Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuffed grape leaves. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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, depending on your appetite. Serve with good crusty bread and a Greek salad, if desired. Mix the lamb, onions, rice, pine nuts, salt, pepper, and mint into a bowl until evenly combined.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed grape leaves using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make stuffed grape leaves:
- Get ingredients for stuff leaves
- Get 1 jar of grape leaves
- Take 2 cup cooked rice
- Prepare 1 1/2 lb ground lamb or finely chopped lamb
- Make ready 1 marjoram to taste
- Prepare 1 minced garlic to taste
- Take 1 salt and pepper to taste (can be white or black)
- Prepare 1 rosemary to taste
- Get 1 marinara sauce
- Prepare marinara sauce ingredients
- Prepare 1 medium onion chopped finely
- Prepare 1 can 32 oz tomatoe sauce
- Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
- Get 1 salt and pepper to taste
- Prepare 2 tbsp minced garlic
- Get 1 tsp basil
- Take 8 oz tomato paste
Fold the sides over the rice and roll the leaf into a small log. In this recipe, grape leaves are stuffed with a tasty meat and rice mixture, seasoned with warm spices (allspice and cumin) and loaded with fresh herbs in the form of parsley, dill and mint. Then, once stuffed, the grape leaves are cooked in a tasty lemony broth. Depending on where you are in the world, stuffed grape leaves feature a simple rice and onion pilaf that includes meat (usually ground beef or ground lamb), vegetables, or neither—cooked in broth until soft.
Steps to make stuffed grape leaves:
- add lamb to a skillet on high heat put in spices and onions half a medium onion finely chopped
- take grape leaves from jar they are usually packed in very tight don't tear them getting them out. rinse off the brine of leaves speard them out if they are small use two or three over lapping. mix the ground lamb and rice together. the leaves should be about 2 1/2"- 3"(inches). spoon enough to go almost touching the sides in a line across the leaves should be no more than 1 inch wide line. fold the sides inward then roll it up like a mini burrito or eggroll.
- after rolling up all the leave put in baking pan add marinara sauce over top bake in oven 350°F Fahrenheit for about 30-45 minutes.
- marinara sauce instructions add all but the tomato paste put all into a sauce pot also I couldn't put it but half the onion gets cooked with the lamb. cook till boiling simmer adding tomato paste for about 20-30minutes
Then, once stuffed, the grape leaves are cooked in a tasty lemony broth. Depending on where you are in the world, stuffed grape leaves feature a simple rice and onion pilaf that includes meat (usually ground beef or ground lamb), vegetables, or neither—cooked in broth until soft. Serve stuffed grape leaves with a yogurt sauce like tzatziki, tomato sauce, fresh feta, or with a healthy drizzle of olive oil. Fill skillet with closely fitted layers of stuffed leaves. Put heavy plat, upside down, on top to prevent leaves from unrolling.
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