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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Dice the onions and sauté with 1/4 cup of olive oil. | 2. When they turn translucent, add the pine nuts and sauté for 5 more minutes. | 3. Add rice and stir constantly for 5-10 minutes until the rice is translucent. | 4. Add the spices (dried mint, cinnamon, lemon salt, black pepper, dried currants, sugar and allspice) and chopped parsley. | 5. After another quick stir, add 1/2 cup of boiling water and simmer on low medium heat for 15-20 minutes until all the liquid is absorbed by the rice mixture. | 6. Take off heat and let cool. | 7. And now, here comes the fun part. Traditionally, you would put a spoonful of the cooled mixture in the center of the top part of the leaf, fold the sides inwards and then roll the leaf like a cylinder. But since I have “The Ultimate Dolma Machine” (follow the link mentioned in the description section), I just placed a leaf on the rubber compartment of the machine, put a tbps of mixture in the middle and with a single slide, there comes my dolma from the other side of the machine. The process was a breeze. It took me only 10 minutes to roll nearly 40 perfectly shaped dolmas. Below is the process fully photographed. | 8. As the final step, spread a layer of vine leaves on the bottom of a large and heavy pot (to prevent the stuffed leaves from burning). | 9. Lay all your dolmas side by side and tuck very tightly. | 10. Transfer the remaining 1/4 cups of olive oil, juice of half a lemon and 2 cups of boiling water, cover with a plate upside down (so that the dolmas don’t move around in boiling water) and bring to a boil. | 11. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer until all the water is absorbed (roughly 45-60 minutes). | 12. Transfer to your serving dish and let cool. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
grape leaf	1	lb	pickled washed drained	421.8414	78.5169	25.4012	9.6162
onion	4		diced	176.0	41.096000000000004	4.84	0.44
rice	2	cups	washed drained	1357.9	282.125	27.898000000000003	11.84
flat leaf parsley	1	cup	chopped	-	-	-	-
olive oil	1/2	cup		954.72	0.0	0.0	108.0
pine nut	1/3	cup		302.85	5.886	6.1605	30.7665
currant	1/4	cup	dried	17.64	4.3064	0.392	0.1148
mint flake	1	tablespoon	dried	-	-	-	-
allspice	1	teaspoon		4.997	1.3703	0.1157	0.1651
black pepper	1/8	teaspoon		0.7216	0.1839	0.0299	0.0094
cinnamon	1/8	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
sugar	1	teaspoon	granulated	6.6625	1.2502	0.2085	0.10400000000000001
lemon salt	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
lemon	1/2			0.6404	0.2058	0.0243	0.0066

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.