Grape Leaves
Grape Leaves

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, grape leaves. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cover the bottom of a large saucepan with a layer of grape leaves. De-stem the remaining leaves and place vein-side up on your work surface. Grape leaves, the leaves of the grapevine plant, are used in the cuisines of a number of cultures. They may be obtained fresh, or preserved in jars or cans.

Grape Leaves is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Grape Leaves is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have grape leaves using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Grape Leaves:
  1. Make ready 100 grape leaves (fresh is good, Orlando jar brand is good)
  2. Get 1 cup rice (Uncle Bens uncooked)
  3. Get 2 pounds ground lamb
  4. Prepare 1 stick soften butter
  5. Take to taste pepper
  6. Make ready to taste allspice
  7. Take 2 tsp salt
  8. Take 1 lemon juice in mixture
  9. Make ready 3 Tbl chicken bouillon (Lisa Marie chicken soup base)
  10. Prepare 1 lemon juice squeezed over at the end of cooking

Stuffed grape leaves are served as a main dish or appetizer. Grape leaves are medium to large, cordate, heart shaped having multiple lobes. 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.

Instructions to make Grape Leaves:
  1. Wash grape leaves and cut stems off.
  2. Mix lamb, spices, rice, spices and lemon.
  3. Add soft butter and mix.
  4. Place about 1 tablespoon of meat on the vein side of leaf. Squeeze meat in a line going across the width of leaf. Turn the sides of leaf in and roll up completely.
  5. Use a pan that has strainer insert or a pan with a rack on bottom. Line grape leaves on bottom, layer by crisscrossing each layer.
  6. In bowl dissolved 3 tablespoons of chicken bouillon in a approximately 8 cups water.
  7. Pour water mixture of grape leaves to cover top layer, use an inverted plate to hold down rolls. I use a heavy cup on top of plate for extra weight.
  8. Bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat and cook 20 to 30 minutes. Test by checking a roll for rice to be tender.
  9. I add one squeeze lemon in water before removing rolls from pan. Drain and serve warm or cold. Enjoy!

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. Grape leaves have been the Turkish tortilla for centuries. Using grape leaves as a wrap for different fillings kept hands clean and made a portable food item.

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