Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice
Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, stuff grape leaves with meat and rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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. Place a small amount of mixture in leave with the vine side out.

Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuff grape leaves with meat and rice using 35 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:
  1. Prepare meat
  2. Prepare 1 2/3 lb ground meat
  3. Take 1 lb pan sausage I used Odoms Tennessee Pride mild
  4. Get 1 stick butter
  5. Prepare 1 large onion chopped
  6. Prepare rice
  7. Take 1 2/3 cup long grain rice
  8. Take 5 cup water
  9. Get grape leaves
  10. Get 32 oz wet one pound dry grape leaves
  11. Take 4 quart water
  12. Take 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
  13. Make ready 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
  14. Get 1 tbsp salt
  15. Take 1/2 cup sugar
  16. Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  17. Prepare spices
  18. Make ready 2 bay leaf
  19. Make ready 1 tsp thyme
  20. Make ready 1 tbsp rosemary oil
  21. Make ready 1 tsp saffron threads
  22. Take 1 1/2 tsp marjoram
  23. Get 1 tsp salt
  24. Get 1 tsp dillweed
  25. Take 1 tbsp Hungarian paprika
  26. Prepare sauce
  27. Take 29 oz tomato sauce
  28. Take 29 oz tomato puree
  29. Make ready 1/2 cup sugar
  30. Prepare 1 tsp sweet basil
  31. Make ready 1 tsp whole leaf oregano
  32. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  33. Get 2 tsp granulated garlic powder
  34. Prepare garnish optional
  35. Get crushed red pepper flakes

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. Simply filled with rice, ground beef and layered with fresh lemon. I grew up eating stuffed grape leaves.

Steps to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:
  1. Drain and rinse your grape leaves add to the pot of water with vinegar, sugar salt, boil 20 minutes then add baking soda it will bubble up stir well cover remove from heat.
  2. Cook your sausage add chopped onion ground meat and butter stir well
  3. After the meat is browned add spices crush the bay leaves up before adding
  4. After spices are in and stirred in well add the rice and water stir in well cover let simmer till water craters form stir once cover amd let sit 20 minutes
  5. Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit
  6. While that is sitting make your sauce to a pot add sauce amd puree add salt, sugar, oregano, basil, and garlic. Stir bring up to simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally after 15 minutes cover remove from heat.
  7. Take two leaves put 1 and a half tablespoons of meat rice filling in center fold sides over to middle then roll from bottom to top keeping sides in repeat 47 times
  8. When all are rolled and on pan add sauce on top bake in oven 20-25 minutes
  9. Garnish if you like

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. Stuffed Grape Leaves are popular in several Mediterranean countries and in the Middle East.

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