Tomatoes Stuffed With Goat's Cheese

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 medium size tomatoes
• 5 ounces fresh goat's cheese (fresh or semi-fresh)
• 1 cup breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 8 leaves fresh basil (replace it with parsley if you can't find basil)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (plus a few drops)
• salt & pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat oven to 400°f.
• 2 - cut off the top of each tomato and remove seeds; set aside the tops and pulp from the tomatoes. chop the basil leaves (or parsley).
• 3 - in a small bowl put the goat's cheese and crush it roughly with a fork; mix it with the breadcrumbs, egg, basil (or parsley), the tomato seeds, the 2 tbs. olive oil and pepper, until well blended. taste and adjust
• 4 seasoning if needed.
• 5 - place the empty tomatoes in an oven-proof dish; pour a drop of olive oil and a bit of salt in the bottom of each. stuff them with the cheese mixture and put the tops back on top. bake in oven for 20 minutes.
• 6 serve on a bed of lettuce.
• 7 trick :you can make this stuffing with zucchinis as well; in this case, you will need to add a bit of milk in your stuffing to make it softer (the tomato seeds were doing that !).