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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.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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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

Change these quantities to make: 2 tomatoes 3 tomatoes 6 tomatoes 12 tomatoes 18 tomatoes

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Time required for this recipe:

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1 hour 37 min.	10 min.	1 hour 47 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 30 min.

Peel 6 tomatoes.

Cut across the stalk end to form a flat base, leaving the largest possible dome.

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.

Salt inside tomatoes, and leve upside down on a tray.

Set aside.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keeping

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

Source

Home made, from a photo seen in a women's magazine a long time ago.

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 %

% 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: Egg, Sulfites, Mustard, Fish, Milk

How much will it cost?

For 6 tomatoes : 7.12 €
Per tomatoes : 1.19 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Peas: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Rice and peas, French-style peas, Paella, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Fish fillet in express cooking envelope, ... 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, Crunchy salad, Tomatoes Provençal, Creamy rice with spinach, Glazed mushrooms with plain rice, ... All
	Tuna in oil: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Baked potatoes with poached egg and tuna sauce , Warm broccoli and Tuna Salad, Avocado with Tuna, Tapenade, Spring courgette and tuna salad, ... All
	Black olives: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pasta with cherry tomatoes, olives and feta cheese, Greek salad, Tapenade, Pissaladière with puff pastry, Souda salad, ... All

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These are simply adorable JH. I must save this idea and share it with my blog visitors. Thank you!
Posted by Louise august 31^th 2009 at 18:52 (n° 1)

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