Tomatoes Stuffed With Goat's Cheese

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 medium tomatoes
• 5 ounces fresh goat's cheese
• 1 cup breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2 cut a round "hat" off top of each tomatoe,remove seeds and set aside.
• 3 scoop out the tomatoes placing pulp and seeds in a bowl with the goats cheese, and crush roughly with a fork.
• 4 mix in the breadcrumbs, egg, basil, the olive oil and salt and pepper to taste.
• 5 place the empty tomatoes in a shallow casserole dish and pour a few drops of olive oil and a little salt in the bottom of each.
• 6 stuff them with the cheese stuffing and place their "hats" on top.
• 7 bake in oven for 20 minutes.
• 8 serve on platter on a bed of lettuce.