Tomatoes stuffed with minced meat - a beautiful, tasty and quick dish!

Tomatoes stuffed with minced meat are cooked in the oven in just 20 minutes. However, before placing vegetables stuffed with meat, they should be carefully and carefully processed. It is also worth noting that for the preparation of such a simple dish you can use not only mince and tomatoes, but also other hearty foods.

How to cook stuffed tomatoes in an oven

Necessary ingredients for the dish:

• Bulbs of small size - 100 g;
• Tomatoes red ripe round shape - 1 kg;
• Meat fresh without fat and bones (preferably veal or beef) - 500 g;
• Hard cheese - 120 g;
• Parsley greens - half a beam;
• Salt - at the discretion;
• Pepper ground black - to taste;
• Fatty mayonnaise - 50 g;
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Processing of meat products

To quickly and deliciously prepare tomatoes, stuffed with minced meat, it is recommended to take young calf meat without bones and fat. The product should be rinsed in cold water, cut into medium pieces and chopped into a meat grinder.

Cooking stuffing for vegetables

The veal scrolled through the meat grinder should be put in a large frying pan, and then add to it vegetable oil (5-6 large spoons), chopped onions, table salt and parsley greens. All the products should be mixed and fried in their own juice for 26 minutes.

Preparation of tomatoes

Before you make tomatoes stuffed with minced meat, you should carefully process ripe tomatoes. To do this, you need to buy a kilogram of red vegetables of round shape, remove the pedicels from them, and then wash well in hot water. Next with each tomato you need to cut off the upper part with a sharp knife and take out the entire inner flesh with a spoon. It should not be thrown away, as it is still useful for filling. After the "cups" of tomatoes are fully prepared, you can safely proceed to their stuffing.

The formation of a beautiful and simple dish

Fried minced meat with onions and herbs should be cooled, and then add to it tomato pulp, which was previously taken from tomatoes. Further the filling should be carefully placed in prepared "cups" (1-2 tablespoons). In this case, it is advisable to make sure that the tomatoes stand quite stably on a flat surface. After that, tomatoes, stuffed with minced meat, it is necessary to cover with a layer of fatty mayonnaise and grated cheese. Also, it is recommended to add salt and pepper on top.

Heat treatment

Stuffed tomatoes with minced meat and cheese cap should be moved to a baking tray, and then sent to the oven for exactly 20 minutes. During this time, the tomatoes will become a little softer, and the grated cheese will completely melt and beautifully spread over the vegetable.

Correct feed to the table

Meat-stuffed tomatoes should preferably be served in a hot form for lunch on individual serving plates. Also, tomatoes should be decorated with herbs (dill, parsley) and put around them a side dish of fried potatoes or fresh cut vegetables. Bon Appetit!