Irini Tzortzoglou's tomatoes and peppers filled with herbed trahanas and rice Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food Irini Tzortzoglou’ s tomatoes and peppers filled with herbed trahanas and rice By You Magazine - July 19, 2020 Trahanas is a type of sour soup commonly eaten in Cyprus and Greece, made from cracked wheat and fermented milk. It works beautifully in this stuffed vegetable dish. David Loftus SERVES 4 8 medium tomatoes 4 small green peppers 1 tsp caster sugar, plus a pinch extra virgin olive oil 1 large onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 large courgette, grated 75g soured trahanas 50g basmati rice 50ml dry white wine 400g tin of chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp tomato purée 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh mint 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley 50g currants 50g pine nuts, roasted in a dry frying pan, plus extra for serving 2 tbsp dried white breadcrumbs 50g grated hard cheese (graviera, kefalotyri or parmesan) feta cheese, to serve a few fresh flat-leaf parsley and oregano leaves 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Slice off the tomato tops. Using a spoon, remove the flesh, chop it and put it into a bowl. Slice the tops off the peppers and discard the seeds. Chop the soft flesh to which the seeds are attached and add it to the chopped tomato. Sit the empty vegetables in a roasting tray. Season with a pinch of salt and sugar and drizzle a little oil inside each one. 2. For the stuffing, heat a little oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion until almost translucent. Add the garlic to cook for another minute. Then add the courgette to cook for a couple of minutes more before adding the soured trahanas and rice. Cook until the rice is transparent and the trahanas is no longer in clumps. 3. Now add the wine and cook until it is almost evaporated. Add the chopped insides of the vegetables, tinned tomatoes, tomato purée and remaining 1 tsp sugar and season with salt and pepper. As soon as the liquid has been absorbed, the stuffing is ready. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the fresh chopped herbs, currants and pine nuts. 4. Spoon the rice mix into the tomatoes and peppers, leaving a little room at the top for the filling to expand. Cover with the vegetable tops then season with salt and pepper. Drizzle over some olive oil and sprinkle with the breadcrumbs and grated cheese. If there is any stuffing left over, put it around the vegetables in the roasting tray. Pour a couple of glasses of water into the tray, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and continue baking for another 30-40 minutes, until nicely browned. 5. Serve hot, warm or cold, with slices of feta and sprinkled with olive oil, parsley, oregano and pine nuts. Buy the book with £8 off Our recipes are from Under the Olive Tree by Irini Tzortzoglou, which will be published by Headline on 23 July, price £25. To order a copy for £16.99 until 2 August go to whsmith.co.uk and enter the code YOUOLIVE at the checkout. Book number: 9781472271877. For terms and conditions, see whsmith.co.uk/terms. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food 6 sunshine-yellow baking recipes with golden grains May 20, 2018 Donna Hay’ s sneaky bolognese June 10, 2018 Louise Thompson’ s lower-fat sticky toffee pudding June 29, 2018 Calling all cocktail lovers – this £12 Co-op vodka is one July 23, 2018 5 delicious new baking trends to try this season August 31, 2018 People are campaigning for the return of this popular Celebrations chocolate September 27, 2018 This is the best turkey to buy for Christmas 2018 October 11, 2018 Chrissy Teigen’ s French toast with whipped honey and ricotta topping November 17, 2018 Snowy angel cake December 23, 2018 Souped up 6 delicious healthy soup recipes with calorie counts January 27, 2019 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved