DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Dolma
Peppers and tomatoes filled with meat, rice and herbs, simmered in tomato sauce.

About Dolma
Ozlem Warren connects these stuffed peppers and tomatoes with cooking in her mother and grandmother's kitchens. Her rendition fills both vegetables with ground beef, wholegrain basmati rice, grated onion and herbs.
Parsley and dried mint season the filling with black pepper. The scooped tomato flesh becomes part of the cooking sauce, joined by garlic and, optionally, red pepper paste.
The vegetables simmer upright with their own tops as lids. At serving, some of the sauce is spooned over them before the caps are replaced; plain yogurt accompanies the hot dolmas.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Dolma
Ozlem Warren's meat-and-rice stuffed peppers and tomatoes.
- Bell peppersBase
- TomatoesBase
- GarlicAromatic
- Ground beefProtein
- Wholegrain basmati riceFilling
- OnionAromatic
- Flat-leaf parsleyAromatic
- Olive oilCooking medium
- Dried mintSeasoning
- Ground black pepperSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Red pepper pasteSeasoning · Optional
- Red pepper flakesFinish · Optional
- Plain natural yogurtAccompaniment
- WaterLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Bell peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual38 bell peppers, colour unspecified.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual39 whole shells/caps and reserved own flesh51/61 for sauce, not separate purchased puree.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual40/65 sauce cloves. Plain yogurt55 chosen over garlic-yogurt alternative, no extra formula.
- Ground beef: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual42 offered beef/lamb/turkey alternatives, beef chosen alone.
- Wholegrain basmati rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual32/43 explicitly wholegrain basmati, exact prepared rendition retained, not silently swapped white rice.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual44 grated.
- Flat-leaf parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual46 filling and52/65 pan/sauce allocations consolidated.
- Dried mint: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual48 filling and65 sauce allocations consolidated.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red pepper paste (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual32/53/65 optional red-pepper paste selected over tomato-paste alternative, full prepared formula unprovided.
- Red pepper flakes (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit54/67 optional serving sprinkle.
- Plain natural yogurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual55/67 plain option selected over prepared garlic yogurt; dairy Milk definite.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only65 explicit cooking water around stuffed vegetables.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Turkey
- AlgeriaCatalogue link pending review
- AzerbaijanCatalogue link pending review
- TajikistanCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Turkish Cuisine
- Algerian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Tajik CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Azerbaijani CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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