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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Remove grape leaves from jar carefully. | 2. Rinse the leaves under cold water trying to preserve each leaf. | 3. Open leaves and place in colander let leaves drain but do not let dry out. | 4. Par-Cook rice in water for about 1/2 the normal cook time and rice is still firm. | 5. In pan cook meat, onions with 1Tbsp pure olive oil until completely cooked. | 6. Discard any juice or extra oil from cooked meat. | 7. In bowl mix cooked rice, meat onions and scallions. | 8. Mix in juice of one lemon. | 9. Salt and pepper mixture to taste. | 10. Assembly - one leaf at a time. | 11. Lay a leaf with shiny side down on to work surface. | 12. Scoop a rounded and packed tsp of the mixture and place it on the leaf where the veins join to become a stem. | 13. If there is a stem just pinch it off and discard it. | 14. Fold the sides of the leaf in towards the middle. | 15. Roll the leaf up towards its point and keep tucking in the sides as you roll. | 16. You want a firm package. | 17. Use olive oil to grease the bottom and sides of a large sauce pan. | 18. Place the stuffed and folded leaves carefully on the bottom of the pan with seams facing downwards,. | 19. Once the bottom of the pan is covered proceed to fill the next layer with more stuffed leaves until you run out of leaves. | 20. Pour juice from one large lemon over layered stuffed leaves | 21. Boil 5 cups of water | 22. Pour water over layered stuffed leaves in sauce pan. | 23. Place a heavy dish on top of the stacks of layered leaves, so that they are being pressed down. | 24. Bring to boil. | 25. Lower flame and simmer, covered with heavy dish pressing down on layers for 45 minutes. | 26. Remove from heat and let cool for 1 hour. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
grape leaf	16	ounces		421.8404	78.5168	25.4011	9.6161
onion	4	cups	chopped	256.0	59.776	7.04	0.64
scallion	2	cups	chopped	64.0	14.68	3.66	0.38
lemon	2			-	-	-	-
parsley	1	cup	chopped	21.6	3.798	1.7819999999999998	0.474
salt	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1	teaspoon		5.773	1.4708	0.239	0.075
rice	2	cups	uncooked	1404.0	309.426	25.779	2.262
extra virgin olive oil	1	cup		-	-	-	-
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
hamburger	1		chopped	585.1349	156.3988	2.8576	2.4494
water	5	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.