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Tuscan White Bean Stuffed Tomatoes
This Tuscan White Bean Stuffed Tomatoes recipe is hearty, warming, and deeply satisfying. It's also budget-friendly and easy to make!
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 6m⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 51 min👤 Jess Rice📖 budgetbytes
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●bowl
- ●mixing bowl
- ●saucepan
- ●baking dish
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Scoop
2
Hollow out 4 large tomatoes, keeping the tops and transferring the juicy seeds and inside flesh to a medium mixing bowl. Reserve everything!
3
Dice the carrot, yellow onion, and celery sticks into small pieces to make mirepoix (which is a combination of diced veggies used to flavor a recipe).
carrot, peeled ($0.10)1
4
Pour 1 ½ Tbsp olive oil into a saucepan with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, Italian herbs, and the diced carrots, onions, and celery.
olive oil, divided ($0.38)2 Tbspcarrot, peeled ($0.10)1
5
Reduce
6
Once cooked down, about ⏱️ 5 minutes or until veggies are softened and glossy, add the insides from the tomatoes, diced zucchini, rosemary, garlic, and apple cider vinegar and simmer of on medium heat uncovered until a chunky filling forms and some of the juices cook down, about ⏱️ 10 min.
zucchini, diced small ($0.93)1garlic, minced ($0.15)3 clovesapple cider vinegar ($0.03)1 Tbsp
7
Cook
8
Add bread crumbs, white cannellini beans and tomato sauce. Stir until combined. Cook for ⏱️ 3 minutes.
cannellini beans ($0.86)1 can
9
Fold
10
Turn off heat and fold in shredded Italian cheese blend. Set aside.
11
Bake
12
Place hollowed out tomatoes in a lightly oiled baking dish. Fill each hollowed out tomato with the cheesy white bean filling and put their tomato “lids” on. Fill in around each tomato with any extra filling. Brush remaining olive oil on top of all 4 tomatoes and cover the entire baking dish lightly with tinfoil. Bake for ⏱️ 15 min at 375°F.
olive oil, divided ($0.38)2 Tbsp
13
Broil
14
Remove tinfoil and bake an additional ⏱️ 15 minutes. Broil on high for the last ⏱️ 3 minutes to get some color on top of the tomatoes, if needed.
15
Serve each tomato over pasta or rice.
Nutrition Facts
calories
197 kcal
fat Content
12 g
serving Size
1 stuffed tomato
fiber Content
4 g
sodium Content
1245 mg
protein Content
7 g
carbohydrate Content
19 g
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