Zucchini vine leaves and Lamb chops
A rich Lebanese dish very appetizing 😋🥩
Ingredients:
🍳 2,5 cups short rice
🍳 500 g minced beef meat
🍳 70 pcs vine leaves (fresh)
🍳 1 kg lamb chops
🍳 2 kg zucchini
🍳 Olive oil and butter
🍳 10 pcs garlic cloves
🍳 coffee cup lemon juice
🍳 salt and pepper to taste
Method of Preparation:
1. First of all, soak the rice in water for about 10 mn, pan-fry the meat until done then add it to the rice. Stuff the zucchini with meat and rice until a third of each squash then keep aside.
2. Soak the vine leaves in hot water and a little salt to keep them green for 2 min then insert 1 to a half coffee spoon of rice and meat mixture into the vine leaf and roll as per the video.
3. Pan-fry the lamb chops after seasoning them then add the stuffed vine leaves then the stuffed zucchini, insert between each layer some garlic cloves and some warm water, then add the rest of water until covered cook for 1 h to 1h 30 min on small heat.
Preparation: 3 hours
Cooking: 1 h 30 mn