Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, stuff grape leaves with meat and rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuff grape leaves with meat and rice using 35 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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