Dolma with Grape Leaves

   Dolma With 
            &
  Without Sauce

    Dolma is Azerbaijan national food, you can cook it in any season, but mostly spring, summer and autumn with fresh leaves, but winter with canned leaves. We have a 3 kinds of  Dolma, and here is one of them.

For Dolma we need:

- 1pcs Vidalia or Red Onion;
- 1 bunch of Fennel;
- 2lb/1kg Canned or Fresh Grape Leaves;
- 1/2lb/250gr Rice;
-1lb/500gr Ground Beef;
-1/2lb/300gr Ground Lamb Meat;
- Salt;
- Olive Oil;
- Black Ground Pepper for Taste.

For Sauce:

- 3 cloves of Garlic;
- 1/2lb/300gr Yogurt;
- Salt.

Dolma's ingredients has to be cut into small pieces and mix with ground meat, and add its salt and pepper. Grape leaves has to cook separately 5 minutes. After everything is ready need to fill each grape leaves with ingredients and wrap them in the shape of fat pen, but short and accurately, after arrange them inside pot, then add approximately 300gr water and olive oil, and cook it in low temperature on stove.

For sauce garlic need to squash and mix with salt and yogurt.

Nush Olsun!!!