Dolma barley, bread or kasha for the rice. There are many varieties of the "zeytinyağlı" (with olive oil) and "sağyağlı" (with clarified butter) "dolmas". The "zeytinyağlı" dolmas are usually stuffed with rice and served cold, but variations with meat based fillings are served warm. The origins of stuffed vine leaves are unknown, but the dish was popular throughout the Ottoman Empire and can be found in many regional cuisines today. Sephardim call them "yaprakes finos", and they are known as "dolma bargh" in Iran, "dolmades" in Greece, "yalanchi sarma" in Armenia, and "yerba" in Syria. Some Israelis may use leaves picked
Stuffed bitter melon soup Stuffed bitter melon soup Stuffed bitter melon soup or stuffed bitter gourd soup is a soup in Chinese cuisine which is popular in Asia. Its main ingredient is bitter melon with some different stuffed ingredients depending on who made it. The most used stuffed ingredient is pork. Bitter melon has many names depending on the country that call them, for example, Gourd melon, ‘Mara’ in Thai, and ‘Leung Gwa’, which means ‘the cooling melon’ in Cantonese. Bitter melon is in season in the summer while dried for off-season. The main ingredient is bitter melon. Most of the stuffed ingredient are