Even though I lost the first place to stuffed leaves with olive oil, stuffed leaves with meat is the second in my heart. Its splendor on the table is indisputable, and it is insatiable to eat it with yoghurt.
But my advice to you is that when you choose brine or fresh leaves to make the stuffing, you should be careful that the leaves and their veins are not too thick.
Have you ever rolled a leaf before? No problem :) When you enter the recipe, you can find photos of all stages of how to wrap a leaf.
I sometimes use tomato and sometimes tomato paste for the stuffing. You can choose what you want.
Also, if you have fresh vine leaves on hand You can also try this recipe.
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Ingredients for Meat Stuffed Leaf Recipe
- 350 g pickled vine leaves
- 2 medium onion
- 300 gr ground beef
- 1 cups of rice
- Quarter bunch of parsley
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste (tomato & pepper, if available)
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste (for internal mortar)
- Salt
- black pepper
- 3 cups of boiling water
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste + 4 tablespoons olive oil (in the pot)
How to Make Meat Stuffed Leaf Recipe?
- About 10 minutes for the brine leaves to remove the salt. boil, drain the boiling leaves through a strainer and run through cold water.
- Chop the onion and parsley finely, wash the rice in warm water and drain it.
- Take rice, minced meat, tomato paste, spices and all other ingredients in a wide and deep bowl as you can see in the photo and knead.
- Take the vine leaf on a flat surface (the matte and veined part should face towards you), put a teaspoon of minced meat in it and wrap it in accordance with the steps in Photo 1-2-3-4-5.
- Place the stuffed stuffed you wrapped in the pot, without leaving any spaces, as in photo 6. Cover a porcelain plate by turning it upside down so that the leaves do not open during cooking.
- Fry 4 tablespoons of oil and tomato paste. Add the water to the tomato paste you have fried and put it in the pot from the gap on the side of the plate (Keep some hot water on the side so that if the water runs out, you can add it to the stuffed stuffed with the same method).
- Cook the stuffing on medium heat until the leaves are soft. Serve hot with yogurt.