Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat. 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. Turkish sarma or stuffed vine leaves with ground meat and rice served in sauce, a popular dish in many parts of the world.
It can also mean pieces of meat.
Tips Individual servings of dolmathakia are four to five pieces on small plates as an appetizer; however, they can also be eaten as a side or main dish (especially when larger leaves are used).
Greek Stuffed Vine Leaves is one of the highlights of Greek cuisine.
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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. Turkish sarma or stuffed vine leaves with ground meat and rice served in sauce, a popular dish in many parts of the world.
To begin with this recipe, we must first 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.
Ingredients Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:
- You need 1000 g grape leaves _ pickles _.
- Give 3 cups of short \ round grain rice (washed & drained).
- Provide 500 g for minced meat.
- You need 1 - onion finely chopped.
- Need 2 cloves for garlic minced.
- Provide 1/2 tsp dry mint.
- You need 1 tsp of lemon juice.
- Need 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
- Require 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Require 1/3 tsp of 7 spices.
A unique dish, with a very distinctive flavor. Vine leaves (grape leaves) are stuffed with a rice, fresh herb and pine nut filling, and are served with a thick lemon sauce. Sometimes vine leaves are stuffed with ground meat also like lamb or beef. Dolmades ( Dolmathes ) refers to Greek dishes made with either cabbage or vine/ grape leaves, stuffed with a delicious herb-y rice mix, shaped into little rolls and boiled until wonderfully tender.
Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat process:
- 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.
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- 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.
Some dolmades recipe variations besides rice, herbs and seasonings also include minced meat (beef and/or pork). Put the oil in a medium, non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Add the stock, tomatoes, purée and rice. Form meat into long cigar shape then roll the grape leave starting at the stem all the way to the top. Remove stems from remaining leaves, and place vein side up on your work surface.
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