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Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes

A classic recipe of French family cooking, but with a more sophisticated filling.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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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: 2,256 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 7 min.	43 min.	1 hour 50 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Wash 4 tomatoes and 4 courgettes, if possibly keeping the small green stalk of tomatoes.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Cut top off courgettes, remove inner flesh with a teaspoon.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Discard all fibre and seeds, but keep the firm flesh, and cut into small pieces.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Do the same thing for tomatoes.

Stage 5

Also keeping flesh.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Salt inside vegetables, and put upside down on a rack to drain them.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Cut 2 slices ham into small pieces.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Chop 1 onion and 2 shallots.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Heat a little olive oil in a pan and add chopped onion and shallots, and 2 cloves garlic without peeling. Salt and pepper.

Stage 10 - 3 min.

Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add 1 beef stock cube, mix well.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Add 500 g minced beef, salt again and cook.

When it's cooked, remove and discard garlic cloves.

Stage 12 - 5 min.

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).

Stage 13 - 5 min.

Add courgette pieces and herbs (rosemary, thyme and bayleaf) and leave to cook...

Stage 14 - 1 min.

... until it's quite dry.

Discard herbs.

Stage 15 - 3 min.

Add cooked meat, ham, mix well and taste to check seasoning. Filling is ready.

Preheat oven to 200°C or 392°F.

Stage 16 - 2 min.

In a large oven-proof dish, put tomatos and courgettes side by side.

Stage 17 - 5 min.

Stuff each one with filling.

Stage 18 - 3 min.

Add 50 g grated cheese on top.

Stage 19 - 1 min.

Put "hats" in the dish too, but not on the vegetables, so they can cook easily.

Stage 20 - 30 min.

Put in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Stage 21 - 1 min.

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.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,166 Kcal or 9,069 Kj	123 gr	48 gr	165 gr
108 %	47 %	5 %	25 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
96 Kcal or 402 Kj	5 gr	2 gr	7 gr
5 %	2 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
541 Kcal or 2,265 Kj	31 gr	12 gr	41 gr
27 %	12 %	1 %	6 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 11.39 €
Per person : 2.85 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Minced beef: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Spaghetti Bolognese, Meatballs, Gisèle's Pasties, Moussaka, Polpete, ... All
	Grated cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Layered Leek and Egg Gratin , Celeriac and mushroom gratin, Potimarron (chestnut pumpkin) "au gratin", Croque-monsieur, Cauliflower and chickpea purée, ... All
	Courgette: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crunchy courgette and mushroom salad, Fish fillet in express cooking envelope, Quick courgette soup with cheese, Couscous, Courgette tart with mint, ... All
	Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tabbouleh, Green beans with tomatoes, Lebanese Tabbouleh, Greek salad, Guacamole, ... All

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