Tomato ladybirds
Tomatoes filled with a tuna mayonnaise and rice mixture, in a fun ladybird shape that kids will love, served with a puree of fresh garden peas. A good way to encourage them to eat vegetables.
Last modified on: February 21th 2011
Keywords for this recipe:For 6 tomatoes, you will need:
- 1
6 tomatoes - 2
fine (or table) salt - 3
200 g peas - 4
3 tablespoons olive oil - 5
1 tablespoon lemon juice - 6
2 radishes - 7
3 tablespoons Mayonnaise - 8
50 g tuna in oil - 9
50 g cooked rice - 10
1 bunch chives - 11
10 blacks olives - 12 salt
- 13
pepper - Total weight: 1,135 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour 37 min. | 10 min. | 1 hour 47 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 30 min.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Remove flesh inside tomatoes with a teaspoon or a pommes parisiennes spoon (easier), and keep all that you remove.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Dispcard tomato seeds, keeping the flesh and cut off pieces (minus hard green stalk end), chop roughly, salt and leave to stand in a strainer.
Stage 5 - 10 min.
Boil a pan of salted water, put in 200 g peas and cook until soft (2 or 3 minutes usually).
Remove from pan, drain and put into cold water. Drain again when peas are cold, then dry.
Remove from pan, drain and put into cold water. Drain again when peas are cold, then dry.
Stage 6 - 5 min.
Blend peas, and if possible pass through a fine strainer to remove skins and get a very smooth puree.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Mix 3 tablespoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Add 2 tbs of this mix to the pea puree, salt, pepper, and keep covered in the fridge.
Add 2 tbs of this mix to the pea puree, salt, pepper, and keep covered in the fridge.
Stage 8 - 10 min.
Prepare stuffing: cut 2 radishes into very small pieces, put in a bowl, add 3 tablespoons Mayonnaise, 50 g tuna in oil, 50 g cooked rice, 1 bunch chives chopped, and the chopped tomato flesh. Mix well.
Stage 9 - 5 min.
Fill tomatoes with this mix.
Stage 10 - 5 min.
Place a tomato upside down on a serving plate, coat with remaining olive oil-lemon juice mix.
Stage 11 - 5 min.
With a very sharp knife, cut out tiny circles of olive, as thin as possible.
Stage 12 - 19 min.
Stick olive circles on tomato to get the ladybird effect. Tip: position them with the point of a knife.
Make the head with 1/2 olive and 2 blades of chives, then surround with pea puree.
Do this with all your tomatoes, and serve without delay.
Make the head with 1/2 olive and 2 blades of chives, then surround with pea puree.
Do this with all your tomatoes, and serve without delay.
Stage 13
For adults you could make a quicker version without olives.
Remarks
With this recipe you will become a god or goddess of cooking for your young children or grand-children. After this they will frequently ask you to make ladybird tomatoes again... To make it a real surprise, close the kitchen door if possible while you cook, and then see their eyes open wide when you put the plates on the table.
To cook rice, use the pilaf method or rice-cooker.
To cook rice, use the pilaf method or rice-cooker.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,553 Kcal or 6,502 Kj | 31 gr | 61 gr | 132 gr |
| 78 % | 12 % | 6 % | 20 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 137 Kcal or 574 Kj | 3 gr | 5 gr | 12 gr |
| 7 % | 1 % | 1 % | 2 % |
| Per tomatoes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 259 Kcal or 1,084 Kj | 5 gr | 10 gr | 22 gr |
| 13 % | 2 % | 1 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 6 tomatoes : 7.12 €
- Per tomatoes : 1.19 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Source
Home made, from a photo seen in a women's magazine a long time ago.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Peas: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pea and avocado salad, Chicken breasts in a potato crust, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Fish fillet in express cooking envelope, Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, ... All |
 | Tuna in oil: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Gribouille dressing, Baked potatoes with poached egg and tuna sauce , Baker's pizza, Crunchy courgette and mushroom salad, Tapenade, ... All |
 | Cooked rice: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grilled fillet of salmon with corn-salad cream, Rice with spring greens, Comtoise stuffed tomatoes, Cajun pork with rice., Rice and fresh spinach salad, ... All |
 | Black olives: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Tapenade, Two-olive ciabatta, Salade Niçoise, Pissaladière with puff pastry, Souda salad, ... All |
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