How to Make Dolmades | Stuffed Grape Leaves

These delicious flavor-packed dolmades with ground lamb, garlic, lots of herbs and rice wrapped in wonderful grape leaves all smothered in a silky lemon sauce. This is one of the recipes that my grandparents and mom would make for all of our big celebrations and holidays. These are a Greek version, but there are so many variations of the recipe with different fillings and flavors. If you haven't had freshly made dolmades you need to give them a try. This delicious recipe just so happens to be from the my cookbook, so if you have a copy, crack it open and bake along with me!

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[suewomack]

so sweet involving children in cooking...i loved my babies in the kitchen with me, theyd get so excited!!!

[katherinejones]

The absolute pride shining in your eyes when your son finished his first roll is heartwarming. All of us fellow parents can absolutely relate.

[flamingolady]

These look great, I like the vegetarian suggestion. Loved your sweet son was your helper. Just so precious.

[katiag]

My grandmother’s version (Armenian) is cooked with the meat filling raw, so takes a bit longer to cook . But love this dish, we serve it with yogurt and crushed garlic sauce.. haven’t had it in ages .. and your son is adorable 🥰

[jamjar]

I lived for two years in Cyprus as a Navy brat (60 years ago) and enjoyed these there. I'm excited to try this recipe!

[athomewithnika]

I am from Azerbaijan, we do it differently, but I love the Greek and Turkish versions too. Each one of them has unique taste and smell, but all of them are delicious. Your son is adorable 🥰

[khammi]

Romania has their version of this as well. When the lady of the home made them she also made them with cabbage leaves. It was my absolute favorite meal when I visited! Delicious!

[maymohammed]

Hello! I’m from Iraq, we use ( onion, tomato, green pepper 🫑; potatoes, eggplant and zucchini too plus a few garlic cloves). And we use ground beef and lamb fat( the white fat). And add with fine dill, grain rice or Egyptian rice, black pepper, salt and lemon salt . Mix all together. Some people don’t like grape leaves, that’s all.

[y.mma]

I'm from Egypt and this dish is really popular there, my mother usually makes it and we love to eat it🤩🤩I really love that you also made a video about how you make it. I'm really proud to be an Egyptian and for those who haven't tried it yet, go try it trust me, you won't be disappointed🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

[asudebirtane]

In our Turkish household we generally do it without meat and it's much thinner, in Istanbul some places add sour cherries too it's delicious. When I go to my grandma making dolma together is our traditional activity. We call the ones wrapped in leaves "sarma" and the ones filled in pepper zucchini or tomatoes "dolma"

[lisameneely]

So lovely to see a different version thank you! My Lebanese Grandmother was so proud of hers! Quite different! No tomatoes in the base… she had Lamb, currants (I’m using pomegranates) Pignolias, green onions, and white rice, Garlic goes around it in the cooking process as well as the Lemon! I do it in the pressure cooker… I could eat these all day every day! Amazing to see all the different interpretations 🥰🌷😘🦋

[colleengallo]

My neighbor from Cyprus taught my family how to make these. We use to ‘hunt’ for wild grape leaves every spring. Then we would have grape leaf rolling parties with 6 women. Pots and pots of domades. We didn’t pre cook the rice or meat, they cooked in the leaves.

[lalahh]

I love your interaction with your son. I think it's great to let kids try new things.

[bessavaldinoto]

I made these with ground chicken and added a mixture of water, cumin, garlic, lemon juice, tomato sauce, salt, pepper and lemon slices over rolled grape leaves, plate on top and cooked for about 50 minutes. It was delicious! thank you for a very tasty version!

[CerenDEMIR-cmsi]

I am from Turkey and we called them Sarma. Dolma is made with pepper and rice. Sarma made with rice and grapes leaves. And also it has to be thinner like a baby finger. One more thing we eat it with yogurt.

[Msa-wz]

I made this today and it was fan-freaking-tactic. Time consuming but well worth every single minute. The oregano and mint plus the lemon sauce - incredible! My family is Iranian and I have core memories from helping my mom roll up grape leaves. We had a grape plant in our backyard at one point and would pick fresh leaves for our dolmas.

I made this Greek inspired version in honor of my late mother-in-law. Yia Yia would have loved them!

[zakiyehsamimi]

Hi...I'm from Iran, in Iran we called this dolme and so delicious...😋

[j.miller]

I love Dolmades! I learn how to make these from my Greek Chef boyfriend. Delicious! He was a great chief.

[debbybrady]

My Syrian granny made this every thanksgiving and Christmas. Now my cousins and I follow the tradition 😁

[theesweetieca]

Your little helper is Thee CUTEST!!! ❤❤