As someone who enjoys cooking (and eating!), I always shy away from middle eastern food, because it takes so much time and effort to make. However, I think some of their dishes are really worth the trouble of spending hours for them, with one of them being Dolma.
When it comes to Bell Pepper Dolmas, I like to cook the Turkish way, because that's where I first remember trying them. As someone who doesn't like peppers, I was surprised by how good they tasted. I don't exactly remember the recipe I used to make this, since it was months ago, but this one was the closest recipe I found to the one I used. I do remember that I combined that with another recipe that was either Armenian or Greek version, but I couldn't find any page similar to the one I remember. The Greek version seems to be vastly different than the version I'm more familiar with (Turkish).
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| So many versions of Dolmas! I suggest you try them all if you ever get the chance. Personally not fan of the cabbage and eggplant ones though. |
Dolma means "stuffed" in Turkish, in Arabic we call it "mahashi", which essentially means the same thing. It's a dish that's very common across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Dolma is a dish made with cooked vegetables stuffed with rice, herbs and sometimes meat. The most common vegetables used are grape leaves, bell peppers, squash/zucchini, eggplants, tomato and cabbage.
My favourite one is stuffed zucchini made with the Syrian version, but because I don't have the proper tools to make them in Japan, nowadays I only make bell pepper Dolmas, which is a bit easier to stuff considering they have a hollow structure by nature.
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| You guys have already seen how it looks from inside in my first post, but this is how it looked before I cut it in half. |
When it comes to Bell Pepper Dolmas, I like to cook the Turkish way, because that's where I first remember trying them. As someone who doesn't like peppers, I was surprised by how good they tasted. I don't exactly remember the recipe I used to make this, since it was months ago, but this one was the closest recipe I found to the one I used. I do remember that I combined that with another recipe that was either Armenian or Greek version, but I couldn't find any page similar to the one I remember. The Greek version seems to be vastly different than the version I'm more familiar with (Turkish).
I like stuffed peppers, I guess they are popular world wide! In America we call them Hunky Hand Grenades!
ReplyDeleteDolma is better 😤
DeleteThey look like hand granades so I’m also gonna call then that
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