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Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes

Name: Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
Prep time: 1 h 7 min
Cook time: 43 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 tomatoes; 500 g minced beef; 4 courgettes; 2 slices ham; 1 onion; 2 shallots; a little Olive oil; 2 cloves garlic; 1 sprig rosemary; 1 sprig thyme; 1 bayleaf; 50 g grated cheese; 1 beef stock cube; Salt; Pepper

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

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Duration

1 hour 50 min.

Difficulty

Easy

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: 2,260 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

1 hour 7 min.

Cooking

45 min.

All in all

1 hour 50 min.

Preparation 1 hour 7 min.

Cooking 45 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 1

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

Stage 2 - ⌛ 10 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 2

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

Stage 3 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 3

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

Stage 4 - ⌛ 10 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 4

Do the same thing for tomatoes.

Stage 5

Also keeping flesh.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 3 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 6

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

Stage 7 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 7

Cut 2 slices ham into small pieces.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 8

Chop 1 onion and 2 shallots.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 3 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 9

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 : Stage 10

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

Stage 11 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 11

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 : Stage 12

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 : Stage 13

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

Stage 14 - ⌛ 1 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 14

... until it's quite dry.

Discard herbs.

Stage 15 - ⌛ 3 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 15

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 : Stage 16

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

Stage 17 - ⌛ 5 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 17

Stuff each one with filling.

Stage 18 - ⌛ 3 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 18

Add 50 g grated cheese on top.

Stage 19 - ⌛ 1 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 19

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

Stage 20 - ⌛ 30 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 20

Put in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Stage 21 - ⌛ 1 min.

Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes : Stage 21

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.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	5 g RDI=8 %	2 g RDI=1 %	7 g RDI=10 %	96 kcal RDI=5 %	402 kJ RDI=5 %
Per person	30 g RDI=47 %	11 g RDI=5 %	41 g RDI=56 %	541 kcal RDI=27 %	2,267 kJ RDI=27 %
Whole recipe	123 g RDI=190 %	47 g RDI=18 %	164 g RDI=225 %	2,165 kcal RDI=108 %	9,068 kJ RDI=108 %