Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
The term sarma derives from Turkish verb "sarmak," which means to wrap or to roll. It can be prepared with rice and spices (vegetarian) or with rice and ground meat. To find a recipe with ground meat check out this one.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves) using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
- Prepare 1 lb ground beef
- Prepare 1 dry onion, chopped
- Prepare 1/2 bunch parsley, chopped
- Make ready 1/3 cup rice-bulgur mix
- Prepare 1 tbs pepper paste
- Prepare 1 tbs tomato paste
- Prepare 1/4 cup hot water
- Make ready 1 Jar grape leaves ( we will use 2 rolls)
- Get 1/3 cup butter for sauce
- Prepare 2 tbs tomato paste for sauce
It will take time to prepare this recipe. A Very traditional healthy and well known recipe - "Dolma", all around in the Middle East. I cooked with ground beef, , there is also. While cooking the stuffed grape leaves, prepare your sauce.
Instructions to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
- Take 2 rolls of leaves from the jar, put into bowl filled with cold water.you will rinse the leaves getting rid of salt, keep the leaves in it, I usually start to prepare my stuffing mixture first. One dry onion, 1/3 cup of rice bulgur mix, 1/2 bunch parsley, 1 tablespoon pepper paste, 1 tbs tomato paste, and 1 lb of ground beef, salt pepper, put into a bowl. Add 1/4 cup of hot water and mix good. This is your stuffing.
- The Stems on the leaves will help you to pick them up easily, take 4-5 of leaves, snip of the stems and put them into your side of bowl, this will make them dry and ready to work.
- Place 4-5 whole grape leaves stem side is towards you, shiny part on the bottom, take some mixture and start rolling
- Close the sides
- Roll tightly, cigar shape
- Line the cooking pot with some ripped leaves, then place stuffed leaves, this will prevent leaves from sticking to the bottom of the pot, while cooking.
- Boil water, place an other small bowl over boiling water with 1 tbs tomato paste and 1/4 butter in it, butter will melt with the steam, then pour boiling water into paste and butter mixture, stir well, water must be enough to cover stuffed leaves.
- Pour sauce over the stuffed leaves
- Place a plate over leaves, to prevent them floating, or opening, cook low medium, about 35 mins
- Take the plate out, serve with thick "suzme" yogurt with garlic
This is traditional Turkish dish called yaprak sarmasi, or just sarma, like most people in Turkey call it. They are the ultimate finger food and are often served as a side dish with a dot of yogurt. As you may remember I shared stuffed grape leaves (hot meal) recipe before and I told you there is also a cold version of this meal. Today is the day to share cold stuffed grape leaves. The best grape leaves come from the Turkish city called Tokat.
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