Stuffed tomatoes and peppers- Gemista

A dish that you can make with and without minced meat so its also suitable for vegetarians.

Ingredients:
5 big tomatoes
4 peppers
Patatoes
Olive oil
1 cup of risotto rice. Count 1 1/2 tablespoon rice per vegetable
(250 gr minced meat If you want meat)
1 big onion
Canned chopped tomatoes
Zucchini
Few patatoes
Salt
Pepper
Spearmint
Parsley
Oregano
1 1/2 cup of water

Directions:
Cut off the top of the tomatoes and peppers. Use a small spoon to get out the inside of the tomatoes. Cut the inside out of the peppers with a knife. Try not to poke through the skin otherwise the filling will go out.
Chop de inside of the tomatoes and save it for stuffing later.
Cut the onion and zucchini in small pieces. Cut the cleaned potatoes in parts. Fry the onion in some oil. Add the rice bit by bit so it’s all covered with oil. Add if you want the minced meat now and fry it, leave this out if you don’t want meat. Add now salt, pepper, parsley and mint and fry it. Put the little pieces from the inside of the tomatoes and the little pieces of the zucchini also in your pan and fry this also. Take your vegetables and stuff them with this filling and cover them with their tops. Put them in a dish for the oven and put pieces of tomatoes around it. Mix the can of tomatoes with some oil, water, salt, pepper and oregano and pour this around the vegetables. Put it in the oven at 180ºC for 1 1/2 hour. Check if you don’t need to add some more water in between. This dish is ready when the patatoes are soft.