🇬🇷 How to Make Dolmades

Craving Dolmades? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Dolmades at home, in about 1 hr 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 jar vine leaves in brine (about 30)
• 200g long-grain rice
• 1 onion, very finely chopped
• a big handful each of dill, mint and parsley
• juice of 2 lemons
• 5 tbsp olive oil
• salt, pepper

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Rinse the vine leaves well and blanch them 2 min to soften. Pat dry.
2. Mix the raw rice, onion, herbs, half the lemon juice, 3 tbsp oil and plenty of seasoning.
3. Lay a leaf vein-side up, put a teaspoon of filling near the stem, fold the sides in and roll tight but not straining — the rice needs room to swell.
4. Pack them seam-side down in a snug pan, lined with any torn leaves.
5. Add water to just cover, the rest of the lemon and oil, and a plate on top to weigh them down.
6. Simmer gently 45 min. Cool in the pan. Always better cold the next day.