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
Ingredients
Ingredients
