Easy Appetizer Recipes
Easy Italian Stuffed Tomato Recipe
Since these stuffed tomatoes are finger food, you will need to use cherry tomatoes. Big tomatoes are very hard to eat with the fingers, especially stuffed ones that tend to be messy and fall to pieces, spilling juice all down you! Cherry tomatoes look and taste good and are perfect for this appetizer recipe.
These cherry tomatoes are stuffed with a light and refreshing herby cream cheese mixture. Stuffed tomatoes recipes look very cute and they are also one of our more easy appetizer recipes. As long as you have all the ingredients in front of you, this stuffed tomato recipe does not take long to make and they keep well in the refrigerator for up to six hours if you want to make these appetizers ahead. Make ahead appetizer recipes can be really handy, especially if you are catering for a big party and you have all kinds of other recipes to prepare at the same time.
The lemon scented, creamy filling inside these stuffed tomatoes is really nice and the textures go together well also. You can use any kind of cress or daikon sprouts for the garnish. It just adds a splash of color to these otherwise red and white appetizers.
Italian Stuffed Tomatoes with Cream Cheese
Ingredients -
36 cherry tomatoes or 24 small tomatoes
4 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons daikon sprouts
16 oz softened cream cheese
2 tablespoons dry Italian salad dressing mix
Preparation:
Cut the top ⅓ off the tomatoes and reserve the tops.
Hollow out the inside, keeping the pulp and seeds for use in a future recipe or discard them.
Combine the cream cheese, dressing mixture, lemon juice, and milk in a bowl, then fill each hollowed out tomato with 1 teaspoon of the mixture.
Put the tops back on the tomatoes and poke the daikon sprouts into the cream cheese mixture visible between the top and base of the tomatoes as a garnish.
Serve chilled.
(Makes 36)
Photo Description:
These delicious little stuffed tomatoes are a really nice appetizer. They are one of our make ahead appetizers because they keep well in the refrigerator for half a day. Also, they do not take long to make and there is no cooking involved. This might be a simple appetizer recipe but the flavor is very nice and the sweet juicy tomatoes combine well with the slightly tart flavored cream cheese filling. Why not make this stuffed tomatoes recipe as a hors d'oeuvre for your dinner party or as part of your buffet spread?
