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Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes

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

336 K 3.8/5 (51 reviews)

1 hour 50 min. difficulté

Easy

11.40 €

4 people

15 Ingredients

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 4 people, you will need:

1 4 tomatoes
2 500 ml 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 ml grated cheese
13 1 beef stock cube
14 salt
15 pepper

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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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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 8 - 5 min.

Chop 1 onion and 2 shallots.

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 ml minced beef, salt again and cook.

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.

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.

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 ml 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.

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 recipe	120 RDI=50 %	50 RDI=5 %	160 RDI=30 %	2,170 RDI=110 %	9,070 RDI: 110 %
Per 100 g	5 RDI=2 %	2 RDI=0 %	7 RDI=1 %	100 RDI=5 %	400 RDI: 5 %
Per person	30 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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