Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, stuffed grape leaves with rice and meat. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
These bundles of meat and rice wrapped in rolled grape leaves are a favorite dish in Greece. Dolmathakia me kima, or ντολμαδάκια με κιμά in Greek, is pronounced dohl-mah-THAHK-yah meh kee-MAH. Knead all ingredients in a bowl.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed grape leaves with rice and meat using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Grape Leaves with Rice and Meat:
- Prepare leaves grape
- Make ready 1 step
- Make ready 1 cup rice
- Take 1/2 cup tomato minced
- Make ready 1/2 cup onion minced
- Prepare bunch parsley
- Prepare 1 cup ground beef/chicken (optional)
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
- Prepare 3 step
- Take 2 cups water
- Prepare 1 maggie cube
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder or more if desired
- Make ready 1 cup lemon juice or more if desired
- Get 2 step
- Prepare 1-2 potatoes sliced
- Prepare 1 tomatoe sliced
- Get meat ribs (optional)
Remove the hard stems from grape leaves and place on a plate. Stack stuffed grape leaves in a circular fashion in the pot. Simply filled with rice, ground beef and layered with fresh lemon. I grew up eating stuffed grape leaves.
Steps to make Stuffed Grape Leaves with Rice and Meat:
- Wash rice and drain. Combined all ingredients in step 1.
- Prepare the pot. Arrange slices tomatoes and potatoes on the pot. If wished to add spareribs for more taste, then it's the time. but it will do without meat
- Stuffing: Get 1 leaf and lay flat on a saucer or plate, scope rice mixture on the middle of the leaf and arrange.
- Fold the side of the leaf. Then forld the upper part of the leaf then roll to make a log.
- Arrange each log of stuffed leaf on top of potatoes and tomatoes on the pot. (I used potatoes only coz my daugther don' t like tomatoes.. but i did put in rice mixture 😂😂😂) Repeat until all rice mixture is consumed.
- Step 3 Dissolve maggie cube with water. Then pour on your pre arranged stuffed grape leaves. (If rice need more water you can add more). Put lemon juice also (if you wish to have a sour taste you can add mor). Salt to taste. Pepper powder if u want it little hot or more. Cover. And let boil for 2 to 3 minutes on high fire. Continue cooking on low fire until rice is cooked.. but make sure it's low enough to not burn the bottom of the pot.
They are an acquired taste being that the grape leaves sit in brine and stuffed in jars. The brine soaks into the leaves and at the first turn of the jar you can smell the aroma of…brine. 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. Oh well, because of these delicious Meat & Rice Stuffed Grape Leaves!
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