Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fylla (grape leaves). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Grape leaves are the leaves of grapevine plant which is used in various cuisines. It is picked fresh from vine and stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice and spices and then boiled or steamed. Stuffed grape leaves are served as a main dish or appetizer. Grape leaves are medium to large, cordate, heart shaped having multiple lobes.
Fylla (grape leaves) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Fylla (grape leaves) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fylla (grape leaves) using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fylla (grape leaves):
- Get grape leaves (as many as the mixture will require)
- Get 1 kg minced meat (1/2 beef & 1/2 pork)
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup rice (1 short grain white rice & 1/2 long grain)
- Get 2 large onions, grated
- Make ready 2 cans (1 kg) diced tomatoes
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 1/2 cup water
- Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
- Take salt, pepper, cumin
- Take water
- Take 1 tbsp vegetable shortening and 1/2 cup olive oil for cooking
In a large bowl, mix together the ground lamb, rice, allspice, salt and pepper until well blended. Fold the leaf over once, turn in the edges on each side, and then roll the leaf closed. 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 Fylla (grape leaves):
- Blanch the grape leaves.
- Strain them and lay them out on the brim of the pot that you are going to use or the strainer.
- Mix the mince thoroughly with the rice, onions, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, water, shortening, oil and spices.
- Cover the bottom of the pot with tomato slices.
- Stuff the grape leaves in the following way
- Arrange each grape leaf, shiny side down, place a spoonful of filling on it, turn inwards the sides of the leave (next to the stem) and roll all the way up (it takes some patience!). At the same time, stack them tightly one next to the other in a large pot.
- Cover them with a large plate (so they don't unravel while cooking) and add the spoonful of shortening, the oil and as much water as is needed to cover them.
- Boil over high heat for about half an hour.
- Serve with yogurt.
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. Drain then trim the stems and any hard veins from the leaves. To assemble the dolmades, lay a grape. Grape leaves are a staple in Greek cooking.
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