Description
Ground beef, rice, garlic, and lots of other stuff is spooned into tomatoes and baked in 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- 7 tomatoes
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup instant rice
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, diced
- 1 pinch garlic salt, or to taste
- ground black pepper to taste
- 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
- 1 (6 fluid ounce) can tomato juice (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Cut tops from tomatoes and scoop out the pulp; transfer pulp to a bowl and chop. Reserve tops of tomatoes.
- Bring water to a boil in a saucepan
- pour in the rice
- and cover pan; let stand until rice absorbs water
- about 5 minutes.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly
- 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Mix cooked rice
- onion
- garlic
- garlic salt
- and black pepper into ground beef; add reserved tomato pulp and tomato sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil
- reduce heat to low
- and simmer until thickened
- 10 minutes.
- Set hollowed-out tomatoes into the prepared baking dish and fill each tomato with ground beef mixture. If desired
- place tomato tops back on filled tomatoes. Pour tomato juice over filled tomatoes for extra juiciness.
- Bake in the preheated oven until tomatoes are tender and filling is hot
- about 20 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 7