Dolma (meat-filled)
photo by evelynathens
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 1 large onion, minced
- 1 1⁄2 1 1/2 lbs lamb or 1 1/2 lbs pork (I use pork)
- 3⁄4 cup short-grain rice
- 3 tablespoons chopped of fresh mint or 3 teaspoons dried mint
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill or 3 teaspoons dried dill
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 100 jarred grape leaves, packed in brine, rinsed thoroughly (about)
- 1 1⁄2 lemons, juice of
- boiling water
- 2 beef bouillon cubes
-
Egg-Lemon Sauce
- 2 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 lemons, juice of
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
directions
- Combine meat with olive oil, onion, herbs, rice and season generously.
- Line the pot you will be cooking your dolma in with a couple of layers of torn grape leaves (to prevent the dolma from being scorched while cooking).
- Place a grape leaf, shiny side down, on surface in front of you.
- If the stem is quite thick, cut it out with a knife, making a V.
- Pinch off about a teaspoon of the meat filling and place in the centre of the leaf.
- Fold in sides of leaf and roll up, not too loose and not too tight (allowing a bit for the expansion of the rice as it cooks), into neat little packets.
- Place neatly in pot and continue making dolma until you've used up all your meat mixture.
- Pour lemon juice over and cover dolma with boiling water, covering dolma with about 1/2 inch of water.
- Weight down with a plate and put lid on pot.
- Cook at a gentle simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until rice is tender.
- Carefully remove dolma, and place in a heatproof platter.
- Make Egg-Lemon Sauce (Avgolemono).
- Beat the eggs with the lemon juice and corn flour.
- Slowly dribble in hot stock left from cooking dolma, whisking egg mixture constantly.
- Keep adding hot liquid slowly, whisking, to temper the eggs.
- Pour the egg mixture into the pot with the remaining stock and whisk over a medium-low heat until sauce has thickened.
- Pour sauce over your dolma and enjoy!
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.