Stuffed Vegetable Medley
Ingredients
● 6-8 vegetables for filling: peppers, zucchini, acorn squash, tomatoes, artichoke bottoms
● 1 pound ground beef
● 2 onion, diced small
● ½ cup uncooked rice
● ½ cup water or broth
● ½ cup tomato paste
● 1 egg
● 1/2 cup pine nuts
● 4 cloves garlic, diced or minced
● 1 Tbsp cumin
● 1 Tbsp parsley, chopped
● 1 tsp thyme, chopped
● 1-2 tsp salt
● 1/4 tsp black pepper
● 2 Tbsp oil 20 oz can tomatoes (chopped if possible)
● 4 Tbsp lemon juice
● 4 Tbsp sugar
Directions
- In a saucepan, brown the chopped onion in the oil.
- Add tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, cumin, garlic, lemon juice and salt and pepper.
- Let simmer while preparing vegetables.
- Cut the top off the peppers, zucchini and squash and pull out the insides.
- Chop the flesh of the zucchini and mix in a bowl with meat, onion, rice, nuts, herbs and egg with water and 3-4 Tbsp of tomato sauce.
- Stuff vegetables with the filling and place in a roasting pan.
- Pour remaining sauce over and around the vegetables. (For decoration, cover with the tops of the peppers/squash.)
- Cover with aluminum foil and bake 1 hour basting once or twice.
BeTeavon and ENJOY!
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