Greek stuffed cucumber on tomato sauce with rice

Name: Greek stuffed cucumber on tomato sauce with rice
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 uncooked, fine veal sausages (à 100 g); 80 g Sheep's cheese; 1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste; 1 (approx. 550 g) giant cucumber; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 250 g Long grain rice (10-minute rice); 1 Onion; 1 Garlic clove; 1 TABLESPOON Olive oil; 2 can(s) (425 ml each) chunky tomatoes; 1 collar Mint; 60 g red and green peppers; 7-10 Tbsp black pepper; 7-10 Tbsp Grease

AUTHOR
Kelley Price

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
30 mins

TOTAL TIME
30 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

2 uncooked, fine veal sausages (à 100 g)
80 g Sheep's cheese
1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste
1 (approx. 550 g) giant cucumber
7-10 Tbsp Salt
250 g Long grain rice (10-minute rice)
1 Onion
1 Garlic clove
1 TABLESPOON Olive oil
2 can(s) (425 ml each) chunky tomatoes
1 collar Mint
60 g red and green peppers
7-10 Tbsp black pepper
7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

1
Press the sausage out of the skin. Crumble the sheep's cheese and stir into the sausage meat with tomato paste. Wash and clean the cucumber, cut into 9 thick slices. Notch patterns into the cucumber peel with a chiseler. Use a sharp knife to carefully remove the seeds. Salt the cucumber and fill with the sausage meat.
2
Place in a lightly greased casserole dish and bake in a preheated oven (electric range: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 20-25 minutes. In the meantime, boil water with salt. Add rice and cook in a closed pot at mild heat for about 10 minutes. Peel onion and garlic and fry in hot oil. Deglaze with chunky tomatoes and let it simmer a bit. Wash the mint and dab dry. Put something aside to garnish. Cut the rest into fine strips. Set aside some pepperoni for garnishing. Cut the rest in half and scrape out the seeds. Cut the pepperoni into fine strips.
3
Wash the mint and dab dry. Put something aside to garnish. Cut the rest into fine strips. Set aside some pepperoni for garnishing. Cut the rest in half and scrape out the seeds. Cut the pepperoni into fine strips. Add mint to the tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper. Drain the rice and mix in the pepperoni. Put rice on plates. Arrange cucumbers on top. Spread the sauce around the rice, garnish with the pepperoni and mint
4
Add mint to the tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper. Drain the rice and mix in the pepperoni. Put rice on plates. Arrange cucumbers on top. Spread the sauce around the rice, garnish with the pepperoni and mint