Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, stuffed vegetables aka greek gemista. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
To serve, drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil, add a few mint leaves and enjoy! Gemista or yemista means "stuffed" in Greek. This traditional dish falls under the category of Greek dishes called "lathera," meaning "cooked with oil".
Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed vegetables aka greek gemista using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
- Take 4 zucchini
- Prepare 4 eggplants
- Get 2 bell peppers
- Prepare 7 tbsp white rice
- Make ready 400 gr beef ground meat
- Get 100 ml tomato sauce
- Take 1 onion large size
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready Salt and pepper
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Steps to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
- Shimmer in low heat the chopped onion then add the mince, salt, pepper and tomato sauce. Cook it for a while and add the rice with some (1 tbsp), water in order to boil for a while. No need to full cook the rice since will be cooked in the oven after.
- Take the veggies and cut one side. Leave it aside so you have it as a cap later on. Clean the interior of the vegetables with a knife and fill it with the filling. Put the cap so will close the veggie. Repeat for all veggies.
- Put them in a tray pan in a way that the caps from the veggies won't open. And put the 2 tbsp of oil above the veggies before put them in the oven.
- In a preheated oven cook them for an hour and a half at 170 degrees. If needed put some water in the edges of the tray pan. After 1 hour check with a fork the veggies. Enjoy!
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