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

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Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice is something that I have loved my whole life.

Stuffed Grape Leaves are popular in several Mediterranean countries and in the Middle East. It has different names depending on the region. The Greek call it dolmathes and the Egyptian and the Lebanese call it Mahshi Wara' inab.

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

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. Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves are my all-time favorite dish that I grew up eating and actually grew up helping my mom make! In Arabic, we call it "warak enab" which means leaves of grapes, and traditionally it's stuffed with rice and meat or rice and veggies.

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

While this is the rice and beef version, I also have the vegetarian stuffed grape leaves recipe if you prefer. Refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. Stack stuffed grape leaves in a circular fashion in the pot. Keep reading to see Eleni's recipe for stuffed grapevine leaves with rice. Dolmadakia (a.k.a., stuffed grape leaves) has long been a fundamental dish in Mediterranean cooking and is found in many different forms throughout the world, including Central Asia, India, and the Middle East.

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