Beautiful dish for the festive table: stuffed tomatoes with cheese or chicken

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

What hostess doesn't want the dishes on her festive table to be not only delicious, but also very beautiful? To diversify your, for example, New Year's menu, cook stuffed tomatoes with cheese. This appetizer will be especially popular among guests, and friends in the kitchen will certainly ask you to share the recipe. What's more, this treat doesn't require any exotic ingredients and is fairly easy to prepare.

Holiday recipe: stuffed tomatoes with cheese and breadcrumbs

For multiple servings you will need:

• 2 large ripe tomatoes, firm, no dents or damage;
• 30g hard cheese;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons crushed breadcrumbs;
• olive oil, garlic and s alt.

This French dish is also called tomatoes"Provencal", and it is prepared in this way: for the filling, mix breadcrumbs, chopped cheese, spices like Provence herbs and olive oil. You can also add crushed garlic. Mix the mass thoroughly. Prepare large and strong tomatoes as follows: cut off the top (about a fifth of the tomato) and remove the pulp with a spoon. You should get a kind of bowls where you need to put the filling. Bake stuffed tomatoes with cheese and crackers in the oven for 15 minutes, or for the same time in the microwave. And now the delicious dish is ready! If you want to serve it to the festive table, take 2-3 times more of the indicated ingredients, because a couple of servings are definitely not

enough for everyone - there will be more than enough people who want to eat baked tomatoes.

By the way, you can remove crackers from the filling and cook tomatoes stuffed with cheese and garlic. In this case, put grated cheese on the bottom of the vegetables prepared in the previously indicated way, then a couple of onion rings and finely chopped garlic, and break an egg on top (take a small size so that the yolk does not leak over the edges of the vegetable). S alt, sprinkle with pepper and chopped herbs. Bake for 25 minutes in the oven (at 180 degrees). A delicious and unusual dish is ready.

Tomatoes stuffed with chicken and cheese

This treat is already more satisfying, because together with parmesan we add white meat to it. For multiple servings you will need:

• 3-4 roundor oval tomatoes with firm thick walls;
• 200 g boiled chicken fillet;
• 100 g of cheese, it is best to use some hard variety in such recipes, for example, "Cheddar" or "Parmesan";
• mayonnaise and spices.

First, prepare the tomatoes: wash, remove the top and scoop out the pulp with a spoon. In the resulting "bowl", first put the chicken breast, cut into small pieces, then mayonnaise mixed with fragrant spices, at the end of everything, cover with a generous layer of grated cheese. Bake stuffed tomatoes (cheese and chicken) for 15 minutes at 200-230 degrees, then the cheese will brown well, and the vegetables will be covered with a stunningly beautiful crust. On top of the tomatoes, you can sprinkle with herbs, or serve the dish on a large plate, which must be covered with lettuce leaves. Be sure that no guest will refuse to try such a treat.