Pomodori Ripieni

One of the thousand ways of using tomatoes is as a container, enclosing some spicy ingredients. When cooked in the oven, the moisture in the tomato flesh concentrates the flavour of the stuffing. You end up with a dish which is sweet, provided you use ripe tomatoes, yet savoury.

You can find this type of dish throughout the Mediterranean, stuffed with various fillings, including rice. I love it like this as a little snack or as part of an antipasto.