A quick recipe for delicious dolmas, ingredients: anything you have in your fridge.
Dolmas Recipe:
>> 2 Onions
>> 4 Carrots
>> 2 cups of rice (preferably long white, as it absorbs the flavors better)
>> 3 tomatoes, diced
>> Half jar of grape leaves (Sadaf is a pretty good company)
>> A hot peeper, simply because I like spice in everything
>> Juice of 1 whole lemon
>> A handful of mushrooms (I used dry, but fresh are even better!)
>> A few cloves of garlic
>> Salt + Pepper to taste ;)
Toast rice in ghee, until some pop. Add in some water and let cook for twenty minutes or so. You want the rice to be partially cooked, later you will cook the rest. Add in your tomatoes, and let sit.
Simultaneously as the rice is cooking, add in your onions and carrots and sauté! Add in the hot pepper and let cook, plop in the minced garlic and lemon juice. Once this is well cooked, combine with the rice and tomatoes. Mix well and get ready to stuff.
Dolmas mean "to stuff", so take the pickled leaves out the jar carefully and begin by placing a teaspoon to a tablespoon, depending on size at the base of the leaf.
Steam the bazillions of dolmas (stacking) for about 20 minutes and then let cool.
Served best cold and with the company of friends.
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