Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves)
Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves)

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Yaprak sarma is a traditional dish in Turkey that is typically grape vine leaves rolled and filled with minced meat. This vegan version has a rice filling that Filling and rolling the vine leaves is a bit time-consuming, but you will end up with an enormous amount of yaprak sarma that you can eat from for. "Etli Yaprak Sarmasi" aka stuffed grape leaves is one of the most popular meals in Turkey. There is two kind of stuffed grape leaves.

Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves) using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
  1. Take 1 lb ground beef
  2. Make ready 1 dry onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 1/2 bunch parsley, chopped
  4. Get 1/3 cup rice-bulgur mix
  5. Take 1 tbs pepper paste
  6. Make ready 1 tbs tomato paste
  7. Prepare 1/4 cup hot water
  8. Get 1 Jar grape leaves ( we will use 2 rolls)
  9. Prepare 1/3 cup butter for sauce
  10. Make ready 2 tbs tomato paste for sauce

Sarmak is Turkish for to roll or to wrap, and yaprak means leaf. Sarma are sometimes also called dolma (from dolmak, to fill or to stuff), but strictly speaking that applies to stuffed vegetables. Sarma made with vine leaves are called yaprak sarması (lit. 'leaf sarma') or yaprak dolması (lit. 'leaf dolma') in Turkey, yarpaq dolması (lit. 'leaf A vine leaf roll is a dish consisting of cooked grape-vine leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings. Stuffed vine leaves without meat are sometimes called.

Steps to make Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves):
  1. Take 2 rolls of leaves from the jar, put into bowl filled with cold water.you will rinse the leaves getting rid of salt, keep the leaves in it, I usually start to prepare my stuffing mixture first. One dry onion, 1/3 cup of rice bulgur mix, 1/2 bunch parsley, 1 tablespoon pepper paste, 1 tbs tomato paste, and 1 lb of ground beef, salt pepper, put into a bowl. Add 1/4 cup of hot water and mix good. This is your stuffing.
  2. The Stems on the leaves will help you to pick them up easily, take 4-5 of leaves, snip of the stems and put them into your side of bowl, this will make them dry and ready to work.
  3. Place 4-5 whole grape leaves stem side is towards you, shiny part on the bottom, take some mixture and start rolling
  5. Close the sides
  6. Roll tightly, cigar shape
  7. Line the cooking pot with some ripped leaves, then place stuffed leaves, this will prevent leaves from sticking to the bottom of the pot, while cooking.
  8. Boil water, place an other small bowl over boiling water with 1 tbs tomato paste and 1/4 butter in it, butter will melt with the steam, then pour boiling water into paste and butter mixture, stir well, water must be enough to cover stuffed leaves.
  10. Pour sauce over the stuffed leaves
  11. Place a plate over leaves, to prevent them floating, or opening, cook low medium, about 35 mins
  12. Take the plate out, serve with thick "suzme" yogurt with garlic

Yaprak sarma is a traditional dish in Turkey that is typically grape vine leaves rolled and filled with minced meat. This vegan version has a rice filling. What we call stuffed vine leaves, dolma, in the UK are thought of as wrapped vine leaves, sarma, in Turkey. Dolma is only used as a term to describe things which are stuffed in Turkish-like hollowed out courgettes (zucchini) or tomatoes, or even stuffed squid. Stuffed Grape Leaves Good To eat Alone Or Over Salad.

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