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Creole Tomatoes

Type: Vegetables
Courses: Side dish
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

4   Tomatoes - firm (large)
1   Onion - finely chopped (small)
2   Green peppers - chopped fine (small)
  Salt
  Cayenne pepper
4 tablespoons 60mlButter - (or marg.), divided
1/2 cup 118mlWater
2 tablespoons 30mlFlour - all-purpose
1 cup 237mlHalf-and-half
  Toast

Recipe Instructions

Core tomatoes, and cut in hafl crosswise; place cut side up in a shallow baking dish. Sprinkle onion, green pepper, salt, and cayenne pepper over tomato halves. Place a small amount of butter on top of each tomato half.

Pour water in dish. Bake, uncovered, at 375for 20 to 30 minutes or until tomatoes are tender.

Melt remaining butter in a skillet; add flour and cook until flour turns brown. Add half-and-half; cook, stirring constantly, about 3 minutes longer. Serve tomatoes on toast, and pour sauce around them.

Source:
Southern Living Magazine, June, 1974.

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