Stuffed squash Stuffed squash Stuffed squash, marrow, mahshi or zucchini is a dish of the region of the former Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to the Levant and Egypt, a kind of dolma. It consists of various kinds of squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and sometimes meat and cooked on the stovetop or in the oven. The meat version is served hot, as a main course. The meatless version is considered an "olive-oil dish" and is often eaten at room temperature or warm. The placenta and seeds of larger, shorter, cylindrical immature squashes are pulled off, and the further proceeding is
Sarma (food) tomato paste. Vine leaves may also be used to wrap stuffed celery root. Before wrapping, the celery root is stuffed with rice that has been seasoned with cinnamon, salt, pepper, allspice, pine nuts and sugar. (This type of rice is called "iç pilav".) Dried fruits like fig and apricot may be added to the rice mixture before the celery root is stuffed, wrapped and baked in the oven. Some variations may include quince. Sarma (food) Sarma (from Turkish word "sarmak", meaning "to wrap") is a dish of vine, cabbage, monk's rhubarb or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based