YEMISTA (GREEK STUFFED TOMATOES AND PEPPERS)
Make and share this Yemista (Greek Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by evelynathens
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 2h45m
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Cut off tops of tomatoes (retain tops) and carefully scoop out flesh (retain this as well).
- Cut off tops of peppers (retain tops) and remove seeds and membrane.
- Place tomatoes and peppers in a pan large enough to hold them comfortably and give each veg a tiny dash of sugar with the tips of your fingertips (I really think this is important!).
- Take tomato flesh and process it until pureed.
- Add olive oil, rice, onion, garlic, mint, parsley, nuts, cheese, sultanas, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper (or season to taste).
- Stuff the vegetables evenly with this mixture.
- Replace tops of tomatoes and peppers.
- Combine 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup olive oil with a scant tablespoonful of tomato paste and a little salt and pepper and pour this around the veg.
- Bake in a preheated 375F oven (180C) for approx 1 3/4 hours (vegetables should pierce easily and be slightly blackened in parts).
- Turn off oven and leave in for another hour to'mellow' before serving.
- This is best served slightly warm or at room temperature.
- It is wonderful eaten along with little bites of feta cheese and a cool glass of white or rose.
- It will also have yummy juices begging to be mopped up with bits of crusty bread.
- In my version, I also take 3-4 medium-sized potatoes, cut them into big wedges, toss in a little olive oil with salt and pepper to taste, and'plant' in the spaces amidst the vegetables.
- That way you can have a couple of wedges of potato too.
GREEK GEMISTA - STUFFED TOMATOES & PEPPERS
Delicious stuffed tomatoes & peppers with rice, lots of herbs and aromatics.
Provided by by Jenny | The Greek Foodie
Categories Vegetables
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Remove all tomato stems.Using a sharp slice off the bottom side of the tomatoes, cut about 1/8 of an inch or even less if you can. Save the little cap on the side.
- Very carefully scoop out the flesh, making sure you do not rip the tomato skin. Place the tomato flesh in a separate bowl and set it aside. Sprinkle each tomato with a little sugar and sea salt and turn them upside down to release their juices while you clean the peppers.
- Using again the sharp knife slice the bottom of the bell peppers, cut about 1/4 inch this time. Save the little pepper cap on the side.
- Very carefully remove the bell pepper flesh, rinse each underwater if you have to remove any seeds; make sure it's all clean, and no seeds are left inside.
- As you finish scooping up and cleaning each vegetable place it in your large baking pan, open side up. Cover each tomato and pepper with their little caps.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 759 kcal, Sugar 21 g, Sodium 99 mg, Fat 43 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, Carbohydrate 88 g, Fiber 9 g, Protein 10 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GREEK STUFFED TOMATOES AND PEPPERS (YEMISTA)
This is my favorite! The best time to make it is in August when the garden tomatoes are ready for harvest. Hothouse tomatoes are just not the same. My mom made this every year, and when she did, I thought I died and went to heaven. Enjoy!
Provided by Denise Phillips Sarigianopoulo
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Greek
Time 1h45m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Cut off tops of tomatoes, leaving 1 corner still attached to create a lid. Scoop insides of tomatoes and transfer 'meat' to a large bowl; squeeze juices out of tomatoes. Cut off tops of green peppers and reserve for later use; scoop out seeds and membranes. Arrange tomatoes and bell peppers in a 11x17-inch baking dish.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the melted butter until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Add ground chuck, soy sauce, seasoned salt, and black pepper to onion mixture; cook until ground chuck is browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Mix squeezed tomato meat and water into browned chuck; bring to a simmer, about 15 minutes. Add rice and bring to a boil; remove skillet from heat. Spoon beef-rice mixture into tomatoes; place tops onto filled tomatoes and arrange them into the baking dish with lid sides down.
- Stuff bell peppers with beef-rice mixture and top with reserved lids; lay bell peppers sideways in the baking dish. Pour olive oil over stuffed tomatoes and bell peppers; season with salt and pepper.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Turn bell peppers and continue baking until bell peppers and tomatoes are softened, about 30 more minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 347.9 calories, Carbohydrate 28.5 g, Cholesterol 44.5 mg, Fat 20.6 g, Fiber 3.4 g, Protein 13 g, SaturatedFat 6.7 g, Sodium 411.9 mg, Sugar 5.4 g
YEMISTA GREEK STUFFED PEPPERS AND TOMATOES
Yemista is a traditional Greek dish that celebrates summer vegetables. This vegan (and gluten-free) version has heaps of flavour and it's easy to make too.
Provided by Ania
Categories large plates
Yield makes 10
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- Set the oven to 180° C.
- Wash tomatoes and peppers well. Cut about 1-2 cm off each pepper and tomato and set the tops aside. Make sure you don't cut the peppers too close to the base of the stalk as it may come loose and you want the tops left intact to keep the filling nice and moist.
- Using a sharp-edged spoon, scoop the inside of the tomatoes, leaving the outer walls intact. Save the scooped-out tomato flesh.
- Deseed the peppers, breaking the white membranes with your fingers or a small knife.
- Arrange the hollowed-out tomatoes and peppers snugly on a baking tray (or trays, I had to use two to fit them all in).
- Season the inside of each vegetable with a pinch of salt, sugar and pepper.
- Blend or finely dice the insides of the tomatoes to add them to the rice filling.
- Mix all of the filling ingredients together with the blended tomato flesh and olive oil.
- Spoon the filling into the vegetables, but be sure not to overfill - the mixture should be roughly level with the cut so that there is room for expansion under the tops. Give the mixture a good stir between filling each vegetable so that you distribute the liquid that drops to the bottom evenly between all vegetables. Put the tops back on.
- In a mixing jug, combine all of the ingredients for the sauce. Pour the sauce on the bottom of the tray, in amongst the stuffed vegetables.
- Put the baking tray (or trays) into an oven. After about 1 hour, protect the tops from burning by wrapping a piece of aluminium foil over them. Continue baking for another 30 minutes, until the rice is cooked through. If the rice is still a little hard at the end of the cooking time, leave the veggies in a warm (switched off) oven for another 30 minutes to finish off cooking.
- Traditionally, yemista is served at room temperature rather than warm, so allow it to cool down before eating. They're best enjoyed with a simple green salad (I use Romaine lettuce, spring onions and cucumber) and some crusty bread.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 221.39 calories, Carbohydrate 30.98 grams, Cholesterol 0.18 milligrams, Fat 9.6 grams, Fiber 4.8 grams, Protein 5.53 grams, SaturatedFat 1.17 grams, Sodium 343.94 milligrams, Sugar 8.92 grams, TransFat 0 grams, UnsaturatedFat 8.43 grams
YEMISTA (GREEK STUFFED PEPPERS)
These peppers stuffed with a seasoned ground pork and rice mix are a Greek favourite. You can also use the pork mixture to stuff zucchini and baby eggplants. Serve with a green salad and crusty bread.
Provided by English_Rose
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 55m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Neatly cut the tops off the peppers and set the tops aside. Remove the membrane and seeds from the peppers and discard.
- Heat 4 tablespoons of the oil in a heavy-based saucepan and fry the onion until it begins to colour. Stir in the rice and ground pork.
- Add the herbs, cinnamon, salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste and the tomatoes.
- Stir until the rice becomes transparent and the meat loses its redness.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- Use the mixture to loosely fill the empty peppers.
- Arrange the filled peppers snugly in a casserole dish (wedging some potato slices between them, if necessary, to keep them upright.)
- Put the reserved pepper tops back on the peppers, like lids.
- Combine the lemon juice, water and remaining oil and pour into the dish around the peppers.
- Bake for about 30 minutes until the peppers are tender and the filling is cooked and hot.
MUM'S YEMISTA (GREEK STUFFED VEGETABLES WITH RICE)
Yemista is a common dish during summer. Its great either warm or cold. You can stuff any vegetables you like, some use to stuff potatoes, large portabellos , bell peppers any colour, grapes leaves and even zucchini's flowers, the last ones are hard to find but they are the best. Also, in the filling some add feta, great!
Provided by katia
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 2h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Cut off tops of tomatoes (retain them) and scoop out the pulp (retaining as well). Cut off tops of peppers and remove seeds (retain tops). Cut lengthwise the eggplants and with a spoon scoop out the pulp retaining as well. Cut the end of zucchini and also scoop out the pulp, retaining.
- Place the vegetables in a pan packed closely but not squashed.
- Take the pulp of all the vegetables and process it until pureed. Add in a bowl the rice,the vegetable puree, half of the olive oil, the garlic, the onion, the parsley, the spearmint, the salt and pepper. Mix using a spoon.
- Stuff all the vegetables and place the tops of tomatoes and peppers.
- Cut the potatoes to byte pieces and spread them between the vegetables.
- Sprinkle the breadcrumbs, salt again the vegetables and add the rest of olive oil. Combine 1 cup of water.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375°F (180°C) for approx 1.5 hour.
- If you have leftover filling, add in the pan and put on the top some diced tomato. Its the best! I usually make more filling in order to have many plain rice!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 502.8, Fat 28.4, SaturatedFat 4, Sodium 61, Carbohydrate 58.1, Fiber 11.5, Sugar 11, Protein 8.2
YEMISTA - STUFFED PEPPERS CYPRIOT STYLE
A very tasty recipe for stuffing peppers but works just as well for big beef tomatoes. One of a variety of ways used to stuff peppers used in Cyprus and Greece
Provided by AskCy
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 2h
Yield 8 peppers, 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- cook the rice following your normal method.
- In a large pan soften the onions in the olive oil until a good colour is achieved.
- Add the mince and cook until coloured.
- Add the spices (mint, oregano, salt, pepper, cinnamon and garlic) stir in well and cook for a minute.
- add the veg stock and again stir in well.
- add the hot water making sure you get all the stuck bits from the bottom of the pan.
- Cook down on a medium heat until the mix is almost dry again.
- Add the cooked rice and stir well.
- Add the freshly chopped parsley and stir in.
- Cook until dry (so no puddles of liquid are there, but is still moist).
- Cut the peppers in half through the middle (ie through the stalk) and remove seeds and internal bits.
- Fill each half with the mix.
- Cover with the grated cheese.
- Roast in the oven until soft - takes about 30-40 minutes at 200°C.
- Serve hot by themselves as a starter, with chips and salad for a main course or even work well on a plate as part of a buffet.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 583.2, Fat 24.8, SaturatedFat 9.1, Cholesterol 68.8, Sodium 500.1, Carbohydrate 66.6, Fiber 5.3, Sugar 6.9, Protein 22.9
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