Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Gemista Recipe

Gemista: A Greek Stuffed Vegetables with Rice and Ground Meat Recipe

 This meat-stuffed tomato and pepper dish is a popular summer traditional Greek food! Gemista or yemista is baked stuffed vegetables hollowed out and baked with rice, aromatic herb, minced meat filling, and a lot of Greek olive oil. Now that summer is here, this is the right time to learn how to make some gemista. To create this heavenly mouthwatering dish, you need tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, ground beef, rice, onions, parsley, Greek olive oil, mint, breadcrumbs, and potatoes. Full of beautiful summer vegetable colors, this authentic Greek gemista recipe takes around one hour and a half to prepare and one hour to cook.  Gemista me Kima - Ingredients 6 medium tomatoes 6 green bell peppers 500 g of ground beef 1½ cups (350 milliliters) of Greek virgin olive oil 2 medium-sized onions, grated 2 cloves garlic, crushed ¾ cup (150 grams) of uncooked short-grain rice ½ cup finely chopped parsley leaves (about ½ bunch) 1½ tablespoons of dried mint Sugar, as needed Salt and pepper 6 ...