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- 1/2 kg soft small grape leaves
- 2 cups of normal rice
- 1/2 kg minced meat
- 1/2 kg of lamb tail or neck (optional)
- 1/2 kg of fresh ripe tomatoes
- 1/2 kg can of peeled tomatoes
- 100 gr. of butter
- Salt , black pepper & allspice o taste.
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Dolma & Warak Inab
Dolma is a verbal noun of the Turkish verb dolmak, 'to be stuffed', and means 'stuffed (thing)'. Dolma is a stuffed vegetable, that is, a vegetable that is hollowed out and filled with stuffing. This applies to courgette, tomato, pepper, eggplant, and the like; stuffed mackerel, squid, and mussel are also called dolma. Dishes involving wrapping leaves such as vine leaves or cabbage leaves around a filling are called sarma, though in many languages the distinction is usually not made. Sarma is derived from the Turkish verb sarmak which means 'to wrap'.
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Adnan's Kitchen |
Warak Inab
(Stuffed vine leaves) |
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- Wash grape leaves and stack them in piles. Drop stacks carefully into boiling water and boil till
soft and yellowish.
- Wash rice and mix well with the minced meat, butter, salt,
black pepper and a pinch of allspice.
- Place the lamb tail or necks in the bottom of a deep
cooking pot.
- Wash the tomatoes then slice and arrange
over the meat.
- Roll leaves with rice mix closing them on
all sides
- Arrange rolled leaves in cooking pot
until all is stacked firmly
- Mash the contents of the tomato can with a fork and pourover pot.
- Get a normal plate slightly smaller in diameter than the
pot and place it inverted on top of the rolled Leaves and slightly press
and keep there while cooking to prevent the vine leaves from scattering
while cooking. Add water to barely cover the plate.
- Place pot on hob and boil. Turn heat down to to
minimum and simmer for an hour or until liquid dries up.
- Lift from fire and jerk pot briskly sideways in order to
free the contents of the pot from the sides. Place a flat serving plate on top of the pot and carefully
turn the pot upside-down.
- Lift pot carefully so the contents remain intact in a cylinder
shape.
- Serve hot with yogurt on the side, or yogurt with chopped
cucumbers, garlic and dry mint
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