Greetings beautiful vegan community, I hope you are all doing well 💚
These past few days I bought my usual tomatoes. I love them for salads and sauces, but I wanted to try something new for us at home. One of the things I love most about cooking is creating amazing recipes, no matter how simple they are.
My tomatoes were beautiful, big, and red, but they had been in the refrigerator for several days. Today, wanting to do something new with them, I decided to look online for a recipe for vegan stuffed tomatoes. I found many recipes, saw some great ideas, and based on those, I made my own version.
This recipe is very simple. I would have liked to use vegan cheese or nutritional yeast, but I didn't have either of those ingredients on hand. However, that's not a problem, because with what I had in the pantry and refrigerator, I was able to prepare these stuffed tomatoes, which are ideal as a side dish or for a light dinner.
In this recipe you practically control the quantities and use the seasonings and vegetables you prefer. It's always good to make it about 3 hours before the meal, because there is a waiting time, in addition to the hour it will last in the oven.
En estos días compre mis acostumbrados tomates, me gusta mucho para las ensaladas y salsas, pero quería hacer algo que fuese novedoso para nosotros en casa y una de las cosas que más amo en la cocina, son las recetas estupendas que podemos hacer por más sencillas que estas sean.
Mis tomates estaban hermosos, grandes y rojos, pero ya tenían varios días en el refrigerador y hoy deseando hacer algo nuevo con estos tomates, se me ocurrió buscar en internet una receta para hacer tomates rellenos veganos, encontré muchas recetas, vi ideas estupendas y partiendo de allí, hice mi propia versión.
Esta receta es muy sencilla, me hubiera gustado usar queso vegano o levadura nutricional, pero no tenía ninguno de esos ingredientes a la mano, aunque eso no es problema, porque con lo que tenía en la despensa y en el refrigerador pude preparar estos tomates rellenos, que son ideales como guarnición o para una cena ligera.
En esta receta prácticamente tu controlas las cantidades y usas los aliños y los vegetales que prefieras, siempre es bueno hacerla con unas 3 horas antes de la comida, porque hay un tiempo que se debe esperar, además de la hora que durará en el horno.
If you're interested in learning more about this recipe, I invite you to watch the step-by-step instructions 😉
-2 large, firm, red tomatoes.
-3 tablespoons of rice (white or brown).
-Half a small white onion.
-2 cloves of garlic.
-2 sprigs of cilantro.
-Olive oil, enough to coat the tomatoes (other vegetable oil is fine).
-Oregano, to taste.
-Salt, to taste (I used 1 teaspoon).
-Black pepper, to taste (I used 1/4 teaspoon).
Begin by removing the top from each tomato. Using a knife and a small spoon, carefully scoop out most of the pulp. It should look like the photo. Remember, these tomatoes must be washed and dried beforehand.
Comenzamos quitando la tapa a cada tomate y con un cuchillo y una cucharilla nos ayudamos para sacarle gran parte de la pulpa, esto se hace con mucho cuidado, nos debe quedar como indica la foto, recuerda, estos tomates deben estar previamente lavados y secados.
The tomato pulp is not thrown away; we put it in a container and then blend it. It is advisable not to blend it too much so that we have small pieces of tomato left.
Now we pour the blended pulp into a container and add the rice. I'm using three tablespoons because the tomatoes are large; if the tomatoes are smaller, it would be one tablespoon of rice per tomato. Remember to mix.
We finely chop the onion, garlic, and cilantro, and add this to our preparation. We also add salt, pepper, and oregano. Remember to use your favorite seasonings.
These ingredients are mixed very well and left to rest for at least one and a half to two hours.
Now we're going to brush our tomatoes with olive oil and add a little salt on top. We'll place them upside down in an ovenproof dish and leave them there until we're ready to fill them. By the way, the tomatoes are placed this way so they continue to release their juice.
Two hours have passed and we're going to check on the preparation we'll use for the filling. At this point, we'll notice how the tomato has released water. We'll use a strainer to filter out all the liquid so that we're left with only the filling.
It's time to fill our tomatoes, put plenty of filling in so the tomatoes are nice and full, then put their lids on.
Then we put aluminum foil on top, this is so that it cooks evenly, we put it in the oven, which should be preheated 20 minutes before at 180 degrees.
Cooking time in the oven is approximately 45 minutes if you use white rice, 1 hour if you use brown rice. I took my tomatoes out after 50 minutes, removed the aluminum foil, added a little of the cooking liquid on top, and put them back in the oven for 10 minutes to brown slightly on top.
After an hour of cooking, the tomatoes are ready, the rice is cooked perfectly, and the tomato is slightly golden brown 😍
We serve and enjoy!
I hope you'll try this recipe and enjoy it as much as we do at home! 😊
Photos are my own, taken and edited with my Tecno Spark 20C phone.
Separators and shapes from Microsoft Word.
Collage used: CollageMaker.