Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, iraqi style dolma. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Iraqi style Dolma is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Iraqi style Dolma is something which I have loved my entire life.
Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes common in the Middle East and surrounding regions including the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia. And since Iraqi Dolma is, perhaps, the single most important Iraqi dish in the diaspora, we easily chose it. For me, Dolma has been a vital way in which I connect to my Iraqi heritage. Iraqi Style Dolma - How to Make Iraqi Style Dolma.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook iraqi style dolma using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Iraqi style Dolma:
- Get rice
- Get kilo lamb mince (chicken or beef mince can also be used)
- Make ready garlic cloves, crushed
- Prepare salt
- Get Optional: spices, such as cumin & coriander powder, chilli etc
- Prepare dried tamarind soaked in 1 cup of boiling water
- Get Tomatoes
- Get small red peppers
- Take courgette
- Take medium onions
- Get Large spinach leaves
It's not that it's difficult; its just time consuming. That's the classic Iraqi style, but dolma shapeshifts into different forms depending on country and region. Turkey has a diverse family of stuffed dishes—one is called sarma (from the Turkish word. See more ideas about Iraqi, Iraq, Iraqi cuisine.
Steps to make Iraqi style Dolma:
- First, strain tamarind through a sieve using a spoon to rub the pulp through. Reserve.
- RICE: mix rice with the salt, garlic, mince and ½ of the strained tamarind juice, and spices if using.
- TOMATOES & PEPPERS: cut tops so not completely removed, but remain as a lid flap. Scoop out centres. Chop up tomato centres and add to rice mix.
- COURGETTE: cut courgette into half or thirds. Scoop out centres. Chop up the centres and add to rice mix.
- ONIONS: before peeling the onions, bash and roll the onions on a hard surface to soften the layers. Top and tail. Then cut a slit lengthways just to the centre of each onion. Carefully pull the layers apart.
- Half fill each vegetable with the rice mix. Layer the veg into a rice cooker or pot first putting the peppers and courgettes, then onions and tomatoes and finely the spinach. Ensure the veg is snuggly arranged. Any spare rice mix can be tucked into gaps between the veg and laid over the top.
- Mix the remaining tamarind water with 1 cup of water and pour over the veg. (Water should reach halfway up the pot. It doesn't need to cover the veg.) Turn on rice cooker and let it cook till it turns off. Allow to sit for a further 10mins or so.
- Serve with plain or minted yogurt, and/or some hummus.
Turkey has a diverse family of stuffed dishes—one is called sarma (from the Turkish word. See more ideas about Iraqi, Iraq, Iraqi cuisine. James Reinhard outside an Iraqi police department in Baghdad, Iraq. Sell custom creations to people who love your style. What better way to spend a Friday morning than making stuffed vegetables and leaves?
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