Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, traditional gemista. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Traditional gemista is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Traditional gemista is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional gemista using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional gemista:
- Prepare 18 medium-sized ripe tomatos (or peppers, eggplants, zucchini, onions)
- Prepare 1 little sugar for sprinkling
- Get 4 large onions, passed through a food processor
- Take 1 1/2 cup olive oil
- Prepare 18 tbsp medium-grain white rice, washed under running water
- Get 1 bunch spearmint, finely chopped
- Take 1 small bunch parsley, finely chopped
- Get salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 cup water (if you also use peppers, eggplants, zucchini, onions)
Gemista, or Yemista, is one of the most popular Greek recipes, traditionally vegan and healthy, that recalls the richness of the Mediterranean vegetable gardens. Various vegetables are filled with rice seasoned with herbs, then baked until soft and nicely brown: delicious! Gemista or yemista means "stuffed" in Greek. This traditional dish falls under the category of Greek dishes called "lathera," meaning "cooked with oil".
Instructions to make Traditional gemista:
- Preheat the oven to 190°C.
- Slice off the top of the tomatoes and remove the flesh using a tsp. You should make sure that the skin of the tomatoes is left with very little flesh and is thin.
- Set aside the flesh of the tomato after you pass it through a food processor.
- Sprinkle the inside of the tomatoes with the sugar and spread them out in a baking tray with the opening on top.
- Using a wide pot or a deep frying pan lightly sauté the onions with 1/2 cup of the olive oil over moderate heat until they become translucent.
- Add the rice, the flesh of the tomatoes, the herbs and the salt and pepper.
- Turn off the heat, stir and let the mixture rest for 10 minutes.
- Fill the tomatoes halfway using a tsp. Cover them with their tops an place them back in the baking tray, one by one.
- Season with plenty of salt and pour the rest of the olive oil as well as a cup of oil and a cup of water (if you have used peppers etc. as well and not just tomatoes).
- Bake in the oven until the rice gets fluffy and the tops of the tomatoes mellow (at 180°C for a little more than an hour).
As most Greek recipes, gemista require simple technique but demand high quality ingredients. Gemista is one of the most well known Greek comfort foods. On the other side, a Greek traditional cook would swear that gemista is perfect with medium-grain rice. This rice absorbs liquid easily while keeping the kernel intact. It is moister than long grain and fluffy right after it's cooked BUT it tends to clump up as it cools.
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