Friday, February 11, 2011

Turkish Dishes: Dolma

"Dolma" - Stuffed capsicum

Stuffed Dolma

This is one of my wife's favorite dish in whole Turkish cuisine, because I believe, it contains rice! The dish looks a big complicated but it really does not take much time to cook.

Serving: 4 persons
Cooking Time: 40 mins

You will need:
8 pieces of green capsicum (Make sure that the shell is not too thick.)
2 cups of rice (Rice needs to rest in a warm water for about 20 minutes)
1 tea spoon cinnanom
1 tea spoon salt
1 tea spoon sugar
1/2 cup dried mint
1/2 cup black pepper powder
2 tomatoes
1 cup of olive oil
2 table spoon pine nuts
2 table spoon black raising or ribes nigrum which is really hard to find in Qatar.
1 table spoon pimento(all spice - this is optional, it might be difficult to find this)
1 onion

How to cook:
Heat the olive oil. Toss your pine nuts, let it turn a bit pinkish. Add chopped onion. After 10 minutes, pour the rice  - just make sure that the water is drained after soaking. Simmer all this for about 5 minutes and add the spices with two glasses of water. Wait until the mixture absorb the water. Place the mixture in a separate cup to cool down.

Capsicums top part need to be removed using a knife. Remove all seeds and sprinkle salt inside the capsicums.

When the rice mixture cooled down, you can start adding the mixture inside. Leave a half inch for the tomato  - this will be used as cover later on.

Put the filled capsicums in the pot half-filled with water. Cook slowly for about 30 minute in a medium heat.



Afiyet Olsun!



PS: This is our entry to ABC Wednesday: D is for Dolma.

Another PS - Wife note: Dolma is not my favorite just because it has rice in it - it's because it was one of the food served during our wedding day. It triggers happy memories.


Dolma

3 comments:

  1. Glad it has such happy memories. It does remind me of stuff I've eaten we just called, boringly, stuffed peppers.
    Thanks for participating!
    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  2. well, it is called stuffed peppers. ;) thanks! looking forward to the rest of the letters!

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  3. Wonderful to have food reminders of happy times. I have to try making dolmas.

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