How To Preserve Grape Leaves In Two Ways & Tips By Aysenur Altan

Grape leaves provide full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. It is one of the essential ingredients in Turkish cuisine. Grape leaves can be eaten alone or stuffed with ingredients (sarma) of your choice including rice, spices, and seasonings, with or without meat (olive oil version).
In this episode, I am going to show you how to preserve these tangy sour tastes to use year long in the kitchen.
Ingredients for preserving grape (Vine) leaves
2+1/2 kg grape leaves
For the salty pickling water: about 1-liter water + 1/3 cup pickling salt
about 1 cup or more pickling salt for sprinkling inside the grape leaves before rolling them in batches
I used 3, 1-liter glass jars and a 1+1/2 liter jar

Second option to preserve
After blanching in the water and cool it completely you can put them in freezer bags and freeze. But in the first option, it seems to preserve the leaves' flavor better.

Here is one recipe you can use to fill them, I will definitely share more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdydjPLcyyo&list=UUwVIj-OqEjXNqKpItChRrMQ

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