Title: Cottage Cheese Stuffed Tomatoes
Categories: Side dish
Yield: 6 Servings

6	lg	Tomatoes, ripe
12	oz	Cottage cheese - creamed, or garden-style
2	tb	Salad dressing - mayonnaise-type
1/8	ts	Pepper
		Chopped dried chives - as desired
6		Lettuce cups

Wash and dry tomatoes. Remove cores. Cut each tomato into wedges three-fourths of the way down. Pull apart slightly. Mix cottage cheese, salad dressing, and pepper.

Stuff tomatoes with the cottage cheese mixture. Sprinkle with chives as desired. Serve in lettuce cups.

Calories per serving: About 125

VARIATION: Tuna Stuffed Tomatoes -- Prepare tomatoes as above. Stuff with tuna salad (see separate recipe for "French Toasted Tuna Sandwiches") About 175 calories per serving.

Source: FOOD -- by U.S. Department of Agriculture Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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