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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. | 2. Heat oil over medium heat. | 3. Add the rice and once it has absorbed the oil, add the chicken broth, soy sauce, and lemon juice. | 4. Bring rice to a boil, stir, then lower heat and simmer until liquid is absorbed. | 5. Remove rice from heat and keep covered. | 6. While the rice is cooking: | 7. Cook meat in a skillet with allspice, dill, cinnamon, mint, cloves, pine nuts, and currants. | 8. Slice lemons thinly. You will be placing the grape leaves between the lemon slices, so place a layer on the bottom of a 9x13 casserole dish and save the other 1/2 for the top. | 9. Rinse grape leaves and drain well. Cut the stems off. | 10. When rice is done cooking: | 11. Combine rice with meat mixture. | 12. Stuff grape leaves. | 13. To stuff, place the grape leaves vein side up. | 14. Put about 1 tbsp of filling at the stem end. | 15. Close the sides of the leaf in first and then roll the grape leaf to the tip. Place in the casserole dish and repeat until grape leaves or filling runs out. | 16. Put remaining lemon slices on top of the grape leaves. | 17. Pour beef broth and tomato juice over the grape leaves. | 18. Cover and bake at 350 for 1-1 1/4 hours. | 19. Serve warm. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	3	tablespoons		358.02	0.0	0.0	40.5
brown rice	1	cup	raw	678.95	141.0625	13.949000000000002	5.92
chicken broth	3	cups		234.36	5.67	33.4152	7.8624
soy sauce	1	tablespoon		8.48	0.7888	1.3024	0.0912
lemon juice	1	tablespoon		3.355	1.0523	0.0534	0.0366
beef	1/2		ground	449.05699999999996	0.0	44.0439	28.8712
allspice	1/4	teaspoon		1.2492	0.3426	0.0289	0.0413
dill	2	teaspoons	dried	0.1595	0.026000000000000002	0.0128	0.0042
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
mint	1	teaspoon	dried	-	-	-	-
clove	1	pinch		0.3596	0.086	0.0078	0.0171
pine nut	1/4	cup		227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
currant	1/4	cup		17.64	4.3064	0.392	0.1148
grape leaf		jar		-	-	-	-
lemon	3			3.8425	1.2349	0.1458	0.0397
beef broth	1 1/2	1/2		25.2	0.14400000000000002	4.104	0.792
tomato juice	1	cup		41.31	8.5779	2.0655	0.7047

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