stuffed grape leaves
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- noun
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hojas de parra rellenas
- At the family gathering, everyone enjoyed homemade stuffed grape leaves filled with rice and spices.
- hummus and stuffed grape leaves
Examples
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It's a Mediterranean vegetarian platter filled with a giant hummus scoop, mini pitas, falafel, stuffed grape leaves, and tabbouli.
Blog text (3) -
Stuffed Grape Leaves
Blog text (30) -
Also start with stuffed grape leaves ($6.95), which are served in a vegetarian version or filled with rice and beef.
Blog text (34) -
Brad Glidden insisted she have coffee first, so she was drinking coffee and eating stuffed grape leaves on Terry's kitchen stool.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Mediterranean platter featured delicious stuffed grape leaves alongside hummus and tabbouleh.
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For lunch, she prepared a plate of stuffed grape leaves served with a tangy yogurt sauce.
Synonyms
A grape leaf wrapped around seasoned rice and sometimes meat
How Filling
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward compositional noun phrase: 'stuffed' (filled) applied to 'grape leaves' (leaves of a grapevine), so the dish meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This cooking construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., dolma/dolmades), making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
The name stuffed grape leaves comes from a simple cooking image: cooks wrap a small grape leaf around rice or meat to make little green rolls, so the leaves are literally 'stuffed'. That's why the phrase means the dish of grape leaves filled with rice, nuts, or meat.