Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, stuffed vine leaves rolls (dolmeh). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
#Dolmeh or Stuffed vine Leaves rolls are one of the most popular dishes in Iran, Turkey, Greece, and many Central Asian countries. You can find Dolmeh in different types: sometimes Dolmeh includes wrapping leaves of grape leaves , or cabbage leaves around filling and sometimes stuffed eggplant, bell pepper or tomato are called dolmeh as well. Add the spices (dried mint, cinnamon, lemon salt, black pepper, dried currants, sugar and allspice) and chopped parsley. Dolma is a family of stuffed dishes found in the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East, in which a vegetable or leaf is used as a container or wrapping for another food used as a filling.
Stuffed vine leaves rolls (Dolmeh) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Stuffed vine leaves rolls (Dolmeh) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed vine leaves rolls (dolmeh) using 11 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed vine leaves rolls (Dolmeh):
- Get 100 g fresh and tender grape leaves or jar grape leaves
- Make ready 200 g ground beef or lamb
- Get 100 g onion
- Get Bunch fresh fragrant herbs (dill, mint, parsley, coriander, spring onion, chives)
- Get 4 tbsp yogurt
- Get 3 tbsp yellow split peas
- Prepare 10 tbsp cooked rice
- Take 8 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
- Make ready 1/4 tsp white pepper
Dolmades (Dolmathes) refers to Greek dishes made with either cabbage or vine/ grape leaves, stuffed with a delicious herb-y rice mix, shaped into little rolls and boiled until wonderfully tender. Some dolmades recipe variations besides rice, herbs and seasonings also include minced meat (beef and/or pork). Stuffed grape leaves are very popular in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. Persian grape leaves are usually stuffed with ground beef and rice.
Steps to make Stuffed vine leaves rolls (Dolmeh):
- In a big bowl with ground meat, add grated onions, cooked yellow split peas, yogurt,cooked rice and spices and oil.
- In dolmeh, fragrant herbs are very important, especially mint and dill with powerful fragrant give gorgeous flavor to your food.Wash herbs. Chop finely all your herbs. Add them to the other ingredients. Mix well by hand.
- Now we are going to roll our dolmeh. First of all, if you use jar grape leaves, drain off brine and rinse them with cold water. If you use fresh tender grape leaves, bring water to boil and allow to cook leaves for 3-4 minutes. Cut off stems of leaves by knife or scissor. Take a leaf, and place 1 tbsp of stuffing in the center of a leaf. Give a roll, then fold bottoms in and go on with rolling it again. Repeat it with rest of your stuffing and leaves.
- Take a big pot. place rolled leaves one by one in the pot.
- Pour 300 ml cold water plus 3 tbsp olive oil. Place a small plate top of dolmeh. You do this to avoid of moving rolled leaves in the pot. Cover the pot and allow to cook on the medium heat for 40 minutes.
- You can serve dolmeh either warm or cold. I personally prefer cold ones. Nosh-e Jan
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Stuffed grape leaves are very popular in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. Persian grape leaves are usually stuffed with ground beef and rice. I have always loved stuffed grape leaves and have fond memories of my grandmother making huge pots of it. They are fairly easy to make even though a bit time consuming. Grape leaves are stuffed with a beef, herb, and rice mixture in this slightly-sweet version of Iranian dolmeh.
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