Baked Tomatoes With Quinoa Corn And Green Chiles Recipes

Steps:

• Stir onion in a pan and sautee' until soft. Add corn and stir about a minute. Add green chilies and cook for another minute. Stir in Oregano, oil, lime juice, 1/4 tsp salt, cumin and black pepper.
• Cut tops off tomatoes, set aside.
• Carefully scoop out tomato pulp leaving shells intact.
• Drain pulp through a sieve over a bowl pressing with the back of a spoon to extract liquid.
• Reserve 1/1/4 cups liquid and discard remaining liquid.
• Sprinkle tomatoes with 1/2 tsp salt and invert them on a wire rack. Let stand 30 minutes.then dry insides with a paper towel.
• Place qkuinoa in a fine sieve and place sieve in a large bowl. AAACover quinoa with water. Using hands rub the grains together for 30 seconds. Rinse and drain. Repeat the procedure twice. Drain well.
• Combine reserved tomato liquid, quinoa, 1/4 cup water and the remaining sdalt in a medium pan and bring to a boil.
• Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork.
• Add quinoa mixture to corn, onion and green chilies mixture Toss well.
• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spoon about 3/4 cup corn mixture into each tomato.
• Divide cheese evenly among tomatoes.
• Place tomatoes (and tops if desired) on a jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
• Remove from oven and pre-heat broiler.
• Broil tomatoes 1 1/2 minutes or until cheese melts.
• Placae tomato tops on and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add corn, onions, garlic; cook stirring occasionally, for 2 to 3 minutes or until onion is tender.
• Add tomato, chiles, and salt; cook, stirring occasionally, for 1 to 2 minutes or until heated through.