Marmie's Baked/Grilled Stuffed Greek Style Tomatoes
photo by Marmies
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
12 appys
- Serves:
- 6-12
ingredients
- 6 roma tomatoes
- 1 small red onion, chopped very finely
- 118.29 ml feta cheese, crumbled
- 59.14 ml parmesan cheese, freshly grated is best
- 177.44 ml pitted black olives (sliced)
- 12 slice cucumbers, thinly sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and slivered for garnish (or diced and mixed into cheese or onion mixture if desired...or roasted garlic makes it nicely mild)
- fresh basil, shredded
- fresh ground pepper and kosher salt
- 78.78 ml olive oil
directions
- Mix onion, feta, olives, fresh ground pepper to taste, 1 - 2 Tablespoons EVOO (and garlic if desired here as opposed to on top of tomato) together and let sit until ready to stuff tomato.
- Cut tomato in half width ways and gently remove seeds with a grapefruit spoon.
- Thinly slice a flat edge from the top and the bottom of the tomato, (to stabilize it on the pan) and sprinkle inside tomato with a pinch of kosher salt. (Tip: should you cut too much off the bottom of the tomato and you are concerned the filling will seep out -- take the sliced off part and place inside the bottom of the seeded tomato).
- Fill each of the 12 tomato halves with the onion and cheese mixture from step 1.
- Drizzle a bit of EVOO on top.
- Add a cucumber slice to top of each stuffed tomato.
- Add a sliver of garlic to top of cucumber (if you have chosen not to put it directly into the cheese mix).
- Add a bit of basil on top of garlic (or cucumber as needed).
- Sprinkle a bit of EVOO on top again.
- Sprinkle with fresh parmesan and ground pepper if desired.
- Set tomatoes on a foil pan and cover with tin foil.
- Indirectly grill on the BBQ on high for 20 - 25 min until semi soft or bake in oven at 350°F for 20 minutes or until tender but not too soft.
- NOTE - indirect heat on the BBQ is when you light only one side of the BBQ and place item to be cooked on the other.
- Serves 6 - side vegetables or 12 - Appys.
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I live on a farm in beautiful Alberta Canada with my husband and children. Between us we have six 'kids' ranging in age from 16 - 26 years old. Now that there are only two of our kids left living at home, I have more time to play around with my real passion; cooking and trying new recipes. I really love it when the kids come home so I can cook for them. I truly enjoy harvesting our massive garden (well, actually it is more my husband Jerry's garden if I am honest.)and putting up preserves every year. We have a great arrangement, he plants and weeds - I cook and can everything edible! It works well for us. My favorite thing is when my husband and I share a glass of wine while I am cooking and have the best visits. Oh so much good food out there and so little waistline to spare!
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