Sarma (food)

Sarma

Type	Dolma
Course	main course
Region or state	Middle East, Europe
Serving temperature	hot or cold
Main ingredients	cabbage leaves, rice, mince meat
Variations	With cabbage leaves, mince meat and rice filling (served hot)
Media: Sarma

Sarma (Turkish for "wrapping" or "rolling"; Cyrillic: Сарма) is a traditional food in Ottoman cuisine (nowadays, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, etc.) made of vegetable leaves rolled around a filling of minced meat, grains such as rice, or both. It is commonly marketed in the English-speaking world as stuffed grape leaves, stuffed vine leaves, or stuffed cabbage leaves. The vegetable leaves may be cabbage, patience dock, collard, grapevine, kale or chard leaves. Sarma is part of the broader category of stuffed dishes known as dolma, and has equivalents (such as the Polish Gołąbki) in Eastern European cuisines from the northern Baltic through Ukraine.