Dolmas

Dolmas

Ingredients:

• Mutton mince 500 gm
• Rice 750 gm
• Tomatoes 1/2 kg
• Potatoes 1/2 kg
• Cabbage 1
• Big green chillies 6-8
• Eggplants 2-3
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 cup
• Oil ½ cup
• Salt 2 tbsp
• Big red chillies dried 12
• Chopped ginger 1 tbsp heaped
• Chopped garlic 1 tbsp heaped
• Roasted cumin seeds 2 tsp
• Garam masala 2 tsp

Method:

• Grind together big dry deseeded red chillies soaked in hot water, chopped ginger, chopped garlic, roasted cumin seeds and garam masala. In a big bowl, mix the washed soaked rice, the masala mix, the mutton mince, oil, the salt, and the lemon juice. Prepare vegetables by blanching the cabbage leaves, scooping out seeds from tomatoes and scooping out seeds from eggplants and the seeds from the big green chillies. Scoop out the peeled potatoes and add the scooped shreds in the rice masala mix. 
• Now take a big saucepan and spread some of the rice and masala mix in the bottom, then fill all the vegetables with rice and masala mix and place them in the pot putting the potatoes in first. Fill the cabbage leaves and all the other vegetables and arrange in pot. Pour the rest of the remaining rice and masala mix on top. Add sufficient water to cook. Put on high flame till it comes to a boil and then simmer for an hour or so till the rice on top is cooked. You need to add some water after a while if the rice on top dries up. Dish it out and enjoy.