Gemista

Step 1 of 5

Cut lids from tomatoes and peppers, chop tomato flesh and lightly sprinkle shells with 2 g salt. Keep the lids.

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12 min

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Ingredients

  • 800 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 500 gPeppers, sweet, red, raw
  • 260 gRice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, unenriched
  • 200 gOnions, raw
  • 35 gParsley, fresh
  • 20 gSpearmint, fresh
  • 400 gTomatoes, red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice
  • 70 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 400 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 7 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Cut lids from tomatoes and peppers, chop tomato flesh and lightly sprinkle shells with 2 g salt. Keep the lids.
  2. Soften onion in 40 g oil for 5 minutes. Stir in rice, tomato flesh, parsley, mint and remaining 5 g salt and cook, stirring, for 9 minutes at 150 °C.
  3. Fill vegetables only two thirds full with rice mixture, replace lids and stand them tightly in a roasting dish.
  4. Pour canned tomatoes, 400 g water and remaining 30 g oil around them. Bake covered at 190 °C for 32 minutes, then uncovered for 10 minutes until rice is tender and peppers wrinkled.
  5. Rest 6 minutes and serve one stuffed piece with some sauce per portion; a side is not part of the recipe.