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Stuffed vegetables
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Stuffed vegetables

A hollow vegetable (zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants), halved or hollowed out, stuffed with ground meat and uncooked rice (or with rice, vegetables and herbs, no meat), arranged in a wide pot and cooked covered in liquid with tomato paste until the rice inside is tender, or baked in a dish. Rolled leaves: stuffed leaves.

⏱ 47 min🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

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

To assemble

  1. 2
    Halve the zucchini lengthwise and scoop out the insides with a teaspoon, leaving walls of about 5 mm.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 3
    Fill the zucchini 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.
  3. 4
    Arrange the zucchini, now stuffed, in a wide pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  4. 5
    Pour the stock over the zucchini.
  5. 6
    Heat in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the stock 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.
475calories
28 gprotein
29 gcarbs
26 gfat
● protein 25%● carbs 25%● fat 50%

Per serving (604 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • 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)
  • 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)

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Second vegetable · Third vegetable · Stock · crushed tomatoes · Sugar in the sauce · Lemon juice in the sauce · Vinegar in the sauce · Tomato paste · Salt in the sauce · Oil in the sauce · Serving (with yogurt) · Ready tomato sauce · Garlic in the sauce · Blanching the halved vegetable (minutes) (5) · Caps chopped and sautéed in the pot (3) · Grated carrot on top · Chopped tomatoes on top · Uncovered for the last minutes (10) · Covered baking in the oven (minutes) (50) · Water in the pot · Sauce cooked first in the pot (minutes) (5) · Turmeric in the sauce · Parsley on top · Sauce in an ovenproof pan (in a deep, wide ovenproof pan) · Paprika in the sauce · Olive oil on top · Doneness sign for uncovered baking (the vegetable softens) · Peeling and blanching the whole vegetable (minutes) (5) · Date syrup in the sauce · Resting before serving (minutes) (10) · Leek in tubes, layers stuffed (5 cm) · Grape leaf rolls on the bottom · Baked after cooking (about half an hour)
  • Word for the lemon juice in the sauce: the lemon juice
  • Oven temperature: 180
  • How far the water covers: partly
  • Word for the oil in the sauce: the oil
  • How much of the chopped insides goes into the mixture: a few of them
  • Garlic browning time (minutes): 3
  • Words for the oil on top: the olive oil
  • How many outer layers remain: 2–3

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