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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Southeast Asian >> Vietnamese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Slice off about 1/2" tomato top and scoop the seeds inside. | 2. Reserve pulp for sauce in a small bowl, set aside. | 3. Dry each side of tomato "cup" gently until dry with a paper towel. | 4. Fill each cup with the filling ingredients (pork, shiitake mushrooms, 2 TB fish sauce, sugar, ground pepper, shallots and scallion), making sure they are tightly packed in tomato. | 5. Over medium high heat, add olive oil to cover bottom of saute pan. | 6. When oil is hot, place tomatoes with the meat facing down | 7. Cook until surface of meat is nice and golden, or approximately 10-15 minutes. | 8. Transfer all tomatoes to roasting pan and bake for 40 minutes. | 9. SAUCE PREPARATION: Add the reserved tomato pulp to small saucepan and bring it to a boil. | 10. Simmer uncovered about 5-10 minutes and remove from heat. | 11. Mix with water, fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar then add it to your tomatoes. | 12. Serve over steamed rice and voila, you're done. =). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
tomato	4		ripe	167.44	37.128	8.736	1.456
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
garlic clove	2		ground	-	-	-	-
cilantro				-	-	-	-
pork	7	ounces	ground	746.172	0.0	27.6044	69.5964
shiitake mushroom	2			-	-	-	-
fish sauce	2	teaspoons		3.15	0.3276	0.4554	0.0009
sugar	1/2	tablespoon		27.531	6.8862	0.0	0.0
pepper	1/4	teaspoon	ground	1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
shallot	2		minced	230.4	53.76	8.0	0.32
scallion	1		chopped	32.0	7.34	1.83	0.19
water	2	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
fish sauce	1/2	tablespoon		3.15	0.3276	0.4554	0.0009
oyster sauce	1/2	tablespoon		4.59	0.9828	0.1215	0.0225
sugar	1/2	tablespoon		27.531	6.8862	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.