Shara’s Stuffed Tomatoes
This is my daughter’s recipe.
- halved tomatoes
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 T. bread crumbs
- 2 T. olive oil
- 1 minced garlic clove
- grated Romano cheese
- basil
1. Grease a baking dish. Preheat oven to 300 F.
2. Place tomato halves in a baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
3. Combine bread crumbs, olive oil and garlic in a bowl. Spoon on tomato halves.
4. Sprinkle on cheese and basil. Bake in preheated oven or under the broiler until brown.
Serve immediately.
Ruth’s Iraqi Stuffed Pumpkin
4-6 servings
My longtime friend Ruth made this recipe.
- 2 pounds cleaned pumpkin
- margarine pieces
- cinnamon
- 3 cups cooked rice
- ginger
- ½ cup raisins
- ¼ cup finely chopped nuts
- brown sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a baking dish.
2. Place pumpkin in a baking dish. Dot with margarine pieces. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake for 30 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, oil a frying pan. Fry rice with cinnamon and ginger until brown. Add 2 cups of water and simmer.
4. Spoon rice into pumpkin and bake for 1 hour.
5. Fry raisins and nuts a few minutes and add to pumpkin. Sprinkle brown sugar on top. Bake until pumpkin is soft.
Stuffed Zucchini
6 servings
This came from an American food magazine, not dated.
1½ pounds zucchini, halved and quartered with pulp removed
1½ cups seasoned bread crumbs
3 T. olive oil
1½ cups tomato sauce with onion
¾ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
1. Heat oil in a frying pan, add zucchini quarters, cover and cook until lightly brown. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 10 minutes more. Transfer to a baking dish.
2. Place pulp in a bowl and stir in bread crumbs. Spoon bread crumbs into cavities. Top each with 1 T. tomato sauce. If using cheese, sprinkle each with 1T. cheese.
3. Broil 3 inches from heat source 3-4 minutes until sauce bubbles (and cheese melts if using it).
Sybil Kaplan is a journalist, author, compiler/editor of nine kosher cookbooks and food writer for North American Jewish publications, who lives in Jerusalem, where she leads walks of the Jewish food market, Machaneh Yehudah, in English.
