Tomatoes stuffed with rice and tuna taste like summer, good things from the beach, ready meals, picnic, all happy things.
Tomatoes stuffed with rice and tuna are a complete and tasty dish, easy to make, you don’t cook the rice. The filling goes all together into the tomatoes and cooks together, which is why it takes very little time to prepare them.

Thought for you:

Difficulty: Very Easy
Cost: Very Cheap
Rest time: 5 Minutes
Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Oven, Microwave
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All Seasons

414.81 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 414.81 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 46.66 (g) of which sugars 4.01 (g)
Proteins 17.76 (g)
Fat 17.56 (g) of which saturated 5.33 (g)of which unsaturated 3.66 (g)
Fibers 2.52 (g)
Sodium 332.50 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 300 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

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1.3 lbs tomatoes (round)
1 cup rice
3.5 oz canned tuna in oil (drained weight)
1 clove garlic
to taste basil
to taste salt
to taste pepper
3.5 oz mozzarella (or primo sale cheese)
4 tbsps extra virgin olive oil

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Tools

What we need

1 Knife
1 Bowl
1 Immersion Blender
1 Baking Dish
1 Oven

Steps

To make

First, take nice round ripe tomatoes, wash them, cut off the top “the hat” as my nephews call it, and with the help of a knife or a melon baller, gently scoop them out,
collecting the contents in a bowl.
Put a pinch of salt in each tomato and then turn them upside down to drain excess moisture.
Add basil leaves, a garlic clove, 2 tablespoons of oil, and a pinch of salt to the collected pulp.
Blend everything with an immersion blender.
Now weigh the rice, in our case, we have 1 cup, weigh the tomato juice, and add water to reach twice the weight of the rice, so we must reach 1.75 cups of tomato juice with water.
Combine the rice with tomato juice and water, mix and…
put a tablespoon of mixture in the tomatoes, then a bit of tuna, a bit of cheese and repeat the operation
until you have finished the ingredients and filled all the tomatoes
P.S. If you have leftover rice you can cook it in a baking dish in the oven along with the tomatoes
Now cover the tomatoes with their tops and place them in a baking dish, pour more oil into the dish, and..
Decide how to cook.
The times:
Check how long is indicated on the rice package, and add 3 minutes.
Traditional oven at 350°F in a preheated oven.
In microwave combined micro-grill 750w for the time indicated above.
Now that the Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice and Tuna are cooked, take them out of the oven and let them cool slightly. Enjoy your meal.