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- From: Amy Cohen <arcohen@leland.Stanford.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Greek Food With Grape Leaves
- Message-ID: <br{-8tbid@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 04:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <2rf0av$dfc@s.ms.uky.edu>
- Summary: Yaprakis con Avas/Dolmades
- Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- In Greek, stuffed grape leaves are _dolmades_ (singular: dolmas). This
- recipe is from my grandfather Nace Cohen, who was from a Sephardic Jewish
- family from the island of Rhodes. Which is why the title of the dish,
- "Yaprakis con Avas" is a combination of Turkish and Spanish.
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- YAPRAKIS CON AVAS (DOLMADES)
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- 1 lb. lean ground meat
- 1/4 cup washed, uncooked rice
- 1 ts. salt
- 2 TB. oil
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- grape leaves
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- 1 lb. great northern beans, cleaned and soaked overnight in cold water
- [reserve the water]
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- 1 8oz. can tomato sauce
- 1 ts. salt
- 1/4 cup oil
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- juice of 1 lemon
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- Mix first four ingredients. Mold into tiny cigar shapes. Roll each securely
- in a grape leaf. [Roll up once or twice from the bottom of the leaf, fold in
- the sides, and then roll the rest of the way. Don't roll too tight: the rice
- will expand some.] Place half of the beans in pressure cooker or large
- heavy pot with cover. Lay yaprakis on top in one closely-packed layer.
- Place rest of beans on top. Into water from beans put tomato sauce, salt, oil.
- Pour carefully into pot. Water should be 1"-1 1/2" higher than beans.
- Invert a china plate on top. Cover. In pressure cooker, cook 1 hour.
- In pot, cook 3 1/2 hours. When beans are tender as butter, squeeze juice of
- one lemon over all. Serve with rice.
-
- [The pressure cooker version comes out with slightly tougher grape leaves.]
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