Creole Tomatoes

9 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 12 large firm tomatoes
  • 8 hard-boiled eggs, mashed
  • 6 slices bacon
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp. parsley, minced
  • 1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
  • bread crumbs
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • buttered bread crumbs

Directions

  1. 1
    Cook bacon until crisp.
  2. 2
    Drain, chop and set aside.
  3. 3
    In the skillet, leave just enough bacon grease to saute onions until transparent.
  4. 4
    Add to this the pulp, scooped carefully with teaspoon, from the tomatoes (do not scrape shells too thin).
  5. 5
    Add the mashed eggs and enough bread crumbs to make a firm mixture. Season with butter, salt, pepper and parsley (if necessary, add a little canned tomato juice).
  6. 6
    Add bacon last and stuff tomatoes with mixture.
  7. 7
    Sprinkle tops with buttered bread crumbs.
  8. 8
    Place stuffed tomatoes in a baking dish and bake at 350° until thoroughly heated and buttered bread crumbs are browned.
  9. 9
    Do not cook long enough for tomatoes to lose shape.
  10. 10
    Serve hot.

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