Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed vine leaves with rice and minced meat using 10 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:

1. Make ready grape leaves _ pickles _
2. Make ready short \ round grain rice (washed & drained)
3. Prepare minced meat
4. Take onion finely chopped
5. Prepare garlic minced
6. Take dry mint
7. Take lemon juice
8. Get vegetable oil
9. Make ready salt
10. Get 7 spices

Instructions to make Stuffed Vine leaves with rice and minced meat:

1. Soak grape leaves in water, then wash very well for several times, keep in a strainer to drain, trim extra stems
2. Filling preparation : - in a deep bowl ; add, rice, meat, vegetable oil, dry mint, onion, garlic, 7 spices, salt and lemon juice, mix well untill well combined
3. Place one grape leave on a flat surface,(tray, plate or granite / marble surface)
4. Place suitable amount of filling (must be at the center), fold the bottom of the leave on the mixture, then fold the sides over so as they are closed, then roll it to gain a finger shape
6. Repeat the previous step untill you finish all the grape leaves
7. For cooking the grape leaves ;
8. 2 kg of lamb / beef meat with bones, 1 cups lemon juice (less or more as desired), salt (to taste), 1 tbsp olive oil
9. Apply a pinch of salt, cinnamon, and 7 spices on meat from all sides to taste
10. In a wide deep pot, layer the grape leaves over the meat layer in a presentable way
11. Add salt, 7 spices & olive oil and cover with water, add heavy weight over them, and cover the pot
12. Put on medium fire and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to the minimum, and let simmer slowly, untill well cooked
13. When reaching the desired doneness, take off the weight, add lemon juice, leave for about 5 to 10 minutes, then take off the fire.
14. This cooking process takes about 3 hours
15. In a soup bowl, pure the sauce, and then pure the grape leaves In serving dish
16. It is served hot, with some veggies such as raddish, & spring onion

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