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Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers
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Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers

Stuffed tomatoes and peppers - a recipe by Daniel Azoulay

⏱ 45 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Daniel Azoulay🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, rice, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Hollow out the tomatoes with a teaspoon.
  2. 3
    Cut the top off the zucchini and clean it of the inner fibers.
    KnifeCutting board
  3. 4
    Fill the peppers and tomatoes with the mixture up to ¾ full: the rice swells as it cooks.
    💡Fill only three-quarters full: the uncooked rice swells inside the vegetable, and a full filling gets pushed out.
  4. 5
    Heat the oil in a wide pot, arrange the peppers and tomatoes in it and cook a few minutes over high heat.
    StoveWide, shallow pot
  5. 6
    Mix the stock, tomato paste, paprika and salt and pour into the pot.
    Bowl
  6. 7
    Heat the oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the tomato paste, stock and salt and stir until the paste dissolves.
    ⚙ SimmeringStoveLid
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  7. 8
    Let cool, transfer to a baking dish and bake in the oven at high heat for about half an hour.
    OvenBaking pan
830calories
34 gprotein
76 gcarbs
39 gfat
● protein 17%● carbs 39%● fat 44%

Per serving (860 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (8) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Lid · Also works: Aluminum foil (tight aluminum foil) · Plate (an upside-down plate)
  • Wide, shallow pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Stuffed vegetables

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