Recipes of both cold and hot snacks today please us with their abundance. Just fantasize and surprise the guests. But fresh stuffed tomatoes will be especially advantageous at the festive table. Firstly, because of its bright and exciting red appetite, and secondly, due to the fact that each tomato can be served portion by piece. And the time for cooking leaves very little.
Preparation of stuffed tomato
Most often stuffed tomatoes are served as a cold snack, but you can pour them on top of grated cheese and send to the oven, on the way out you get a fine hot snack or, even, an independent dish - depends on the filling that you choose. And you can stuff tomatoes with everything - rice, eggs, seafood, cheese, greens, meat products and any vegetables. As you can see, there is your imagination where you can make your own way. You can stuff tomatoes in two ways: cutting off the top of the tomato and filling the middle with the filling, or cutting the tomato into halves. The extracted pulp can be used as an ingredient in the filling recipe, or used to make other dishes with the addition of tomato.
Tomatoes stuffed with shrimps
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 4 pcs .;
- shrimp - 350 g;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- grated cheese - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper, greens - to taste.
Preparation
Wash tomatoes carefully, gently cut off the top and remove the pulp with a spoon. Salt in and turn over to allow the resulting juice to flow.
Shrimp washed with water, cleaned from the shell, then boiled in salted water for about 5 minutes.
Wash greens, dry and finely chop. Cheese grate on a fine grater and mix with greens, shrimps, add olive oil and mix well.
Tomatoes stuffed with a ready-made filling and decorate with greens on top.
Tomatoes stuffed with tuna
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 4 pcs .;
- tuna (canned food) - 1 can;
- mayonnaise, vegetable oil - to taste;
- onion - 1 piece;
- grated cheese - 50 g;
- boiled egg - 1 pc.
Preparation
Open the canned food, remove the contents in a bowl and carefully mash with a fork. Cheese grate on a large grater. Egg boil and finely chop. Onion finely chop, and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Mix the tuna, onions and cheese. Wash tomatoes, cut off the top and remove the flesh. Finished filling fill the middle of the tomato, top cover with a cut top.
Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes
Ingredients:
- cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs .;
- avocados - 1 piece;
- sour cream is thick - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- Salmon slightly salted - 50 g.
Preparation
With a tomato, gently cut off the top and take out the flesh with a spoon. Avocado peel, remove the stone and finely chop. Cut the salmon into small pieces. Mix the sour cream, salmon and avocado, fill the cherry tomatoes with the prepared filling. From above you can decorate with a leaf of parsley.
Tomatoes stuffed with eggs
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 6 pcs .;
- boiled egg - 3 pieces;
- dill - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- sour cream is thick - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
Take small tomatoes, cut off the top and take out the pulp with a spoon. Turn the tomatoes over to drain the juice. Eggs hard boiled, finely chop, mix with sour cream, salt and finely chopped dill. Fill the middle with the cooked stuffing.
Tomatoes stuffed with salad
By the way, tomatoes can be stuffed with a salad, even remnants of it - the dish will only benefit when served. Salad can include corn or beans, use your favorite "Olivier" or cook tomatoes stuffed with meat salad - then you can serve them as a main dish.