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

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, yaprak sarma (stuffed grape leaves). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

The term sarma derives from Turkish verb "sarmak," which means to wrap or to roll. It can be prepared with rice and spices (vegetarian) or with rice and ground meat. To find a recipe with ground meat check out this one.

Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Yaprak Sarma (stuffed grape leaves) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

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

It will take time to prepare this recipe. A Very traditional healthy and well known recipe - "Dolma", all around in the Middle East. I cooked with ground beef, , there is also. While cooking the stuffed grape leaves, prepare your sauce.

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

This is traditional Turkish dish called yaprak sarmasi, or just sarma, like most people in Turkey call it. They are the ultimate finger food and are often served as a side dish with a dot of yogurt. As you may remember I shared stuffed grape leaves (hot meal) recipe before and I told you there is also a cold version of this meal. Today is the day to share cold stuffed grape leaves. The best grape leaves come from the Turkish city called Tokat.

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