🇮🇶 Iraq cuisine · #2

Iraqi Dolma

Iraqi Dolma
Time150 min
Serves8
Ingredients11

Vine leaves, onions, peppers, aubergine and courgette stuffed with rice and meat flavoured with pomegranate molasses, cooked over lamb ribs and turned out.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Core the vegetables; blanch the onions and separate layers.
  2. Mix rice, meat, paste, molasses and spices.
  3. Stuff the vegetables and roll the vine leaves and onion layers.
  4. Line the pot with ribs and pack the stuffed vegetables on top.
  5. Add water, weigh down and cook 1½ hours, then invert.
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