with the sugar. Pour over the peppers and place the lid on the pot.
• 4. Cook on medium low heat on top of stove for 3 or so hours, until meat and peppers are done. Can be served over additional rice if desired.

MOM'S STUFFED BELL PEPPERS

Steps:

• Cut the top section of the peppers off and discard.
• Remove seeds and rinse the inside of peppers.
• Parboil peppers until slightly tender.
• Saute onions in butter until tender.
• Combine ground beef, cooked rice, egg, salt, pepper and half of the sauteed onions.
• Stuff each pepper with the ground beef mixture.
• Place stuffed peppers in a stock pot or dutch oven.
• Combine crushed tomatoes and tomato soup and pour on top of the peppers.
• Sprinkle the remaining sauteed onions on top of peppers.
• Bring to a boil and then reduce heat.
• Stir GENTLY occasionally.
• Simmer for about 45 minutes or until meat is no longer pink.

STUFFED BAKED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cut a thin slice off the top of each tomato. Scoop out pulp, leaving a 1/2-in. shell. Invert shells onto paper towels to drain. Mix stuffing ingredients except parsley; spoon stuffing into tomatoes. Sprinkle with parsley. , Place tomatoes in a baking dish; cover with aluminum foil to prevent over-browning of stuffing. Bake until tomatoes are tender and stuffing is hot, about 30 minutes.

STOVE TOP STUFFING CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and onion in a skillet.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, mix 3 1/3 cups water and stuffing together until moist.
• In the skillet, combine corn, mushroom soup, and milk with meat until creamy. Salt and pepper to taste. Mixture should not be soupy or your stuffing will sink.
• Lightly grease pan with cooking spray. Pour meat mixture evenly into the bottom of a 10x14 baking dish.
• If stuffing is too dry or thick to spread, add just a little extra water. Spread stuffing on top of the meat mixture.
• Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until meat & soup mixture is bubbly and stuffing is browning on the top.
• Serve alone or with veggies.
• Variation: Use 3 packets of dry brown gravy mixed according to package directions instead of mushroom soup and milk for the gravy. Sometimes, I also use an extra box of stuffing to put on the bottom of the dish as a bottom crust.