Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
A classic recipe of French family cooking, but with a more sophisticated filling.
280,9403.8/5 for 45 ratings
Grade this recipe: Last modified on: February 21th 2011
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
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
Keeping: Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour 7 min. | 43 min. | 1 hour 50 min. |
At what time?
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at a certain time?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 4 people : 11.39 €
- Per person : 2.85 €
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Minced beef: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Gratin Parmentier, Meatballs, Spaghetti Bolognese, Gisèle's Pasties, Express chilli con carne, ... All |
| Grated cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach Mornay, Algerian brik rolls, Ham "friand" pie, Avengers' potatoes, Quiche Lorraine, ... All |
| Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paella, Ratatouille, Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Breton Sandwich, Mixed salad, ... All |
| Courgette: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little vegetable omelettes, Ratatouille confite, Vegetable tartare, Langoustine gratin, Pollack fillet baked with rice and vegetables., ... All |
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