Stuffed vine leaves - Etli Yaprak Dolma

 

I don't know any body doesnt like to eat this food, even you are Turkish or not. This is one of the best food in Turkish cuisine.

It is not so easy to make, it takes time but once you do, you will always wanna eat.

Ingredients:

• 300-400 gr vine leaves
• 2 middle size onions - chopped
• 300-350 gr beef mince
• 1 cup rice
• 3 tbsp vegetable or canola oil
• 2-3 tomato sauce(it depends how much you like)
• 2-3 tsp salt
• 2-3 tsp pepper
• 3 cups of hot water
• yoğurt

Preparation:

• Firstly boil vine leaves 10 minutes as they can be really salty and then put them in a colander and let them cool
• wash the rice
• take a large pot and mix chopped onions,tomato sauce, oil, salt and pepper
• add the mince to the mixture and mix all the ingredients well
• put one vine leave in a flat surface, put some ingredients and roll the leaves. dont let the ingredient flow from the leaves
• align the stuffed leaves into pot without leaving any gaps
• put 1 tbsp of olive oil at the top and put the hot water
• put a small cover and then put the pots cover
• let it cook 45 minutes in a low heat
• check your meal time time when you see the water is not enough and your meal hasnt cooked yet add some more

when the meal is ready, put some yougurt and if you want more tomato sauce when you are serving...

Mung Bean Salad

I love eating healthy food and this is one of my favorites... 

You can add whatever you want but if you are sometimes counting calories, pls dont start with carbs.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup washed mung beans

• 1 cup peeled and chopped red beat

• 1 cup pickles

• 1/4 cup chopped dill

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 1 tbsp vinegar

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

• 2 cloves of garlic 

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp pepper

Preparation:

• boil mung beans and read beat in two seperate pots 

• when they are boiled enough filter them and mix them together in a bowl

• let them cool 

• mash garlics and chop them

• in a small pot get salt, pepper, vinegar, olive oil and garlic

• put all the ingredients together and finallly add the dills 

İf you havent try to eat mung beans yet, try this recipe, you wont regret... 

Borlotti Beans

In all houses of every dinner tables we make one soup one main dish, one olive oil dish or meze and a rice or spagetti...

 

 

one of my best meal cooked with olive oil is 'Barbunya'. Really simple to cook very delicious to eat.

Hope you will enjoy...

Ingredients:

• 500 gr Borlotti Beans
• 1 middle size onion
• 1/2 tomato sauce or mashed tomatoes
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 3 tbsp olive oil and 1 more at the end
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Parsley

Preparation:

• one night before cooking take a cup double size of the beans and fill it with water
• add the beans and let them get wet till the next day
• chop the onions
• get a mideum size pot and add the olive oil and heat it
• add the chopped onions and make them Brown
• mash the garlics and add them
• add the tomato sauce and make it boil
• after the tomatoes boiled add the beans and stir them
• now it is time to add hot water just at the top of the beans and add salt and pepper
• make it boil in high heat and just after its boiled, turn the heat on low and cook untill it is done
• after it is ok, take the meal to another service pot and decorate with parsley...

P.S: If you wanna cook something in Turkish cuisine pls let me know, I will cook and share the recipe for you...