🇬🇷 How to Make Gemista

Craving Gemista? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Gemista at home, in about 1 hr 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 large tomatoes and 2 peppers
• 200g long-grain rice
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• a big handful of parsley, mint and dill, chopped
• 2 potatoes, cut in wedges
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp sugar

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Slice the tops off the tomatoes and peppers and keep them — they are the lids. Scoop the tomato flesh out and chop it.
2. Fry the onion until soft, add the rice, the chopped tomato flesh, the herbs and the sugar. Cook 5 min.
3. Fill each vegetable two-thirds full. The rice swells and a packed one will burst.
4. Sit them in a dish with the potato wedges wedged between to hold them upright. Lids back on.
5. Olive oil over everything, a splash of water in the base, cover with foil.
6. Bake at 180°C for 1 hr, then uncovered for 15 min. Eat warm rather than hot.