Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes
A classic recipe of French family cooking, but with a more sophisticated filling.
341 K 3.8/5 (51 reviews)
1 hour 50 min.
Easy
12 people
15 IngredientsLast modified on: February 21th 2011
For 12 people, you will need:
- 1
12 tomatoes - 2
1 litre 500 ml minced beef - 3
12 courgettes - 4
6 slices ham - 5
3 onions - 6
6 shallots - 7
a little olive oil - 8
6 cloves garlic - 9
3 sprigs rosemary - 10
3 sprigs thyme - 11
3 bayleaves - 12
150 mls grated cheese - 13
3 beefs 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.
To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: 17:40.Change end time
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Wash 12 tomatoes and 12 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 6 slices ham into small pieces.
Stage 9 - 3 min.
Heat a little olive oil in a pan and add chopped onion and shallots, and 6 cloves garlic without peeling. Salt and pepper.
Stage 10 - 3 min.
Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add 3 beefs stock cube, mix well.
Stage 11 - 5 min.
Add 1 litre 500 ml minced beef, salt again and cook.
When it's cooked, remove and discard garlic cloves.
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.
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.
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 150 mls 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 | 370 RDI=140 % | 140 RDI=10 % | 490 RDI=80 % | 6,500 RDI=330 % | 27,210 RDI: 330 % |
| 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 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 12 people : 34.20 €
- Per person : 2.85 €
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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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Minced beef
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