Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista
Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista

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Greek stuffed vegetables with rice and ground meat (Gemista) Vegetarian Gemista: Greek-Style Stuffed Roasted Vegetables. Place the stuffed vegetables in the baking dish over the sauce and season lightly with some salt. • Gemista - Greek Stuffed Vegetables

Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

Using a spoon or knife remove inner flesh of vegetables in a separate bowl - inner flesh will be finely blended and added into the vegetable stuffing mixture in a later Did you know that the Greek word Gemista "gemizo" means stuffing? Gemista (Greek Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers). There are so many great vegetables at the farmers market these days and with the temperatures cooling down I am no longer as hesitant about having the oven going. Gemista stuffed vegetables is one of the most colourful and tastiest plates.

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!

You can make it all year round, but it is best during the summer, when it is the I have chosen to show you here the traditional Greek plate of "Gemista" stuffed vegetables, and this recipe is always made with rice; nothing else! Try this quintessential summer Greek Mediterranean dish: Roasted summer vegetables stuffed with rice and herbs. Gemista are vegetables usually tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant filled with rice (sometimes with ground meat) and baked in the oven. Greek stuffed vegetables are not just vegetables stuffed with rice. This would not be interesting at all!

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