Tomates Yemistes
- 12 medium tomatoes ripe
- 1 large onions chopped
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1 1/2 cups arborio (short-grain) rice
- 1/2 cup currants
- 1 1/2 cups water hot
- 2 tablespoons parsley leaves chopped
- 2 tablespoons mint leaves chopped
- Slice tops from tomatoes and reserve.
- Scoop pulp and sprinkle cavities with a little sugar.
- Keep aside.
- Put pulp in a saucepan with salt, pepper and 1/2 teaspoon sugar and simmer until soft.
- Press through a sieve and reserve pulp.
- Gently fry onion in half of the oil until transparent.
- Add pine nuts (if used) and cook for further 5 minutes.
- Stir in rice, currants, hot water, parsley, mint and season to taste.
- Bring to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes until liquid is absorbed.
- Fill tomatoes, allowing room for rice to swell.
- Replace tops and stand in an oven dish.
- Pour pureed tomato pulp and equal quantity of water or white wine into dish.
- Spoon remaining oil over tomatoes and cook, uncovered, in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.
- Serve hot or cold.
tomatoes, onions, pine nuts, arborio, currants, water, parsley, mint
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/tomates-yemistes-45120 (may not work)