BEST Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves!
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These Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves (Warak Enab) are made with a spiced ground beef and rice mixture – a delicious Mediterranean dish commonly served …
This is my favorite
The secret is to make sure you use short grain rice – like Egyptian rice; the effect will not be the same with regular long-grain or medium-grain rice. Also, before layering the stuffed grape leaves, put a layer of chicken thighs below. In preparing the liquid it is to cook in, add a little bouillon cube (broken up) and a little butter ghee. Do not add lemon until the very end of cooking, if you want this flavor. If you want to stuff it with ground lamb instead of ground beef, exclude the butter ghee as the lamb mixture will be naturally oily. The spices my Auntie taught me to use in the raw meat mixture (never pre-cooked) was pepper, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and ground cloves. She just called them “hawajay,” which means “spices” in Arabic. It takes about 45 minutes to prepare a full jar = five minutes for everyone to devour at the dinner table (lol).
How have I not discovered your channel before the other day (Lebanese rice with ground beef recipe)?!? You have such a lovely demeanour and I love how you provide such simple yet thorough recipes. We’re Italian but growing up I had a Lebanese friend whose family never hesitated to have me eat with them (and vice versa of course! Hey Italians, Lebanese we’re the same in that respect 😊) so I grew up loving Middle Eastern food and now my children enjoy other ethnicities’ foods too. If I were to cook these in an Instant Pot, would I need to layer the potatoes and for how long would they need to pressure cook for? My house heats up way too much, especially in the summer, if I were to cook anything for that long on the stovetop (or oven) so I would prefer pressure cooker recipes. Can you provide Instant Pot alternatives for your recipes? 🙏
how to hell do u get the leafs out of the f'ing jar!!????!?!?!?! ToT
Congratulations 🎉 very good recipe! 👏 will try to make it 😋😋😋
I had a Greek salad for dinner yesterday that came with Dolmas rolls. My family loves cooking and after I enjoyed the rolls, I shared this recipe with them. My Grandmother is (98) and is excited watching this video👵🏾
I miss this food. 🥰 They call it Mashi (Don't know if that spells correctly)in UAE. All time favourite esp.on weekends and family gatherings 😋😋😋
Thanks for sharing your version of this. 🥰😘
Yummy
Saw folks who placed a teapot over the grape leaves in the pot to cook. I thought that was strange. Good to see you simply used a plate
Wow!!….I just tried the recipe today…and wow!….they turned out delicious!!!!!!…thank you for sharing this with us….I also subscribed to your channel👍☺️❤️
Here in the eastern of KSA, we cook it differently. We don't use meat and we use a lot of spices and lemon.Also, the Hashwa includes rice, parsley, tomatoes, and chipped onion. when we roll the grape leaves, we cover it with a sauce made of 6 cups of water, 3-4 cups of lemon, 1-2 cups of olive oil, 5 spoons pomgrana hone, 1table spoon of salt, 2ts pepper, 2 table spoons of the 7 spices. Then, we cook it about 2-3 hours. all the process to make grape leaves takes the whole day😂 but it worth all that effort actually.👌🏻👌🏻
Can we use lime juice? I love these
I like it
First video of this recipe that has the cooking on the stove top. Love it. I’d go with more than a teaspoon filling.
I really hate them .. well hate is too strong word 🙂 im not a big fan actually i am not a fan at all 😀 but i love to make the stuffed grape leaves because it's my husband's (syrian) favourite food!
we both have so much fun while rolling them up, I love how cooking brings people together 🙂
I want to use 7spice so do I replace this with all spice 2tablespoon listed in the ingredients
What’s the texture difference cooking in an instant pot v stove top in a pan?
Aye dumpling
Anyone call it yalanji?
Excited to try it today. Thank you!! 😄
I need to get a jar of leaves and some veggies.
Do you wash the rice? And when u put it with the groundbeef was it raw or cooked
Huge Success! Turned out perfect! Thank you!
Hi how would you do if you make it in a pressure cooker??
Don't worry if they don't come out pretty. They mostly hold together even if some unravel or break. And they'll all taste the same! I can't wait to try this with the cinnamon. I may try mint and dill as well.
Great video, thanks! Also, one tip would be to have the veiny rough side facing up when rolling and filling the leaves.
Will it come out the same if you cook the beef and rice before hand and stuff the leaves with that?
This was a hit!! I can’t stop making it. So simple and delicious. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you 😊 🙏
This is the most delicious thing everrrrrrrrr
We call them sarmale in Moldova and România. In addition to rice and ground meat, we add chopped tomatoes, onion, shredded carrots and parsley. We serve them with sour cream. Another version is to wrap the filling in cabbage blanched leaves. Delicious!!
Grape leaves is turk food because This meal is usually eaten in places where the Ottoman state ruled.
🇬🇷Greece,🇸🇦 Arabia,🇪🇬 egpth, 🇦🇿azerbaijan, 🇮🇶 ıraq or 🇱🇧🇮🇷🇧🇬🇸🇾.
And grape leaves is Ottoman Turks food
Sarmale in Romania
I’ve made these many time, a wonder lady Hifa Karmeed taught me how. Almost exactly as you do except she taught me to cook the rice first, it cuts the cooking time and keeps a bit of a bite to the leaves
Thank u very much for the recipe and the tips..
Nice thank you!
we never cook the meet before stuffing..