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Rice Stuffed Tomatoes

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Main Dish, Side Dish
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 4 large tomatoes
  • 3 cloves garlic smashed
  • 1 small onion quartered
  • 3 leaves fesh basil
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
  • 1 cup instant rice brown or white will work
  • 1/4 cup olive oil plus some for drizzling
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Pre-heat your oven to 375. Wash your tomatoes. Cut out the top of tour tomato by making a medium sized circle around the core. Cut off the top. Keep the tomato hats for later.
  • Now using a spoon, scoop out all the pulp of the tomato and add it to the bowl of your food processor or blender. Do this to the remaining tomatoes.
  • You should now have a little tomato bowl!
  • To the pulp add the olive oil, garlic, onion, basil and salt and pepper. Now puree the mixture.
  • Empty the mixture into a bowl and add your rice and Parmesan cheese. Stir.
  • Place the tomatoes in an oiled casserole dish and season them with a drizzle of olive oil and salt & pepper.
  • Spoon the rice mixture into each tomato. Don't overfill. The rice will puff up. Put the tops back on. Spoon any remaining rice mixture all around the tomatoes.
  • Bake at 375 for about 45 minutes.