🇱🇧 Lebanon
Warak Enab bi Zeit
The Lebanese oil-based version: lemony vegetarian rolls served at room temperature.
🔪 Prep: 60 min🔥 Cook: 60 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Vegetarian, bright with lemon and olive oil, stuffed with rice, tomato, parsley, and mint.
Ingredients
- 300 ggrape leaves
- 250 gshort-grain rice
- 4 tomatoes, finely diced
- 1 bunchparsley
- ½ bunchmint
- 1 onion, minced
- 4 lemons, juiced
- 150 mlolive oil
Method
- 1
Blanch the grape leaves briefly and trim the stems.
- 2
Mix rice with tomatoes, herbs, onion, half the lemon and oil, salt, and pepper.
- 3
Place a thin line of filling on each leaf and roll tight as a pencil.
- 4
Layer in a pot over sliced potatoes, weigh down with a plate, and cover with water, remaining lemon, and oil.
- 5
Simmer gently for an hour; cool before unmolding.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6