We have grape vines growing in the garden so we thought we would try to blanch some of the leaves and make
dolmas. I usually buy a jar of grape leaves but why buy them when we have them. They were a bright green when we picked them but two minutes in the boiling water turned them this rather drab color. But that's what they look like in the store bought jar.
Ron drained the leaves and patted them dry. I made the filling with brown rice, onions, parsley, walnuts and lemon juice and let it cool. We put a spoon full of the filling on each leaf.
We folded the top down, the sides in and rolled them up tightly and placed them in a dish.
When we had rolled them all, I steamed them for about 30 minutes until they were nice and tender. I dressed them with olive oil and lemon juice. They were good, really good. Will we always make our own leaves, probably not but it was fun and easy.
We have grape vines growing in the garden so we thought we would try to blanch some of the leaves and make dolmas. I usually buy a jar of grape leaves but why buy them when we have them. They were a bright green when we picked them but two minutes in the boiling water turned them this rather drab color. But that's what they look like in the store bought jar.
Ron drained the leaves and patted them dry. I made the filling with brown rice, onions, parsley, walnuts and lemon juice and let it cool. We put a spoon full of the filling on each leaf.
We folded the top down, the sides in and rolled them up tightly and placed them in a dish. 
When we had rolled them all, I steamed them for about 30 minutes until they were nice and tender. I dressed them with olive oil and lemon juice. They were good, really good. Will we always make our own leaves, probably not but it was fun and easy.
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