Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 4 tomatoes
• 2 500 g minced beef
• 3 4 courgettes
• 4 2 slices ham
• 5 1 onion
• 6 2 shallots
• 7 a little olive oil
• 8 2 cloves garlic
• 9 1 sprig rosemary
• 10 1 sprig thyme
• 11 1 bayleaf
• 12 50 g grated cheese
• 13 1 beef stock cube
• 14 salt
• 15 pepper
• Total weight: 2,260 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 7 min.	45 min.	1 hour 50 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Wash 4 tomatoes and 4 courgettes, if possibly keeping the small green stalk of tomatoes.
• 2: Cut top off courgettes, remove inner flesh with a teaspoon.
• 3: Discard all fibre and seeds, but keep the firm flesh, and cut into small pieces.
• 4: Do the same thing for tomatoes.
• 5: Also keeping flesh.
• 6: Salt inside vegetables, and put upside down on a rack to drain them.
• 7: Cut 2 slices ham into small pieces.
• 8: Chop 1 onion and 2 shallots.
• 9: Heat a little olive oil in a pan and add chopped onion and shallots, and 2 cloves garlic without peeling. Salt and pepper.
• 10: Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add 1 beef stock cube, mix well.
• 11: Add 500 g minced beef, salt again and cook.
  When it's cooked, remove and discard garlic cloves.
• 12: In another pan, heat a little olive oil (if possible with herbs). When it's hot, add tomato pieces and cook a few minutes (frying tomatoes gives a really good flavour).
• 13: Add courgette pieces and herbs (rosemary, thyme and bayleaf) and leave to cook...
• 14: ... until it's quite dry.
  Discard herbs.
• 15: Add cooked meat, ham, mix well and taste to check seasoning. Filling is ready.
  Preheat oven to 200°C or 392°F.
• 16: In a large oven-proof dish, put tomatos and courgettes side by side.
• 17: Stuff each one with filling.
• 18: Add 50 g grated cheese on top.
• 19: Put "hats" in the dish too, but not on the vegetables, so they can cook easily.
• 20: Put in the oven for about 30 minutes.
• 21: You can now put "hats" on top of vegetables, just before serving.

Remarks

You can also add cheese to filling, at the same time as ham.

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