Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, stuff grape leaves with meat and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Dolmathakia me Kima: Stuffed Grape Leaves With Meat and Rice. (Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.) These bundles of meat and rice wrapped in rolled grape leaves are a favorite dish in Greece. These Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves (Warak Enab) are made with a spiced ground beef and rice mixture - a delicious Mediterranean dish commonly served as an In Arabic, we call it "warak enab" which means leaves of grapes, and traditionally it's stuffed with rice and meat or rice and veggies. These stuffed grape leaves are different than the "other" ones you may find at Greek restaurants called dolma.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stuff grape leaves with meat and rice using 35 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:
- Prepare meat
- Take 1 2/3 lb ground meat
- Make ready 1 lb pan sausage I used Odoms Tennessee Pride mild
- Prepare 1 stick butter
- Prepare 1 large onion chopped
- Get rice
- Get 1 2/3 cup long grain rice
- Get 5 cup water
- Prepare grape leaves
- Make ready 32 oz wet one pound dry grape leaves
- Get 4 quart water
- Take 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- Make ready 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
- Get 1 tbsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready spices
- Take 2 bay leaf
- Make ready 1 tsp thyme
- Get 1 tbsp rosemary oil
- Take 1 tsp saffron threads
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp marjoram
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp dillweed
- Get 1 tbsp Hungarian paprika
- Get sauce
- Take 29 oz tomato sauce
- Make ready 29 oz tomato puree
- Take 1/2 cup sugar
- Get 1 tsp sweet basil
- Make ready 1 tsp whole leaf oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 tsp granulated garlic powder
- Make ready garnish optional
- Get crushed red pepper flakes
Stuffing grape leaves used to intimidate to me. It seemed like such a complicated, foreign process. Tony makes the best meat-stuffed grape leaves I've ever tasted (fingers crossed he'll share the recipe with us Continue rolling the leaf till it forms a neat rolled package. Do not roll too tightly; the rice will.
Steps to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:
- Drain and rinse your grape leaves add to the pot of water with vinegar, sugar salt, boil 20 minutes then add baking soda it will bubble up stir well cover remove from heat.
- Cook your sausage add chopped onion ground meat and butter stir well
- After the meat is browned add spices crush the bay leaves up before adding
- After spices are in and stirred in well add the rice and water stir in well cover let simmer till water craters form stir once cover amd let sit 20 minutes
- Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit
- While that is sitting make your sauce to a pot add sauce amd puree add salt, sugar, oregano, basil, and garlic. Stir bring up to simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally after 15 minutes cover remove from heat.
- Take two leaves put 1 and a half tablespoons of meat rice filling in center fold sides over to middle then roll from bottom to top keeping sides in repeat 47 times
- When all are rolled and on pan add sauce on top bake in oven 20-25 minutes
- Garnish if you like
Rinse well in cold water to wash away any brine. Use imperfect leaves for layering evenly in Do not roll too tightly; rice needs room to expand. Fill skillet with closely fitted layers of stuffed leaves. This recipe for Stuffed Grape Leaves is another one of my favorite popular Romanian recipes that I want to share with you. These grape leaves are stuffed with ground meat and rice, topped with a tomato sauce and baked to perfection.
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