Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, stuffed grape leaves. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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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 appetizer! Stuffed grape leaves, also known as dolmas, are a popular cuisine in Israel and have certain characteristics we associate with that part of the world (lamb spiced with baharat, for example), but. 'Stuffed Grape Leaves' is one of the most popular Turkish dishes. It is one of those dishes that always requested by everyone.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed grape leaves using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make stuffed grape leaves:
- Get 1 1/4 lb lean ground beef or lamb
- Take 3/4 cup uncooked rice
- Get 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped fine
- Make ready 1/2 stick of butter
- Prepare 1 large onion chopped fine
- Prepare 2 grated cloves of garlic
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp pepper
- Make ready 3 tbsp chopped pine nuts
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 lemon
- Make ready 16 oz jarred grape leaves
These can either be a main dish or an appetizer. Dolmades are grape leaves that are stuffed with various ingredients. I had never eaten grape leaves before and the idea of stuffing them with a tasty filling sounded really good. This favorite stuffed grape leaf has dill, mint, ground beef, and rice.
Instructions to make stuffed grape leaves:
- put butter in a skillet with onions and garlic cook til tender
- in a bowl add meat, chopped pine nuts, parsley, salt, pepper, and onion and garlic mixture
- mix meat well by hand
- separate and rince each leave and take the hard stems off
- lay leave shiny side down, put about one teaspoon of filling on the fat end of the leave in the length you want them
- roll over filling once, tuck each end in and continue to roll
- place a few broken leaves in the bottom of a deep pan and place Ur rolled leaves seem side down in the bottom
- pack rolled leaves in the pot tightly
- cut zest off of the lemon in stripes just the yellow part add in with Ur leaves
- once they are all rolled add olive oil and 1 1/4 cups of water over the leaves. place a heavy plate upside down on top of leaves place a lid on pot and simmer for about an hour
- when finished remove them from pot and place in serving dish. serve warm or cold
Dolmathakia me Kima: Stuffed Grape Leaves With Meat and Rice. Stuffed Grape Leaves (Greek Dolmades) are often served as part of a meze (appetizer) plate. Too often they come from a can and are not fresh. A wide variety of grape stuffed leaves options are available to you, such as preservation process, processing type, and packaging. Simmering the stuffed grape leaves in the lemon really balances out the potential heaviness of the meat and rice.
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