Sarmale

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Sarmale

사르마

Romanian and Moldovan culinary specialty

About this dish

Stuffed leaves—more commonly known by its sub-types stuffed grape leaves, stuffed vine leaves, or stuffed cabbage leaves—are a food made of leaves rolled around a filling of minced meat, grains such as rice, or both. It is occasionally known in the English-speaking world by its Turkish name, sarma, which, as a dish of the Ottoman Empire, is also used in Armenian and some Central and Eastern European languages. Since the Ottoman Empire's dissolution, its popularity persists in Turkish, Romanian, Moldovan, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Kosovan, Albanian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Macedonian, Greek, Armenian, Uzbek, Persian, Iraqi, Levantine, Egyptian, Indian and Bengali cuisines.

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