Food & drink
Dolma
Vegetables and vine leaves stuffed with rice, herbs and spice.
The Turkish name
Dolma
Recording on its way.
The story
Dolma means "filled". Peppers, tomatoes, courgettes and aubergines are hollowed and stuffed with rice, onion, herbs and sometimes minced meat; vine leaves rolled around the same filling are called yaprak sarma.
The olive-oil versions, zeytinyağlı dolma, are served cold with lemon and are a summer staple. Making them together is a family ritual before a big meal.
At a glance
- Meaning
- Filled
- Cold version
- Zeytinyağlı dolma
- Rolled version
- Yaprak sarma