How To Wrap Dolma
Author: Marko Balašević
Time for reading: ~2
minutes
Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
CHAPTERS (Table Of Contents)
Dolma is a very tasty dish. A Bulgarian and an Armenian, an Azerbaijani and an Iranian, a Turk and a Greek will praise their dolma as the most delicious.
How to wrap grape leaf dolma
Dolma is a very tasty dish. A Bulgarian and an Armenian, an Azerbaijani and an Iranian, a Turk and a Greek will praise their dolma as the most delicious. And none of them will be wrong. Indeed, in dolma, a combination proven for centuries is combined: rice, minced meat, grape leaf.
This combination can even be called ideal, because there are no random components in it. Rice takes away excess fat from meat, grape leaf adds sourness and astringency to the dish, and meat - satiety. The ritual is also very important - wrapping the filling in a grape leaf. Experienced housewives do it with special dexterity: quickly and at the same time carefully, as if swaddling a baby.
The smallest rolls are rolled in Azerbaijan. They are smaller than the little finger. I bring to your attention a simple but effective way of wrapping dolma. Thanks to him, the rolls will turn out to be neat, thin, beautiful and, accordingly, the dish will have a presentable, neat appearance when served. It takes a few seconds to wrap one roll.
Recipes with minced lamb
Recipes with the ingredient marinated grape leaves
- minced lamb
- Pickled grape leaves
- A spoon
- transparent file
How to wrap dolma step by step instructions with photos
Step 1
For work, we need ready-made minced meat for dolma with rice, herbs and spices, a transparent file for documents or food cellophane a little thicker, a spoon, pickled grape leaves.
Step 2
Rinse the leaves and put one of them on the file, matte side up.
Step 3
Spread 1 teaspoon of filling on the wide side.
Step 4
Wrap the wide edge of the sheet on top of the filling.
Step 5
Wrap the edge of the sheet on the filling on the right and left.
Step 6
From above, cover with the edge of the file and fix the filling well, pressing it through the file and pulling it slightly to the right.
Step 7
Now stretch your hand to the left, pressing the dolma to the board and rolling it over the board (the file is not wrapped in a roll with the dolma, but is rolled on top of the dolma sheet parallel to the hand).
Step 8
The roll is ready. It takes a few seconds to roll one such roll.
Step 9
Dolma is ready for heat treatment.