Farci recipes

Even with the often stony ground of the region, the Provence sunshine helps provide a rich variety of vegetables. Making stuffed vegetables, or légumes farcis, is a typically Provencal solution of combining imagination with abundant local ingredients to produce an interesting, low-cost and delicious meal.

The legumes typically "farcied" in Provence are Aubergine, Courgette, Oignon, Poivron, Tomate, and sometimes potatoes. Although any of these legumes can be prepared and served on their own, they should all be done together (a few of each) for a real presentation meal.

Stuffing (Farce) Recipe (12 people)
This is a "generic" stuffing that can be used for all the legumes. However, specific variations which should be used for each different legume are shown for each legume’s specific page.

lean salt pork (petit salé maigre) (50 g)
rice (50 g)
parmesan (100 g)
bread crumbs [chapelure]
onion (1) eggs (2)
garlic (1 clove)
basil (6 leaves)
olive oil
salt, pepper
Alternates:
bread (1 thick slice) soaked in milk or wine, in place of rice

Pre-Preparation
Scoop out the legumes, using the specific method for each, and put the contents aside for mixing with the stuffing. (The scooped out part of the legume is called the "chair de la légume" in French, and we refer to it as the contents.)
Cook and drain the rice, put it in a bowl for mixing. Instead of rice, you can soak a thick slice of bread in white wine or milk, and squeeze it dry just before mixing.
Chop the onion, basil and meat very finely.
Crush the garlic and grate the parmesan.
Beat the two eggs.

Preparation
"Blondir" the chopped onion with the olive oil (cook only until transparent).
Put the rice (or the well-squeezed bread) in with the onion. Add the well-chopped meat, basil, garlic and parmesan, and stir in the beaten eggs. Add salt and pepper and stir the mixture until it is dry, and remove it from the heat.

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Conversions
1 kg = 2.2 lbs
0.45 kg = 1 lb
1 lt = 1.06 qt
0.95 lt = 1 qt
30 g = 1 oz = 2 Tbs
60 g = 2 oz = 1/4 cup
115 g = 4 oz = 1/2 cup 180 g = 6 oz = 3/4 cup
225 g = 8 oz = 1 cup
450 g = 16 oz = 1 pint

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I don’t have measurements, but here’s my stuffed tomato. Recipe for 2

Pick a large tomato per person.
Pick a few tender basil leaves.
Olive oil.
Onion.
Garlic.

Cut the top off the tomato and scoop out the insides reserving a TBS.
Chop a couple TBS white or red onion.
Chop a clove of garlic.
Crumb a few pieces of really good bread (homemade if possible).
Chop the basil very fine.

Sauté the onion until nearly transparent. Add the garlic and continue until onion is completely transparent.

Add the bread crumbs and basil. Stir in the reserved TBS of tomato liquid. Add olive oil until it looks pretty moist. I add freshly ground pepper and you may want to add salt although we don’t care for it.

(You can combine bread crumbs and basil in the food processor and then add the reserved tomato and olive oil in it too. Save a lot of chopping if you’re in a hurry.)

Stuff the tomato with the bread mixture and bake at 350 F for 20 or 30 minutes. You can also wrap it in aluminum foil and put it on the charcoal grill if you like.

Great summer eating!

SalB: Shouldn’t there be a little cheese somewhere in that recipe? Donerail

Perhaps there should, but there is not.

Thank you so much ManuNice – I’ll go shopping immediately. What a beautiful part of the world you live in. Kind regards, David.

Thank you SalB – I’m most grateful for your prompt help. Kind regards, David.

SalB:I guess you’re not watching your girlish figure with that recipe

LVB, No, I don’t spend a lot of time watching my figure. My husband drags me out every morning for a four mile (minimum) walk. Is the recipe high calorie? I never thought about it. I guess I just figured all those tomatoes were good for me. I make a really neat bread with 7-grain cereal, psyllium, flax seed, whole wheat and sunflower seeds that I use for the stuffing and it may have a few extra calories but it’s really excellent bread. I usually serve it with a fish of some sort. Should I be worried?

Boy, I hope not. We love it and we have so many tomatoes right now. Have you ever had the recipe where they stuff a tomato with an egg? We had it in Grasse (cooked by nuns, donerail) and it was amazing. I’ve never figured out how to get the egg in the tomato. If someone has directions for that recipe, I’d love it.

SalB: A Biker Chick gave me a recipe which might be the one that you are looking for.

Select one large ripe tomato
Cut off the top of the tomato
Select a Jumbo size egg and place the egg on top of the tomato
Drop a 3 pound brick on the presentation from a height of 4 feet
Gather up what you can and place in a sauce pan
Sautee carefully for 10 – 15 minutes
Salt and Pepper to taste

Donerail

Sounds more like something you would enjoy.

SalB: It is a recipe that takes some getting used to. Donerail

Is it one of Mrs. donerail’s specialties?

LOL

Don’t you get it ? She’s actually the ‘biker chick’ he’s referring to !

CRC

SalB/crc95: No, that recipe is not one of Mrs. Donerails specialties. Now that you mention it, I should add it to our menu. I prepare the menu on Sunday for what I want to eat the following week. She is very busy, earning a living for the both us. Donerail

Cool. Are you a househusband?

SalB: Of course not. Mrs. Donerail takes care of the housework as well. I need the time to help me improve my Harley riding and socialization skills. Now excuse me, I have to prepare next week’s menu.

Donerail

Obviously you haven’t been liberated. Too bad for Mrs. donerail.

SalB: Mrs Donerail is ecstatic. I have told you before, I offen hear her use my name and God’s in the same sentence. I am embarrassed to be such a positive male role model. Donerail

I can only imagine how she uses God’s name and yours in the same sentence. It is unprintable here and you are no male role model. You could at least do the laundry for the poor woman. Does she have to mow the yard too?

SalB: Stop that. What is wrong with Mrs Donerail mowing the yard? I use to do it but it cut in to my Harley riding time. Mrs. Donerail saw that and volunteered to do the mowing. She is a Saint, what can I say? BTW, is your husband deaf or very hard of hearing? Just checking. Donerail

Hardly. We’re both musicians.

If Mrs. donerail wants to mow the yard, it’s fine with me. I’m glad someone can take care of you. At least she’ll be able to manage nicely by herself after you wrap yourself around a tree at 100 mhp. Good for her.

There, SalB. It’s stuff like that that make you sound like a republican

CRC

crc95: Good observation. Sometimes I think SalB just likes to see herself write. I need to add some French dishes to Mrs Donerail’s upcoming weekly menu. Anybody with some suggestions? Remember, I don’t want to burden her with things that are too elaborate. I am very considerate in that regard. Donerail

Suggest a quiche or fondue. Poulet roti is about as easy as it gets.

crc95, My husband is a Democrat and he helps around the house. Is that supposed to be a Republican thing? I would have expected more male Democrats to help around the house. Conservative males are not particularly helpful . . . at least stereotypically.

ouch