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Home » Winter is coming » Preserving Grape Leaves

Published: Nov 12, 2012 · Modified: Jan 29, 2021 by Yusuf

Preserving Grape Leaves

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Wouldn’t it be great to have grape leaves in your pantry in winter too? You wouldn’t have to search for it at markets then! It might not be possible to find it every time or the leaves might not be to your taste. They sometimes use leaves that are too tough, which is not something you would want.

As I mentioned before, we, as Turkish people are like ants, who always save food for coming winter. We love to prepare food in summer when they are fresh, we want to carry this freshness to colder days too when foods are more limited.

Mom either brings us fresh grape leaves and we cure them here together or she makes it for us and brings the jar. If you love stuffed grape leaves as much as we do, if you are crazy about home made foods as much as we are, you should learn how to preserve grape leaves!

How To Cure Grape Leaves | giverecipe.com

Grape leaves for winter

Ideal leaves to be cured must be fresh and young and they shouldn’t have fuzz on them. Otherwise, they will not be as tasty as you desire. I will not give any measurement here, it depends on the amount of leaves you cure. However, you can measure water and salt with the egg method I use to brine olives.

How To Cure Grape Leaves | giverecipe.com
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Preserving Grape Leaves

How To Cure Grape Leaves | giverecipe.com

Fresh grape leaves are preserved in brine.

  • Author: Yusuf
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 1 1x
  • Category: Preserving
  • Method: Pickling
  • Cuisine: Turkish

Ingredients

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  • 2lb grape leaves
  • 1lt water
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt or sea salt

Instructions

  1. Pile up leaves in groups of 20 or 25. Make sure their stems overlap.
  2. Put these in a large tray in groups.
  3. Boil water, 1 or 2 liters depending on the amount of leaves.
  4. Pour it on leaves when it is hot, it should cover leaves.
  5. Cover the tray.
  6. Let it cool.
  7. Do not waste this water.
  8. When it is cool enough, sprinkle a little kosher salt on the side of their stems and roll them as groups.
  9. Place the groups of leaves in a jar until it is filled up.
  10. Add salt into that boiled and cooled water using the egg method.
  11. Pour it into the jar until it reaches the top of leaves.
  12. Place a piece of cheesecloth on leaves, it functions as a weight to prevent leaves from floating.
  13. Wait it in a dry place away from sunlight.
  14. It gets ready after a week. You can easily get grape leaves from the jar in winter and stuff them!

Notes

  1. It is possible to keep these for more than a year.
  2. If the weather is very hot in your place, it might overflow, so it’s better to place a tray or a towel under the jar. If it overflows and the water inside reduces, you can prepare a little brine again with egg method and add it into the jar.
  3. Wash them with warm water before using so that you remove the excessive salt on them.

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  1. Marsha L Knueven says

    July 07, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    I want to know what the egg method is also!

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    • Yusuf says

      July 09, 2020 at 4:46 am

      You can read about the egg method in our How To Brine Olives post, under the sub heading 'Prepare The Brine'.

      Reply
  2. Mary Seabolt says

    August 28, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    Great recipe, but what is the EGG METHOD for salt and water mixture

    Reply

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