Easiest Way to Make Tasty Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice

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Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice. To fill and roll the leaves, gently separate one leaf and place it shiny-side down on a work surface. Place a pinch (up to a teaspoon) of the filling on the leaf at the point where the stem joins the leaf. Then pour on your pre arranged stuffed grape leaves. (If rice need more water you can add more).

This is actually a dish of many names and variations.

This version features a savory meat and rice filling!

Top it with a creamy yogurt and garlic sauce, and you'll surely fall in love with these wrapped morsels.

You can cook Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice using 35 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice

You need of meat.
It’s 1 2/3 lb of ground meat.
You need 1 lb of pan sausage I used Odoms Tennessee Pride mild.
You need 1 stick of butter.
It’s 1 large of onion chopped.
Prepare of rice.
Prepare 1 2/3 cup of long grain rice.
Prepare 5 cup of water.
You need of grape leaves.
It’s 32 oz of wet one pound dry grape leaves.
You need 4 quart of water.
You need 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar.
It’s 1/2 cup of distilled white vinegar.
Prepare 1 tbsp of salt.
Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
It’s 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
You need of spices.
You need 2 of bay leaf.
You need 1 tsp of thyme.
Prepare 1 tbsp of rosemary oil.
You need 1 tsp of saffron threads.
It’s 1 1/2 tsp of marjoram.
It’s 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1 tsp of dillweed.
Prepare 1 tbsp of Hungarian paprika.
Prepare of sauce.
You need 29 oz of tomato sauce.
You need 29 oz of tomato puree.
Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
It’s 1 tsp of sweet basil.
Prepare 1 tsp of whole leaf oregano.
It’s 1 tsp of salt.
You need 2 tsp of granulated garlic powder.
You need of garnish optional.
You need of crushed red pepper flakes.

Simply filled with rice, ground beef and layered with fresh lemon.

I grew up eating stuffed grape leaves.

They are an acquired taste being that the grape leaves sit in brine and stuffed in jars.

The brine soaks into the leaves and at the first turn of the jar you can smell the aroma of…brine.

Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice step by step

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..
Cook your sausage add chopped onion ground meat and butter stir well.
After the meat is browned add spices crush the bay leaves up before adding.
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.
Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit.
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..
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.
When all are rolled and on pan add sauce on top bake in oven 20-25 minutes.
Garnish if you like.

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.

Line a large pot with celery ribs and loose cabbage leaves.

Remove the hard stems from grape leaves and place on a plate.

Oh well, because of these delicious Meat & Rice Stuffed Grape Leaves!