Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe

Are you planning to throw a bridal shower lately? Then you must know that your bridal shower food should be in adherence to your bridal shower theme. Stuffed tomatoes can be a good appetizer or side dish for an evening party.

Stuffed tomatoes are an interesting dish and needs skilled cooking to prepare this. Before preparing this dish you need to make some decisions. You need to decide whether you want to have vegetarian stuffing or non vegetarian stuffing for stuffed tomatoes. Stuffing could be done by using mayonnaise, eggs (peeled and cooled), parsley and white breadcrumbs. It can be made of shrimps and mayonnaise. It can also be made of boiled potato mash, cottage cheese, and salted cheese. There are many more ways to prepare the stuffing. You need to decide whether you want to rip off the skin of tomatoes or you want to keep the skin of tomatoes on your final product. This is because in that case the recipe to make stuffed tomato changes.

After you make the above decisions you need to make the list of ingredients you would require to prepare this delectable dish. When you shop for tomatoes make sure that those are small and of similar size. When you start off cooking the dish, if you do not want the skin of tomato in your dish, you need to boil the tomatoes and peel off the skin. However, do not let the tomatoes be mushy, those need to be stiff. You need to scoop up the seed and the pulp from the tomatoes. You need to make those tomatoes vacant.

After making cavities in the tomatoes, you need to prepare the stuffing of your stuffed tomatoes. Now you need to fill the stuffing in the vacant tomatoes and pop those in to the oven at 350 degrees for 10 to 20 minutes. Basically the time required to cook stuffed tomatoes is based on size of tomatoes and type of stuffing you are using.

Presentation of the dish is also of much importance these days. So, when you are done with the stuffed tomatoes you can garnish those with coriander or parsley. You can also garnish those with fried onions. You need to use the decorative dish. Display the stuffed tomatoes in a decorative dish and decorate it with some leaves of basil or lettuce etc. We hope this article has helped you to cook best stuffed tomatoes ever.

Cheesy Stuffed Tomato Recipe

Ingredients:

• Ripe tomatoes 10
• Cottage cheese 250 gm
• Mozzarella or processed cheese 100 gm
• Capsicum 2
• Onion 2 (medium)
• Olive oil 2 tablespoon
• Crushed black pepper 1 tablespoon
• Salt 1 teaspoon
• Oregano 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli flakes 1 teaspoon

Make halves of tomatoes and remove seeds from inside. Grate both cheeses. Chop the onion and capsicum finely. Now, heat the 1 tablespoon olive oil in a pan, put red chilli flakes in it and stir fry it for few seconds. Now, add chopped onion, let it become tender then add capsicum in it. Add salt, oregano, and black pepper in it and stir it well again. Now, add grated cheeses (both) in it. Turn off the flame and stir this mixture well. Now, stuff this mixture in tomato halves. Brush olive oil in baking tray and put all these stuffed tomato halves and bake it in oven at 180C for 10 minutes.

You can make some variations in it. Like, you can use boiled or grated potato instead of onion with leaves of mint, celery, or basil. You can serve these with cheese dip, hot sauces, or ketchup. This is a very easy to prepare recipe and you can make it in quantities that are required for bridal showers.