Desserts
Savory Grape Leaf Cake
A cake of another kind! Grape leaf cake is a savory cake that changes the traditional grape leaves-wrapped recipe and presents it as a wonderful cake.
Ingredients
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- 1 onion
- 1 tomato
- 1 cup rinsed rice
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- Black pepper
- Salt
- Pinch of hot pepper
- 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Pinch of dried mint
- 1 cup chopped parsley
- For meat-filled grape leaves, here is a link: Grape Leaves with Lamb Meat
Method
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- In a pot over the heat, sauté the finely chopped onion for several minutes, then add the finely chopped tomato, 1 cup of washed rice, and various spices: black pepper, a pinch of salt, chicken stock, a pinch of hot pepper, and pomegranate molasses.
- Add dried mint, sauté for about 10 minutes, then add 1 cup chopped parsley and leave the mixture for another 5 minutes before turning off the heat.Timers: 10 min, 5 min
- Prepare a round baking pan, add a little oil with slices of potato and carrot, and begin arranging the grape leaves in the pan and along the edges.
- Then add the filling and start rolling the edges of the grape leaves over the filling, using more than one leaf if needed to fully cover the filling.
- Pour a sauce made of hot water, olive oil, pomegranate molasses, a chicken stock cube, and lemon juice. Pour the sauce over the grape leaves in the pan.
- Cover the pan with foil and bake for about one hour; then invert the pan onto a serving plate and garnish as desired.
- To make stuffed grape leaves with meat, here is this link: Stuffed grape leaves with lamb ribs
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Grape Leaves with Lamb Meat
