Name: Meat-Stuffed Cabbage Leaves with Fruit (Dolmayani)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; ¼ to ½ cup long-grain white rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and drained; 1 pound ground beef or lamb; 2 or 3 quinces, or ½ pound plums (6 to 8 small); 1 large head cabbage; 1 cup tomato juice; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill; 2 onions, grated; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; 1½ teaspoons salt; juice of 4 lemons (about 1 cup)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sephardic Flavors

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2000

About

These cabbage rolls from Sefarad Yemekleri are part of a large repertoire of Sephardic dolmas. A delicious sweet-and-sour sauce forms during the cooking of the cabbage packets with seasonal fruit, quinces in fall or winter, and Plums in summer.

Ingredients

1 large head cabbage
1 pound ground beef or lamb
3

Method

Bring a large pot two-thirds full of salted water to a boil. Cut out the core of the cabbage with a sharp knife. Slip the cabbage into the water, reduce the heat so the water simmers, and cook until the cabbage leaves soften, about 10 minutes. Drain carefully and remove the outer large leaves. You should have 12 to 16 leaves. Reserve the remaining cabbage for another use.

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