DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Dolmadakia Gialantzi
Also known as: Meatless Stuffed Vine Leaves, Yalantzi Dolma
Vine-leaf rolls filled with rice and herbs, simmered with lemon and olive oil.
About Dolmadakia Gialantzi
Thessaloniki's City of Gastronomy records these dolmadakia gialantzi with dill and fresh spearmint. Its account places the rice-filled vine-leaf rolls in the food traditions carried to Greece by people from Asia Minor.
Spring onions are sauteed in olive oil before rice, herbs and lemon juice are added. Fresh vine leaves enclose small portions of this aromatic filling, folded and rolled into compact parcels.
The rolls are arranged tightly over a lining of leaves and gently cooked with more lemon and olive oil. The publisher presents them as a festive meze or a dish in their own right, served with yogurt.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Dolmadakia Gialantzi
Thessaloniki City of Gastronomy's dill-and-spearmint dolmadakia gialantzi.
- Fresh grape leavesBase
- Extra virgin olive oilCooking medium
- Spring onionsAromatic
- Glace riceFilling
- DillAromatic
- Fresh spearmintAromatic
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Freshly ground black pepperSeasoning
- YogurtAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Fresh grape leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual66 fresh option selected over jarred; blanching77 and extra leaf lining both retained within same food-contact ingredient.
- Extra virgin olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual67 filling and cooking78 allocations consolidated, broader olive-oil link.
- Spring onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Glace rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual69 Greek glace rice named, broader rice mapping, exact varietal not forced from separate medium-grain advice.
- Dill: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh spearmint: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual72/76/78 filling/cooking allocations consolidated.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit73 water option selected over vegetable stock, also fresh-leaf blanching77. No opaque stock or broth components invented.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Freshly ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Yogurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual78 yogurt selected over tzatziki; dairy Milk definite, full product formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Greece
- GreeceCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Thessaloniki Cuisine
- Asia Minor Greek CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.