My Yaya’s Gemista (stuffed tomatoes with rice)
My Yaya’s Gemista (stuffed tomatoes with rice)

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have my yaya’s gemista (stuffed tomatoes with rice) using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My Yaya’s Gemista (stuffed tomatoes with rice):
  1. Prepare 6/8 medium juicy tomatoes
  2. Make ready 4 potatoes
  3. Get 1 parsnip
  4. Prepare 2 onions diced
  5. Get 2 garlic cloves minced
  6. Prepare 350 grams rice
  7. Take Salt & pepper to tate
  8. Get 4 TS Olive oil
  9. Make ready 1 stock cube of your choice
  10. Take 1 TS brown sugar
  11. Take 1 handful raisins
  12. Get 1/2 glass wine
  13. Make ready 2 TS dry dill
  14. Prepare 2 TS dry mint
  15. Prepare 1 handful fresh parsley
  16. Get 1 cube Feta cheese to serve with
  17. Prepare 300 ml water
  18. Take 200 ml water
Steps to make My Yaya’s Gemista (stuffed tomatoes with rice):
  1. Turn oven on 180 degrees - Cut the bottoms of all tomatoes and keep them on the side, we will use them as lids to close the tomato after we have added the filling - Remove the tomato flesh and blend in a mixer - Thinly slice the onions and herbs - Cut the potatoes & parsnips in wedges, put olive oil in a pan on high heat and cook for 5 min. - - Take a pyrex and throw them in - keep aside.
  2. Filling: - In a medium-size pot heat olive oil and cook onions & garlic - Mix in sugar, raisins & rice and cook for 5 min - - Add tomato juice from the flesh, half a glass of wine, 300 ml water mixed with stock and cook for a few minutes, add salt and stir slowly - - Turn off the heat and throw in your herbs, mix with a spatula - your filling is ready - the rice will cook in the oven.
  3. Place the tomatoes in the same pyrex, add salt&pepper, and with a spoon fill up the tomatoes. - - Close them with their own lid - Throw the rice that is left in the pot on the potatoes to give an extra taste. - - Add 200 ml of water, salt&pepper, cover with foil and cook for 1 hour. After 1 hour remove the foil and cook for 15 min. - - Serve with feta cheese

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