Chicken Stuffed Tomatoes are the perfect combination of ingredients that complement each other to make a great, almost perfect hot dish or a savory, mind-blowingly divine appetizer!

Cooking time: 40 min
Servings: 4

You will need:

Tomatoes – 4 pieces (large)
Chicken (breast) – 1-2 pieces
Mayonnaise – to taste
Hard cheese – 100 grams or to taste
Salt – to taste
Ground black pepper – to taste
Vegetable oil – 2-3 tablespoons

How to cook:

1. We take 1 large or 2 small chicken breasts, rinse the meat under cold running water from blood, dry it with paper kitchen towels from excess moisture, put it on a cutting board and cut off cartilage, hymen, and also breast bone, if any. After we cut the chicken into a small cube up to 1 – 1.5 centimeters and leave the cut on the board. Preheat the oven to 240 – 260 degrees Celsius.

2. Now turn on the stove to a medium level and put a pan on it with 2 – 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. After the fat warms up, carefully place the chicken breast pieces in it and simmer them, stirring with a kitchen spatula, until the moisture is completely evaporated. When the liquid let in by the meat has completely evaporated, sprinkle with salt, black pepper to taste and continue to fry the meat until golden brown for 10-12 minutes. Then move the pan aside and let the fried chicken cool slightly.

3. While frying the chicken, we prepare the cheese, cut off the paraffin peel from it and rub it on a coarse grater directly into a deep plate. Then add some salt and black pepper to it.

4. Meat and cheese are ready, you can start preparing the tomatoes, wash them under cold running water from any kind of contamination and dry with paper kitchen towels from excess liquid. Then we take 1 tomato, put it on a cutting board and cut off the place on which the stalk was attached to it, cut off about 1/4 of the entire fruit. We take a teaspoon and very carefully, so as not to damage the walls, remove all the pulp from the tomato. Prepare the rest of the tomatoes in the same way.

5. Now we divide the stew into 4 equal parts and put each of them in a separate tomato. Next, pour the stuffed tomatoes with a generous portion of mayonnaise, 2 to 3 tablespoons each. Then sprinkle them with shredded cheese. put in a glass non-stick form and send to the oven, preheated to the desired temperature.

Roast the tomatoes for 15 minutes until the cheese is completely melted. After the required time has elapsed, remove the form with tomatoes from the oven, holding the container on both sides with kitchen tacks. With the help of 2 kitchen spatulas, we lay out the tomatoes on plates and serve to the table, having previously decorated the dish with any greenery you like.

6. Tomatoes stuffed with chicken are served hot or cold, in the first version as a second hot dish, and in the second as an appetizer. This dish does not need any additions, but such tomatoes can be successfully combined with any side dish, for example, boiled rice, pasta, mashed potatoes, and these are just a few of the possible options. Enjoy!

Enjoy your meal!
Tips:
– Together with chicken breast, you can stew carrots, onions, sweet peppers, peas, boiled corn, zucchini, garlic or eggplant. Also, fried chicken can be mixed with any finely chopped herbs, such as dill, parsley, cilantro, basil or green onions.
– If desired, during the stew, the chicken can be seasoned with any spices that are suitable for cooking meat or poultry dishes, such as marjoram, red pepper, paprika, curry, sage, thyme, rosemary, savory, cinnamon, ginger and many others.
– Mayonnaise can be replaced with fat sour cream or cream.
– You can use any high melting cheese for powdering.
– Instead of chicken fillet, you can use the pulp from chicken thighs or drumsticks.