Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes


Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
A classic recipe of French family cooking, but with a more sophisticated filling.
344 K 3.8/5 (51 reviews)
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 1 hour 7 min.
Cooking: 45 min.
All in all: 1 hour 50 min.
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Stage 1 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Wash 4 tomatoes and 4 courgettes, if possibly keeping the small green stalk of tomatoes.

Stage 2 - 10 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Cut top off courgettes, remove inner flesh with a teaspoon.

Stage 3 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Discard all fibre and seeds, but keep the firm flesh, and cut into small pieces.

Stage 4 - 10 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Do the same thing for tomatoes.

Stage 5
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Also keeping flesh.

Stage 6 - 3 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Salt inside vegetables, and put upside down on a rack to drain them.

Stage 7 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Cut 2 slices ham into small pieces.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes

Stage 9 - 3 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
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.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add 1 beef stock cube, mix well.

Stage 11 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Add 500 g minced beef, salt again and cook.

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

Stage 12 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
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.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Add courgette pieces and herbs (rosemary, thyme and bayleaf) and leave to cook...

Stage 14 - 1 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
... until it's quite dry.

Discard herbs.

Stage 15 - 3 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
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.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
In a large oven-proof dish, put tomatos and courgettes side by side.

Stage 17 - 5 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Stuff each one with filling.

Stage 18 - 3 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Add 50 g grated cheese on top.

Stage 19 - 1 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Put "hats" in the dish too, but not on the vegetables, so they can cook easily.

Stage 20 - 30 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Put in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Stage 21 - 1 min.
Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
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
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe120 RDI=50 %50 RDI=5 %160 RDI=30 %2,170 RDI=110 %9,070 RDI: 110 %
Per 100 g5 RDI=2 %2 RDI=0 %7 RDI=1 %100 RDI=5 %400 RDI: 5 %
Per person30 RDI=10 %10 RDI=1 %40 RDI=6 %540 RDI=30 %2,270 RDI: 30 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk
How much will it cost?
  • For 4 people : 11.40 €
  • Per person : 2.85 €

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