Stuffed Zucchinis With Tomato Sauce
Photo: Mimi Cooks
Ingredients
Stuffing consists of:
1 cup Uncooked short grain Rice (Egyptian rice), washed and drained
2 mediums diced tomatoes
Preparation
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Place zucchinis in a deep pot, try placing them with open ends up.
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Add diluted tomato paste, make sure the zucchinis are covered with the sauce.
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Gently remove zucchini to a platter. Put the sauce in a bowl and serve together hot or at room temperature.
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About
This is a vegetarian recipe, but you might add to the stuffing about half or less of ground beef or lamb, whatever suits your taste.
Stuffed vegetables recipes are common in the Levant region.Usually the vegetables are stuffed with a mix of short grain rice, ground meat, onions and spices. People stuff zucchinis, eggplants, any size and color, turnips, bell peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and any vegetable they can hollow! Different sauces are used to cook the stuffed vegetables in but the most common ones are tomato sauce and yogurt sauce.
Yield:
6
Added:
Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 9:58am