Marmie's Baked/grilled Stuffed Greek Style Tomatoes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 6 roma tomatoes
• 1 small red onion, chopped very finely
• 1/2 cup feta cheese, crumbled
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated is best
• 3/4 cup pitted black olives (sliced)
• 12 slices cucumbers, thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled and slivered for garnish (or diced and mixed into cheese or onion mixture if desired...or roasted garlic makes it nicely mild)
• fresh basil, shredded
• fresh ground pepper and kosher salt
• 1/3 cup olive oil

Recipe

• 1 mix onion, feta, olives, fresh ground pepper to taste, 1 - 2 tablespoons evoo (and garlic if desired here as opposed to on top of tomato) together and let sit until ready to stuff tomato.
• 2 cut tomato in half width ways and gently remove seeds with a grapefruit spoon.
• 3 thinly slice a flat edge from the top and the bottom of the tomato, (to stabilize it on the pan) and sprinkle inside tomato with a pinch of kosher salt. (tip: should you cut too much off the bottom of the tomato and you are concerned the filling will seep out -- take the sliced off part and place inside the bottom of the seeded tomato).
• 4 fill each of the 12 tomato halves with the onion and cheese mixture from step 1.
• 5 drizzle a bit of evoo on top.
• 6 add a cucumber slice to top of each stuffed tomato.
• 7 add a sliver of garlic to top of cucumber (if you have chosen not to put it directly into the cheese mix).
• 8 add a bit of basil on top of garlic (or cucumber as needed).
• 9 sprinkle a bit of evoo on top again.
• 10 sprinkle with fresh parmesan and ground pepper if desired.
• 11 set tomatoes on a foil pan and cover with tin foil.
• 12 indirectly grill on the bbq on high for 20 - 25 min until semi soft or bake in oven at 350°f for 20 minutes or until tender but not too soft.
• 13 note - indirect heat on the bbq is when you light only one side of the bbq and place item to be cooked on the other.
• 14 serves 6 - side vegetables or 12 - appys.