Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista
Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuffed vegetables aka greek gemista. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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".

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed vegetables aka greek gemista using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
  1. Make ready 4 zucchini
  2. Prepare 4 eggplants
  3. Take 2 bell peppers
  4. Make ready 7 tbsp white rice
  5. Get 400 gr beef ground meat
  6. Get 100 ml tomato sauce
  7. Prepare 1 onion large size
  8. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
  9. Make ready Salt and pepper

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Instructions to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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!

A mixture of succulent tomatoes and silky potatoes are tossed with hand-picked herbs and lucious rice. Greek stuffed vegetables are not just vegetables stuffed with rice. This would not be interesting at all! The traditional recipe uses a lot of green herbs, spices, the juice from the tomatoes, and the flesh from the emptied vegetables to create a very flavorful, fresh and light dish. This very delicious rustic vegetarian dish takes advantage of in-season vegetables (all year round).

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