Stuffed Tomatoes á la Abadesa

Ingredients

• tomatoes
• truffles (trufas)
• minced cooked meat (picadillo de carne cocida)
• hard-boiled eggs
• melted butter (mantequilla)
• fine breadcrumbs (ralladuras de pan)

Instructions

1. Halve the tomatoes across their width, remove seeds, and scoop out the pulp.
2. Sieve the pulp and mix it into a filling of truffles, minced cooked meat and chopped hard-boiled eggs; fill the tomatoes.
3. Put melted butter in a flameproof dish and set the tomatoes in it under a thick layer of fine breadcrumbs.
4. Finish cooking over low fire with embers on the lid and coals below.