How to Make Delicious Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista

Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista. Shimmer in low heat the chopped onion then add the mince, salt, pepper and tomato sauce. Stuffed vegetables into the mediterranean cuisine. Along with Dolmades, Gemista is the most popular Greek stuffed food: sure enough, Gemista in Greek means "filled with"!

A traditional dish for vegetarian stuffed vegetables!! Diet based on vegetables, legumes and green leaves. It excludes foods such as meat, fish, mollusks, dairy products, eggs, honey and their. You can have Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista

1. You need 4 of zucchini.
2. You need 4 of eggplants.
3. You need 2 of bell peppers.
4. You need 7 tbsp of white rice.
5. Prepare 400 gr of beef ground meat.
6. You need 100 ml of tomato sauce.
7. Prepare 1 of onion large size.
8. You need 2 tbsp of olive oil.
9. It's of Salt and pepper.

Gemista recipe is actually one of the most popular Greek recipes. In Greece you will hear this dish as yemista, which is written as Gemista is the Greek recipe for stuffed tomatoes and other vegetables. It is one of the most popular vegetarian dishes in the summer. Wash vegetables thoroughly and slice off the tops.

Stuffed vegetables aka Greek Gemista step by step

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!.

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? A delicious vegetarian recipe using in-season vegetables. Create a full flavored baked dish using the same ingredients you would use to The creation is by me and I done an extra thing on this , I put some Greek mitzithra cheese at the top to make my gemista more crispy, i think. Greek stuffed vegetables are not just vegetables stuffed with rice. This would not be interesting at all!