Grape Leaves
photo by mhaddad88
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 1419.54 ml calrose rice
- 5 roma tomatoes
- 2 (907.18 g) jar grape leaves
- 2 large onions
- 1 bunch dill leaves
- 680.38 g ground beef
- 3 green bell peppers
- 3 bulbs of garlic
- 3 chicken breasts
- 3 lemons
- 34.50 ml salt
- 9.85 ml pepper
- 425.24 g tomato sauce
- extra virgin olive oil
directions
-
Grape leaves:
- wash and de-stem grape leaves.
- add filling to dull side.
- roll.
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Filling:
- wash rice.
- remove seeds of tomatoes, dice them, and add to rice.
- add one and a half of the onions, diced.
- slice half an onion into rings for later.
- add dill.
- add ground beef.
- add salt and pepper.
- add lemon juice.
- add half of the tomato sauce.
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Cooking:
- drizzle some extra virgin olive oil into casserole.
- add a layer of onion rings.
- add a layer of sliced green bell pepper.
- add the three chicken breasts.
- drizzle some tomato sauce.
- add some garlic cloves with the skin still on.
- add a layer of rolled grape leaves.
- drizzle more tomato sauce.
- add a layer of sliced green bell pepper.
- add more garlic.
- add salt and lemon.
- repeat layers.
- put a dinner plate upside down on the top of the pot.
- cover with lid and cook on high until boiling.
- reduce heat to medium and cook for at least an hour until rice is cooked.
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