Recipe of Perfect Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat
by Alta Hines
Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, stuffed vine leaves with rice and minced meat. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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:
Take grape leaves _ pickles _
Get short \ round grain rice (washed & drained)
Make ready minced meat
Take onion finely chopped
Make ready garlic minced
Take dry mint
Prepare lemon juice
Make ready vegetable oil
Take salt
Take 7 spices
Instructions to make Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:
Soak grape leaves in water, then wash very well for several times, keep in a strainer to drain, trim extra stems
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
Place one grape leave on a flat surface,(tray, plate or granite / marble surface)
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 shape
Repeat the previous step untill you finish all the grape leaves
For cooking the grape leaves ;
2 kg of lamb / beef meat with bones, 1 cups lemon juice (less or more as desired), salt (to taste), 1 tbsp olive oil
Apply a pinch of salt, cinnamon, and 7 spices on meat from all sides to taste
In a wide deep pot, layer the grape leaves over the meat layer in a presentable way
Add salt, 7 spices & olive oil and cover with water, add heavy weight over them, and cover the pot
Put on medium fire and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to the minimum, and let simmer slowly, untill well cooked
When reaching the desired doneness, take off the weight, add lemon juice, leave for about 5 to 10 minutes, then take off the fire.
This cooking process takes about 3 hours
In a soup bowl, pure the sauce, and then pure the grape leaves In serving dish
It is served hot, with some veggies such as raddish, & spring onion
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