EPRAX (KURDISH STUFFED VEGETABLES AND LAMB)
This recipe for eprax, a multilayered casserole of Kurdish-style stuffed vegetables and lamb chops, comes from Parwin Tayyar in Nashville. To make the dish, sometimes called dolmas, Ms. Tayyar prepares a gently spiced lamb and rice filling, and uses it to stuff a mixture of vegetables, such as squash, tomatoes, potatoes and cabbage. Carefully layered in a pot with a little liquid, the vegetables simmer and steam together on the stove until they're tender. Then the whole dish is tipped out into a messy, delicious pile to be eaten with flatbread, pickles, hummus or a cucumber sauce. It may seem like a complex process, but once all the vegetables are prepped and the filling is ready, things go quickly. The dish is flexible, and what Ms. Tayyar provides is a blueprint: You can stuff any vegetables you have on hand, as long as you remember to stuff them loosely.
Provided by Tejal Rao
Categories dinner, project, main course
Time 3h
Yield 4 main course servings, up to 10 as part of a larger meal
Number Of Ingredients 27
Steps:
- Make the filling: Rinse rice in colander until water runs clear. Transfer to large bowl, add water to cover, and let soak for 30 minutes.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add ground meat, salt and pepper and sauté over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes, breaking up meat with a spoon. Stir in garlic and onions and sauté for 1 minute, stirring.
- Reduce heat to low and mix in tomato paste, celery, tomato, lemon juice, spices, oil and parsley. Remove from heat. Drain rice. Add meat mixture to rice, mix well to combine, cover, and set aside to cool.
- Prepare the vegetables: Fill a microwave-safe bowl with an inch of water. Using a knife, make a cut halfway from the side just into the center of the onion (so it is not fully cut in half). Place onion in bowl and microwave for 3 to 5 minutes, until onion has swelled and become soft, and layers are pliable. Remove from water, drain and let cool. Repeat with cabbage, making a cut into its core and placing in a bowl with water. Microwave for 5 to 10 minutes, until leaves become pliable, and can be easily separated from the head. (Remove outer layers as they soften while cooking.) Cut leaves into pieces about the size of your palm. (Alternatively, bring a pot of water to a boil and cook onion for 5 minutes, and cabbage for 10 minutes.)
- Soak grape leaves in cold water in a mixing bowl until ready to use. Cut any leaves bigger than the palm of your hand in half.
- Cut a 1/2-inch-thick lid off each bell pepper or tomato, or both, reserving lids. Core and seed each, so the center of each piece can be stuffed.
- Cut off stem end of eggplant, then cut in half so you have two short cylinders about the height of a bell pepper, and use a knife to cut out the middle of each piece of eggplant, leaving a roughly 1/2-inch wall, so there is a cavity you can stuff.
- Peel potato. Halve and carve out the center with a spoon so there is room to stuff each half.
- To assemble: Heat a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Season lamb chops with salt and pepper, then add to skillet. Sear 2 to 3 minutes per side, until evenly brown. Set aside.
- Lightly grease bottom of a large pot with a lid (10 to 12 quarts) with 1 teaspoon oil. Arrange squash pieces in a circle on the bottom of the pot. Place lamb chops on top.
- Fill about 20 grape leaves: Place a grape leaf (with the bumpier veined side of the leaf up) on a surface, with the stem closest to you. Place 1 scant tablespoon rice mixture near the stem. Roll up leaf to form a roughly 2-inch cigar shape, folding ends over halfway through rolling. Repeat with remaining leaves, and fit into pot between and over chops. Season with salt and pepper.
- Loosely stuff peppers or tomatoes or both, cover with their lids, and place in pot on their sides. Loosely stuff eggplant and potatoes, and place in pot on their sides.
- Separate cooled onion into its individual layers, so you have 6 to 8 individual curved pieces whose ends meet to form little tubes. (Don't use the smallest pieces.) Loosely fill onion layers, as if you were stuffing Italian-style pasta shells, and fit them in between the other vegetables to fill gaps. Season with salt and pepper.
- Use remaining rice mixture to stuff as many cabbage leaves as you can, then use stuffed leaves to create a top layer in the pot. (If you don't have enough stuffing to make a full layer of stuffed leaves, cover the stuffed vegetables by draping them with leftover cabbage leaves.) Season with salt and pepper, then drizzle lemon juice over top.
- Add water to pot until it comes about halfway up the sides of the vegetables (about 2 inches below the top layer). Cover pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook at a hard simmer for 10 minutes.
- Drizzle vegetables with 2 tablespoons oil, then cover pot again, lower heat to a simmer, and cook for 35 to 45 minutes more, or until rice is cooked and much of the liquid has been absorbed. To check for doneness, cut into one of the leaf bundles on top and check to see that the rice inside is fully cooked; to check the liquid, tilt the pot so you can get a sense of the water level. If there is more than 1/2 inch water, carefully drain off excess.
- Place a large circular platter or tray on top of pot and carefully invert the pot onto platter, tapping bottom of pot to loosen any remaining ingredients before removing it. (If you'd like, line tray with flatbread first before turning out dolmas, or serve flatbread on the side. The bread absorbs the excess water.) Pat any stray vegetables back into a big pile. Serve in the center of the table.
KURDISH STUFFED VEGETABLES
Mix all the ingredients or the filling and set aside. If you use vine leaves/grape leaves, the small jar is the right size for this amount of filling. If you
Provided by ChanieGeller
Categories Main, Dinner
Time 1h30m
Yield 6 Servings
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Mix all the ingredients or the filling and set aside. If you use vine leaves/grape leaves, the small jar is the right size for this amount of filling. If you use cabbage or onion you should cut an x at the top and stick them in a pot of boiling water just for a minute or two so they soften. Remove from water and separate them. you need to make a cut boil them andante so they soften and then separate them. Once you've separated the leaves you lay them on a board or in your palm place a tablespoon or two depending on the size of the leaf and you fold the pointy part up, the sides in and roll. Watch the video to see how the professionals do it below. Place each roll in the pot, one next to/touching the other leaving minimal space. Once the pot is full sprinkle a table spoon of sugar, some salt, juice of a half a lemon and some more olive oil (exact measurements are not important). Cover with water, if pot is not full to the top place a plate upside down over the rolls to keep them from floating, bring to a boil and then simmer for 1 hour until most water is absorbed. Some moisture is ok and even preferred. Let it sit for a half hour. Turn over onto platter or just scoop out gently. Enjoy Tip: I put all the veggies in the food processor start with garlic and celery so they are fine and then add the tomato and onion and pulse it.
Nutrition Facts :
KURDISH STUFFED TOMATOS
Make and share this Kurdish Stuffed Tomatos recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Stacia_
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 3h
Yield 10 , 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Soak the rice in hot water for at least an hour.
- Slice the top of the tomatoes and keep it aside for covering later.
- Using a carver or a tsp, empty the inside of the tomatoes and keep them for the soup.
- Fry the onion until golden and let it cool off
- Add all ingredients except the lemon juice and the tomato paste.
- Stuff the tomatoes with the mix and put the slice from earlier on top
- Poke diagonally 2 tooth peaks one on each side to attach the cover to the tomato wall
- In a large pot or a large and deep enough pan, lay the stuffed tomato at the bottom.
- Add the water, the tomatoes inside that you took out earlier, the lemon juice, the tomato paste, salt and pepper, bring to boil and cook for 5 minute, then lower heat and cook for an hour.
- You may use other vegetables to suff such as small eggplants, onions, zucchini etc.
- The best result achieved when stuffing several vegetables together while using the insides as a soup mix to get much richer soup.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 140.6, Fat 4.2, SaturatedFat 1.5, Cholesterol 15.4, Sodium 53.9, Carbohydrate 20, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 6, Protein 6.9
KURDISH LAMB & EGGPLANT STEW WITH SUMAC (MEFTUNA BACANAN)
I found this recipe online in *The Guardian* when I was looking for a recipe to try out the jar of sumac that I'd purchased on-line. Since I made it in a 5.5 quart cast-iron pot, I found it useful to cook the meat in two batches. It's a very interesting cooking technique and the results were super delicious!
Provided by lecole54
Categories Lamb/Sheep
Time 1h45m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Put the sumac in a pot and pour the boiling water over and set aside for at least 15-20 minutes, until the water turns to pink color.
- Season the lamb with 1.5 teaspoons of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper. In a heavy pan or a casserole dish, fry the butter and add the lamb cubes. On a high heat, brown them for about 10 minutes, stirring them around every now and then.
- Meanwhile part peel the eggplants in lines diagonally and de-seed the peppers. Cut the eggplants and peppers into big chunks and roughly chop the sun-dried tomatoes. Put all the vegetables together in a bowl, sprinkle over the remaining salt, ground black pepper and chili flakes and mix them all and set aside.
- Add the flour in to the pot with sumac juice in and whisk it well together, ensuring there are not any lumps.
- When the lamb is brown, add in the vegetables and press them down in the pan. Pour over the sumac water (which should just cover the vegetables, add more if needed). Scatter around the chilled butter cubes and put the lid on. On a very low heat (the smallest ring is the best) let it simmer for 1 hour. Try not to lift the lid at all until it is cooked.
- After an hour turn off the heat and let it rest for 15 minutes or so. Serve it with a quarter teaspoon of crushed garlic for each serve. The best is to stir the garlic in, which makes the eggplants melt in the dish!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 667.4, Fat 33.4, SaturatedFat 15.9, Cholesterol 125.6, Sodium 2758, Carbohydrate 64.7, Fiber 20.3, Sugar 37.5, Protein 38.6
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