Amvrosia

Greek Gemista Stuffed Vegetables - Fresh, Never Frozen (350g)

Name: Greek Gemista Stuffed Vegetables - Fresh, Never Frozen (350g)
Brand: Amvrosia
SKU: GF5079
Price: 10.45 EUR
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Product Description

Tomatoes and peppers baked in their own oil, with nothing from an animal in the tray.

Gemista means "the filled ones", and it is the dish a Greek kitchen makes when the vegetables are worth building a meal around rather than serving beside one. Tomatoes and peppers are hollowed, filled with rice, and baked with potato and aubergine around them until everything has taken the same oil. Amvrosia makes them in Sindos, outside Thessaloniki, and chills the tray rather than freezing it. Boiled rice is the largest ingredient at 56%, tomato and pepper together are 17%, and 6% extra virgin olive oil runs through all of it. What arrives is one sealed 350g tray that has never been through a freezer.

That olive oil figure is the recipe rather than a detail. Gemista belongs to the ladera, the family of Greek dishes cooked in olive oil rather than with a spoonful of it added at the end, and it is what gives the tomato its depth and the potato its softness. The rice is meant to be soft: it swells inside the vegetable and takes up the juice, which is the whole point of the dish and the opposite of a rice served loose and separate. The seasoning is plain in the Greek domestic sense: tomato, onion, garlic and parsley, with nothing sharp in it.

One thing is worth knowing before you order, because it sets the expectation right. There is no meat, no dairy, and no egg in this recipe, and a full tray carries 434 kcal, 8,1g of fibre, and 2,14g of salt. It is a vegetable main course, not a meat-and-starch bake, and in Greece it comes to the table the way it is built: on its own with bread and a piece of feta, or beside grilled fish. Ordered as a light plant-based lunch, it is generous. Ordered expecting a moussaka, it will read small.

No preservatives, and chilled rather than frozen: how that works

Fresh food ordered online always raises the same question, which is how it keeps without either a freezer or a preservative. The answer here is the packaging. The tray is sealed in a protective atmosphere, and that is what keeps the dish without anything being added to it.

No preservatives in the recipe. Twelve ingredients, and the list printed on the tray is the whole story.
Keep refrigerated below +7°C, and once opened, eat within 24 hours.
Never frozen at any point, which is why the pepper keeps its skin, and the potato does not turn grainy. The use-by date is printed on the tray.

How to use it

Oven, 180°C for 13 to 15 minutes once preheated. Pierce the film in two spots first; remove it before serving.
Microwave, 3 to 4 minutes at 800W, same piercing step. Keep the tray clear of the oven element and the grill.
A plant-based lunch on its own, with bread to take up the oil at the bottom of the tray.
As a warm vegetable course beside grilled fish or meat, which is how a Greek table uses it.
With a piece of feta alongside, if you are not keeping the plate vegan.

Nutritional Components

A vegetable dish that behaves like one: what is actually in this tray

Gemista are built from the vegetable outwards. 56% boiled rice, 17% tomato and pepper, then aubergine, potato and onion, bound by 6% extra virgin olive oil and nothing else. There is no meat, no milk and no egg anywhere in the recipe, and it shows in every line of the table below.

What the numbers mean in practice

2,14g of salt in a full tray: 0,61g per 100g.
8,1g of fibre per tray: 2,3g per 100g, from the pepper, the aubergine and the potato rather than from anything added.
6% extra virgin olive oil: the highest proportion in this range, and the reason the dish is classified as a ladero rather than as a stuffed vegetable.
Saturated fat at 1,0g per 100g, 7,3% of the energy in the dish. Almost all of the fat here is the olive oil.
7g of protein per tray: this is a vegetable and rice dish, and it is not where the protein on your plate should come from. A piece of feta or a bowl of yogurt alongside covers it.
No preservatives: the tray holds because it is sealed in a protective atmosphere, not because anything was added to the recipe.

Nutritional values per 100g

Energy: 518 kJ / 124 kcal
Fat: 6,7g — of which saturates: 1,0g
Carbohydrates: 12,8g — of which sugars: 2,8g
Fibre: 2,3g
Protein: 2,0g
Salt: 0,61g

Per 350g tray: 1.813 kJ / 434 kcal, 23,5g fat, 3,5g saturates, 44,8g carbohydrates, 9,8g sugars, 8,1g fibre, 7,0g protein, 2,14g salt.

Ingredients

56% boiled rice (water, rice), 17% tomato and pepper in varying proportions, aubergine, potato, onion, 6% extra virgin olive oil, parsley, sunflower oil, double-concentrated tomato paste, cooking salt, garlic, spices.

Allergens

No allergenic ingredients in the recipe. May contain traces of milk, wheat, sesame seeds, mustard, egg, celery, soybeans, sulphites, fish, shrimps and crabs.

Produced and packed by Amvrosia SA, Sindos Industrial Zone NB6, Thessaloniki. All figures are taken from the printed label on the tray, which prevails over any other source.

Useful Information

Storage guide: below +7°C, and what the sealed tray does

This is a fresh, chilled dish, not an ambient or frozen one, and everything about how it's kept follows from that. It travels cold, it lives in the fridge, and the sealed film is what protects it until you open it.

How to store it correctly

Keep refrigerated below +7°C: put it in the fridge as soon as it arrives, in the coldest part rather than the door.
Do not freeze it: pepper skin collapses when it thaws, and potato turns grainy, which is exactly what a chilled tray avoids.
Leave the film sealed: the protective atmosphere inside the tray is doing the preservation work, and once the seal is broken, that protection ends.

Freshness timeline

Unopened, refrigerated: keeps until the use-by date printed on the tray. Check that date when the parcel arrives.
Opened: eat within 24 hours, kept refrigerated.
Heated: eat straight away. Do not reheat a second time.

Suggested preparation

Remove the outer cardboard sleeve.
Pierce the sealing film in two spots with a fork.
Oven: 180°C in a preheated oven for 13 to 15 minutes. Temperature and time vary with the oven.
Microwave: 3 to 4 minutes at 800W.
Remove the film and serve. The tray must not come into contact with the oven element or the grill.

Product details

Format: single sealed tray, ready to heat
Net weight: 350g
Origin: made and packed in Greece, Sindos Industrial Zone, Thessaloniki
Producer: Amvrosia SA
Diet: entirely plant-based, no meat, no dairy, no eggs in the recipe
Storage: refrigerated, below +7°C, never frozen
Allergens: no allergenic ingredients, traces possible

Why olive oil defines this dish

Ladera is the Greek word for dishes cooked in olive oil rather than seasoned with it at the end, and gemista are the best known of them. At 6%, the oil here is not a dressing; it is the cooking medium: it carries the tomato into the rice, keeps the aubergine from drying out, and pools at the bottom of the tray, which is why bread belongs next to this plate. It is also why the dish reheats well, since the oil protects the vegetables from the second heat instead of leaving them to dry out. The oil is the recipe, not the finish.