Stuffed Wine Leaves
Recipe submitted by Alaa2
is a traditional eastern food from lebanon is a wine leaves stuffed with lamb mince meat and spices and rice served with grilled lamb chops and yogurt.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- wine leaves :20 leaves
- lamb mince meat:200g
- rice :100g
- gee or butter:1 table spoon
- onion;1 chopped
- garlic: 2 gloves
- fresh mint:2 table spoon
- cinnamon powder;punch
- black pepper ;punch
- saltpunch
- cumin powder;punch
- chicken stock
- lamb chops :400g
- potatoes;2 pieces
Method
- for filling: mixe mince meat with the spices and gee and onions .
- wine leaves washed and drain
- cut the potatoes sliced and put in the buttonof the pot to avoid the wine leaves from berninig and sticking.
- stuffed the wine leaves with the filling and roll them to form a cigar shapeand start put into the pot (layer)
- finally add stock and fresh mint chopped and leave to boil for 45 min (low heat)
- served with grilled lamb chops and little from the stock and yogurt.
Notes & Tips
choose baby wine leaves small and smooth is more soft and tender and will not take long time for cooking
