Dolmades

Time

2 Hours

Serves

8

Serving Size

3

Complexity

Intermediate

Calories

140

Carbs

10

INGREDIENTS

 

  • 2 cups chicken broth (up to 32 ounces prepared)
  • 2 lemons (8 tablespoons prepared lemon juice)
  • 1 lbs ground beef (raw)
  • 1 cup uncooked rice
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup chopped yellow onion
  • 1/4 cup parsley
  • 1 tbl dried dill weed
  • 1/2 tsb all-spice
  • 1-16 oz jar grape leaves
  • salt pepper to taste

 

DIRECTIONS

 

  1. Unfold all leaves, rinse, pat dry each leaf.
  2. Place a few loose leaves on the bottom of a medium size pot to cover bottom of pot.
  3. Remove large center veins with a knife on larger leaves.
  4. Combine raw rice, raw beef, 1/4 C olive oil, and herbs with your hands.
  5. Place 1 small kitchen spoonful of the mixture on each grape leaf in the center at the base of the leave (shiny side down or vein side up).
  6. Roll grape leaf loosely. Flip in sides in first then bottom of the leave, then toward the top of the leaf.
  7. Coat pot 1/4 C olive Oil
  8. Place each rolled dolmade in the pot. Repeat until almost all the grape leaves are used.
  9. Mix chicken broth & lemon juice, and pour over dolmades. Add extra chicken broth as needed covering the dolmades. Then top with extra leaves to cover the top.
  10. Put plate inside pot on top of dolmades to seal. Put on pot lid
  11. Bring to boil and simmer for 1 hour.