These grilled stuffed tomatoes are bursting with rich Italian flavors, yet are so simple to prepare. A great side dish for almost any grilled meal.
Editor’s Note: Originally Published July 18, 2010. Last Updated June 1, 2018, with re-edited photos and rewritten text.
I’m “into” grilled sides for my grilled meat. After the very successful grill peaches the other night, I thought a veggie was in order (yes, I do know a tomato is a fruit).
I searched but couldn’t find anything I wanted so here is another original recipe.
My design:
1) Use a fresh tomato for the grilling “container” for good stuff.
2) Add nothing that would need to cook like a raw meat since I didn’t know what internal temp I could get.
3) I wanted to use common ingredients that I already had on hand.
My Rating
Lower five or higher four.
Recipe notes for Grilled Tomatoes
You could stuff with almost anything. I’m eying a pound of Italian sausage I have in the freezer that will, of course, need to be precooked.
Use a large firmer tomato for this. A very ripe tomato will fall apart.
This can be done near the end of other grillings like chicken. The temperature of a small part of the grill can be decreased, or you can just adjust the time. I would not do this on a grill hotter than 450, or it will just fall apart before the center is hot.
The skin will come off the tomato but do not remove since it will help to hold it together.
Other Great Grilling Side Dishes
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Glazed Grilled Pineapple
Preheat grill to about 400 surface temperature. Medium-Low if you don’t want to check the temp. Clean and oil grates.
Wash tomatoes and cut tops off. Spoon out inside being careful not to go through the outside. Wash out the shells and take the inner core that you removed and wash off any seeds. Chop the cores into 1/4 inch cubes removing any tough parts.
In a mixing bowl, combine chopped tomato, 1/4 cup each feta, Parmesan, and Italian breadcrumbs. Add salt, pepper, parsley. Oregano, basil, and garlic. Mix well. Stuff tomato shells.
Mix 1 tablespoon each of parmesan, bread crumbs and olive oil. Top each stuffed tomato with half of the mixture.
Brush tomato skin with oil.
Cook with grill lid closed for about 10 minutes until skin is falling off and the top is browning.
Note: Carefully remove from the grill with spatula underneath, or it may fall apart.
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Grilled Stuffed Tomato - Italian Style
Ingredients
- 2 tomatoes - Large
- 1/4 cup Feta cheese
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese - plus 1 tablespoon grated
- 1/4 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs - plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon basil
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil plus some for brushing
Instructions
- Preheat grill on high. Clean and oil grates. Decrease temp to low on the section used for the tomatoes but leave other side on high or close to it.
- Wash tomatoes and cut tops off. Spoon out inside being careful not to go through the outside.
- Wash out the shells and take the inner core that you removed and wash off any seeds.
- Chop the cores into 1/4 inch cubes removing any tough parts.
- In a mixing bowl, combine chopped tomato, 1/4 cup each of feta, Parmesan, and Italian breadcrumbs. Add salt, pepper, parsley. Oregano, basil, and garlic. Mix well. Stuff tomato shells.
- Mix 1 tablespoon parmesan, bread crumbs, and olive oil. Top each stuffed tomato with half of the mixture.
- Brush tomato skin with oil and place over low heat.
- Cook with grill lid closed for about 10 minutes until skin is falling off and the top is browning. Note: Carefully remove from the grill with spatula underneath, or it may fall apart.
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Nutrition is for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
If you like this recipe or find it useful, the pleasure of a nice 4 or 5 rating would be greatly appreciated.
Originally Published July 18, 2010.
Dr Dan
July 19, 2010 at 6:09 pmI had never had one before so I was very happy with the results. I’m going to follow a recipe someday.
Sage
July 19, 2010 at 5:33 pmI love stuffed tomatoes; haven’t made them in ages. But I never thought of putting them on teh grill; smart idea.
Rita