Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuff grape leaves with meat and rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have stuff grape leaves with meat and rice using 35 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:

1. Make ready meat
2. Get 1 2/3 lb ground meat
3. Get 1 lb pan sausage I used Odoms Tennessee Pride mild
4. Get 1 stick butter
5. Prepare 1 large onion chopped
6. Take rice
7. Prepare 1 2/3 cup long grain rice
8. Take 5 cup water
9. Prepare grape leaves
10. Make ready 32 oz wet one pound dry grape leaves
11. Prepare 4 quart water
12. Prepare 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
13. Prepare 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
14. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
15. Take 1/2 cup sugar
16. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
17. Make ready spices
18. Take 2 bay leaf
19. Get 1 tsp thyme
20. Make ready 1 tbsp rosemary oil
21. Prepare 1 tsp saffron threads
22. Get 1 1/2 tsp marjoram
23. Get 1 tsp salt
24. Make ready 1 tsp dillweed
25. Make ready 1 tbsp Hungarian paprika
26. Get sauce
27. Make ready 29 oz tomato sauce
28. Take 29 oz tomato puree
29. Get 1/2 cup sugar
30. Get 1 tsp sweet basil
31. Make ready 1 tsp whole leaf oregano
32. Get 1 tsp salt
33. Take 2 tsp granulated garlic powder
34. Take garnish optional
35. Take crushed red pepper flakes

Steps to make Stuff grape leaves with meat and rice:

1. Drain and rinse your grape leaves add to the pot of water with vinegar, sugar salt, boil 20 minutes then add baking soda it will bubble up stir well cover remove from heat.
2. Cook your sausage add chopped onion ground meat and butter stir well
3. After the meat is browned add spices crush the bay leaves up before adding
4. After spices are in and stirred in well add the rice and water stir in well cover let simmer till water craters form stir once cover amd let sit 20 minutes
5. Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit
6. While that is sitting make your sauce to a pot add sauce amd puree add salt, sugar, oregano, basil, and garlic. Stir bring up to simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally after 15 minutes cover remove from heat.
7. Take two leaves put 1 and a half tablespoons of meat rice filling in center fold sides over to middle then roll from bottom to top keeping sides in repeat 47 times
8. When all are rolled and on pan add sauce on top bake in oven 20-25 minutes
9. Garnish if you like

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