Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves)
Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Yaprak sarma is a traditional dish in Turkey that is typically grape vine leaves rolled and filled with minced meat. This vegan version has a rice filling that Filling and rolling the vine leaves is a bit time-consuming, but you will end up with an enormous amount of yaprak sarma that you can eat from for. "Etli Yaprak Sarmasi" aka stuffed grape leaves is one of the most popular meals in Turkey. There is two kind of stuffed grape leaves.

Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves) using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
  1. Prepare 1 lb ground beef
  2. Get 1 dry onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 1/2 bunch parsley, chopped
  4. Make ready 1/3 cup rice-bulgur mix
  5. Take 1 tbs pepper paste
  6. Prepare 1 tbs tomato paste
  7. Get 1/4 cup hot water
  8. Make ready 1 Jar grape leaves ( we will use 2 rolls)
  9. Get 1/3 cup butter for sauce
  10. Make ready 2 tbs tomato paste for sauce

Sarma are sometimes also called dolma (from dolmak, to fill or to stuff), but strictly speaking that applies to stuffed vegetables. Yaprak sarma is a traditional dish in Turkey that is typically grape vine leaves rolled and filled with minced meat. Yaprak sarma is a traditional dish in Turkey that is typically grape vine leaves rolled and filled with minced meat. This vegan version has a rice filling.

Instructions to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Place 4-5 whole grape leaves stem side is towards you, shiny part on the bottom, take some mixture and start rolling
  5. Close the sides
  6. Roll tightly, cigar shape
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. Pour sauce over the stuffed leaves
  11. Place a plate over leaves, to prevent them floating, or opening, cook low medium, about 35 mins
  12. Take the plate out, serve with thick "suzme" yogurt with garlic

I have made these sarma several times recently and each time the taste was different. I personally liked the last ones in which the lemony taste was more pronounced. As with all these meze, there is leverage for personal preference and that's. Sarma made with vine leaves are called yaprak sarması (lit. 'leaf sarma') or yaprak dolması (lit. 'leaf dolma') in Turkey, yarpaq dolması (lit. 'leaf A vine leaf roll is a dish consisting of cooked grape-vine leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings. Stuffed vine leaves without meat are sometimes called.

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