Dolma

Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes common in Mediterranean cuisine and surrounding regions.It also include Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Western Asia, they also like to make this dishes to serve the family and guests.

The vegetable to be use normally are tomato, pepper, onion, eggplant & zucchini.There have 2 ways to serving the dolma.

Meat Dolma are generally served warm and with tahini or egg lemon sauce.

Dolma prepare with olive oil and stuffed with rice are generally served cold with garlic yogurt sauce.

The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grain. It also can add in onion, herbs like dill, mint or parsley and spices.

Let prepare Dolma ingredient :  

- 1 jar of Grape Leaf

- 1 pcs Red Onion can chop diced

- 1 cup Basmati Rice

- 1 can Tomato Sauce

- 1 can Tomato Paste

- 1 tbsp Pepper

- 1 tbsp Garlic powder

- 500 g Ground meat ( can use beef, chicken or lamb) 

- 1 tsp salt

- 1 bunches fresh parsley and chop mined. 

Instruction :

- Remove the grape leaf form the jar and rinse very well under cold water. Bring a pot of water to a

   boil and blanch the leaf in batches for 4 to 5 min.

- Add the salt into the tomato sauce

- Take a big bowl put in the ground meat, onion, parsley and rice.

- Add in tomato sauce and mixing those ingratiate by the hand until mix well.

- Prepare another big pot and put some olive oil on the bottom.

- Start to roll the Dolma. (Can refer the below picture how to roll the dolma)

- Put the Dolma in the pot and arrange it nicely.Add in the tomato paste on top and put enough water 

  to cover until the sauce line.

- Put on medium fire cook it until boil. After the Dolma boiled and half cover it with the lid again 

  and cook around 15 min.The last cover up and cook another 10 min.

The way roll the Dolma with the filling.

Steph's Home Cook Dolma