Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat
Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, stuffed vine leaves with rice and minced meat. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The vine leaves are stuffed with minced meat, rice and herbs, and the egg-lemon sauce complements them and brings them to another level. Perhaps the wrapping up of the stuffing inside the leaves is a bit time consuming, but the end result will totally compensate you. Preparation: Heat the oil and sauté the finely chopped onion until translucent, Greek Stuffed Vine Leaves is one of the highlights of Greek cuisine.

Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed vine leaves with rice and minced meat using 10 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:
  1. Prepare 1000 g grape leaves _ pickles _
  2. Make ready 3 cups short \ round grain rice (washed & drained)
  3. Get 500 g minced meat
  4. Make ready 1 onion finely chopped
  5. Prepare 2 cloves garlic minced
  6. Get 1/2 tsp dry mint
  7. Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice
  8. Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  10. Get 1/3 tsp 7 spices

Some dolmades recipe variations besides rice, herbs and seasonings also include minced meat (beef and/or pork). Refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. 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.

Instructions to make Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:
  1. Soak grape leaves in water, then wash very well for several times, keep in a strainer to drain, trim extra stems
  2. Filling preparation : - in a deep bowl ; add, rice, meat, vegetable oil, dry mint, onion, garlic, 7 spices, salt and lemon juice, mix well untill well combined
  3. Place one grape leave on a flat surface,(tray, plate or granite / marble surface)
  4. Place suitable amount of filling (must be at the center), fold the bottom of the leave on the mixture, then fold the sides over so as they are closed, then roll it to gain a finger shape1. Repeat the previous step untill you finish all the grape leaves
  5. For cooking the grape leaves ;
  6. 2 kg of lamb / beef meat with bones, 1 cups lemon juice (less or more as desired), salt (to taste), 1 tbsp olive oil
  7. Apply a pinch of salt, cinnamon, and 7 spices on meat from all sides to taste
  8. In a wide deep pot, layer the grape leaves over the meat layer in a presentable way
  9. Add salt, 7 spices & olive oil and cover with water, add heavy weight over them, and cover the pot
  10. Put on medium fire and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to the minimum, and let simmer slowly, untill well cooked
  11. When reaching the desired doneness, take off the weight, add lemon juice, leave for about 5 to 10 minutes, then take off the fire.
  12. This cooking process takes about 3 hours
  13. In a soup bowl, pure the sauce, and then pure the grape leaves In serving dish
  14. It is served hot, with some veggies such as raddish, & spring onion

Back to today's Stuffed Vine Leaves with Ground Meat and Rice. The way of rolling the vine leaves with the filling is exactly the same as discussed in yesterday's post Stuffed Vine Leaves with Ricotta, Rice and Herb Filling. And it is actually, the same method used to make any kind of rolls, either with fresh cabbage or sauerkraut. Form meat into long cigar shape then roll the grape leave starting at the stem all the way to the top. Add the stock, tomatoes, purée and rice.

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