Stuffed Grape Leaves

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Title: Stuffed Grape Leaves
Categories: Lamb
Yield: 24 servings

1/4 c Olive oil
1 lb Lamb
1 Onion
1/2 c Short grain rice
1 tb Dill weed
1/3 c Pine nuts
1 ds Tomato paste
3 c Rich chicken broth
Salt and pepper
1/4 c Water
3 tb Lemon juice
1 qt Jar Grape Leaves-rinsed well

Rinse grape leaves well. Saut'e the onion until translucent. Add
meat, stirring to break pieces. Add rice, dill, pine nuts, tomato
paste and water. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook over
medium heat for 10 minutes.

Cover the bottom of a dutch oven with grape leaves. Stuff the
remaining leaves by placing leaf side down, on the palm of the hand,
with base of leaf toward palm and tip toward middle finger, shiny
side down. Put a spoonful of meat in center and fold from botton,
tuck in edges snuggly. Arange tip side down in pan. Add chicken
broth to within 1 inch of top layer. Place a plate upside down on
top layer and press. Cover and cook oveer medium heat for 30 or until
rice is tender. Sprinkle with lemon juice and cook 5 minutes longer.
Walt

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