Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista
Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed vegetables aka greek gemista using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
  1. Prepare 4 zucchini
  2. Make ready 4 eggplants
  3. Prepare 2 bell peppers
  4. Make ready 7 tbsp white rice
  5. Get 400 gr beef ground meat
  6. Take 100 ml tomato sauce
  7. Prepare 1 onion large size
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
  9. Get Salt and pepper

Recipes dinner European Print This What are Gemista? Gemista or yemista (in Greek it means 'filled with') is a traditional recipe for oven baked Greek stuffed tomatoes and/or other vegetables. Traditional gemista can be either vegetarian/vegan, when are filled with rice, vegetables and herbs. They can also be filled with a ground meat, or a combination of rice and ground meat.

Instructions to make Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista:
  1. Shimmer in low heat the chopped onion then add the mince, salt, pepper and tomato sauce. Cook it for a while and add the rice with some (1 tbsp), water in order to boil for a while. No need to full cook the rice since will be cooked in the oven after.
  2. Take the veggies and cut one side. Leave it aside so you have it as a cap later on. Clean the interior of the vegetables with a knife and fill it with the filling. Put the cap so will close the veggie. Repeat for all veggies.
  3. Put them in a tray pan in a way that the caps from the veggies won't open. And put the 2 tbsp of oil above the veggies before put them in the oven.
  4. In a preheated oven cook them for an hour and a half at 170 degrees. If needed put some water in the edges of the tray pan. After 1 hour check with a fork the veggies. Enjoy!

The ground meat can be beef, pork or turkey. Yemista means "stuffed." Traditional Greek gemista typically includes a filling made from beef, rice, and tomatoes or other vegetables. Then, the mixture is stuffed into tomatoes and baked. My gemista recipe is just like the authentic version, but uses healthier, low carb cauliflower rice instead of regular rice. Greek stuffed vegetables are not just vegetables stuffed with rice.

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