Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista
Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, greek stuffed vegetables/ gemista. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista is something which I have loved my whole life.

Greek stuffed vegetables with rice and ground meat (Gemista) Vegetarian Gemista: Greek-Style Stuffed Roasted Vegetables. Place the stuffed vegetables in the baking dish over the sauce and season lightly with some salt. • Gemista - Greek Stuffed Vegetables

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook greek stuffed vegetables/ gemista using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista:
  1. Prepare 2 large tomatoes
  2. Get 1 Bell pepper
  3. Get 2 zucchini
  4. Prepare 2 eggplants
  5. Take 1 potato, cut in quaters
  6. Get 1 large onion
  7. Make ready 1 1/4 cup rice
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato paste
  9. Get 1 cup water or tomato juice
  10. Make ready 1/4 tsp all spice
  11. Prepare chopped parsley
  12. Take chopped mint
  13. Get dill
  14. Prepare oregano
  15. Make ready salt and pepper

There are so many things that I enjoy eating that I have never made myself and stuffed peppers are among those things. Gemista are vegetables usually tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant filled with rice (sometimes with ground meat) and baked in the oven. How to Make the Best Greek Stuffed Tomatoes- Gemista. The rice is cooked until it is very soft not al dente and so are the vegetables.

Instructions to make Greek Stuffed Vegetables/ Gemista:
  1. Slice off and save the tops of the vegetables. Spoon out the insides and save the pulp from all vegetables. Try not to pierce the skin. Sprinkle the insides with salt and arrange the vegetables with potato in dish
  2. Finely chop the scooped out insides. Grate onion and add to pan to cook in oil till softened, 4 minutes. Add the flesh of the vegetables cook stirring frequently for 10 minutes.
  3. Lower heat, stir in rice, herbs, tomato paste, all spice and season with salt and pepper. Dont cook for longer than a few minutes. Remove from heat and preheat oven to 350°F. Fill vegetables with mixture, about 1/2 - 3/4 full and cap with top of respective veggie. Sprinkle with olive oil. Add water to the pan, about half a cup to a cup, and cover with tinfoil. Bake for 2 hours (or until lightly browned). Continue to add water to prevent sticking.

Gemista or yemista (which in Greek means 'filled with') is a traditional recipe for Greek stuffed tomatoes and/or other vegetables that are baked, until soft This traditional Greek recipe for Gemista falls under the category of Greek dishes called "Ladera", meaning Greek dishes prepared with olive oil. Greek stuffed vegetables are not just vegetables stuffed with rice. This would not be interesting at all! The traditional recipe uses a lot of green herbs, spices Make the Gemista: Fill the vegetables with the filling, leaving one inch from the top, because the rice is going to puff up. Gemista stuffed vegetables is one of the most colourful and tastiest plates.

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