Dinner Stuffed Tomatoes
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Serves:4 using 1/2 lb Swaggerty's Farm Premium Sausage
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes at 350 degrees
Level of complexity: Easy
Number of ingredients: 9 (including oil, salt & pepper, 6 main ingredients)
Pairs well with: A fresh salad of cucumbers & radishes
It's not summer without a ripe, juicy, great tasting tomato. But don't stop there, stuff it with a delicious mix of our skillet browned sausage, rice and Parmesan Cheese, and bake it.
Caution, you may never eat a plain tomato again!
Recipe: Summer Tomatoes Stuffed
with Sausage & Rice
Makes: 4 servings using 1/2 lb Swaggerty's Farm Sausage
Ingredients:
1/2 lb Swaggerty's Farm Roll Sausage
1 pkg (8.8oz) Pre-cooked Rice (Uncle Ben's Ready Rice type)
4 Lg. ripe, but firm tomatoes
Olive oil
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves, or 1 1/2 tbsp dried
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, or 1 tbsp dried
1/2 cup shredded or grated Parmesan Cheese plus extra 2 tbsp for topping
Salt & Black Pepper to taste
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a heavy skillet over medium heat brown Swaggerty's Farm Sausage until browned.
Break up Sausage into smaller pieces as you cook. Drain on paper towel. - With a sharp knife, cut about 1/2 inch off the top of each tomato. Core tops & bottoms
of tomatoes and discard cores. - Using a metal spoon scoop the pulp, juice and seeds from each tomato. Put 1/2 of
pulp & juice into a medium size mixing bowl. Set aside the remaining to freeze for
using later in another recipe. - Drizzle a bit of olive oil into a baking dish and add cored tomatoes.
- Into the mixing bowl with the pulp & juice add the rice and Sausage and mix
together. - Add basil, parsley & Parmesan cheese and blend well.
- Divide Sausage-Rice mixture evenly between all for tomatoes. Add tomato tops &
drizzle with a bit more olive oil. Sprinkle with extra Parmesan cheese over all. - Bake for 20 minutes or until mixture is hot in the center and cheese is melted.
Note:
These stuffed tomatoes can be prepared ahead of time and baked when you are ready to
serve. You can prepare and cover up to 8 hours ahead of time.
The summer is of course the best time to make this deliciously simple recipe using
homegrown or tomatoes from a Farmer's Market.
If you have a bumper crop of bell peppers this mixture would also be terrific stuffed and
baked in them as well.
Look for the pre-cooked rice in your supermarket. Uncle Ben's makes the one we used,
but there are other brands as well. You can also buy pre-cooked rice in the frozen food
section of most supermarkets. You can also cook your own rice if you aren't pushed for
time.