Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, stuffed grape leaves. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to 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' is one of the most popular Turkish dishes. It is one of those dishes that always requested by everyone. It is not made that often because it takes time to stuff and roll the leaves.
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:
- Make ready 1 1/4 lb lean ground beef or lamb
- Prepare 3/4 cup uncooked rice
- Prepare 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped fine
- Prepare 1/2 stick of butter
- Get 1 large onion chopped fine
- Take 2 grated cloves of garlic
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp pepper
- Prepare 3 tbsp chopped pine nuts
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 lemon
- Take 16 oz jarred grape leaves
With a vibrant herb and lemon-infused rice filling, they are perfect as appetizers, snacks. Are stuffed grape leaves bad for you? Grape leaves are both low in calories and high in fiber. They also have high amounts of vitamin A and vitamin K.
Steps 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
They have a very high antioxidant content. "These are grape leaves, stuffed with a tantalizing mixture of rice, fresh dill, mint and lemon. 'Yum' is the only one word to describe these. These can either be a main dish or an appetizer. Dolmathakia: Stuffed Grape Leaves With Rice and Herbs. While Americans tend to think of stuffed grape leaves as a Greek delicacy, dolmadaki may have originated in Turkey or Armenia. A wide variety of grape stuffed leaves options are available to you, such as preservation process, processing type, and packaging.
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