If you like Middle Eastern Food you would of surely tried the awesome dish Warak Arish. Traditionally its stuffed wrapped grape vine leaves. The traditional Lebanese recipe is made with white rice and lamb or beef and served with yogurt. Obviously my version is veganized and well I switched the Grape leaves for Beet Leaves and the rice to red, because I like my food with color :)

It's so obvious now but I honestly didn't know you could actually eat the beet leaves until I saw someone here on steemit use them a few months ago, I think it was @canadianrenegade but for the life of me could not find the original post. I found it so tantalizing that I could get so much out of one beetroot. I had to buy one even though my partner hates them! Okay so they didn't eat the raw pieces in the salad but stuffed leaves and frittes were gobbled down, no complaints, in fact they loved them!

First I made the filling for the beet leaves, staying as true as I could to the traditional recipe:

• Red Rice (Or any rice you like)
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Fresh Italian Parsley ( I used dried)
• Lemon, Freshly Squeezed
• Dash Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Dried Mint (I didn't have any so I used fresh basil instead)
• Pinch of Salt of choice
• Pinch of ground black pepper

Honestly just the rice without the stuffing is a tasty meal in it self! I'm craving it a lot at the moment, great for a lunch box!

So in the tradition recipe the vine leaves get cooked but by using beet leaves instead requires no extra effect, just rolling the leaves and it's ready to go!

Now it's time to use the stems of the beet leaves for this I decided to create fritters. Mainly because I had some left over gluten free oat bread that was going a bit hard and I just didn't want to see it go to waste. You can definitely use something else like chickpeas or any kind of beans.

I used

+ Oat Bread
+ Carrots
+ Spring Onion
+ Salt of Choice
+ Chia Egg
+ Beet stems

Everything was blitzed in the food processor and then shaped into small fritters and lightly fried in some good quality oil. If you've ever tried fried bread before you will know that these fritter had a very tasty moreish flavor, but didn't feel quite as unhealthy as just frying bread because of all the delicious vegetables in there.

Also lets not forget the point of this whole recipe was because I was actually using the raw beetroot for my lovely fresh garden salad (made with my own home grown leaves) and the edible Japanese flowers, unfortunately spring is fading fast here and these are the last few flowers left.

I'm entering this recipe in to @lensveganliving awesome contest #fruitsandveggiesmonday, if you don't already know about it, don't hesitate to click on the links and find out more!

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