sarma: Yaprak sarma, Kayseri style, at a Kayseri restaurant in Ankara
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sarma

An Ottoman dish of grape, vine, or cabbage leaves rolled around minced meat, rice, or both. Called sarma in Turkish, the name also appears in Armenian and several Central and Eastern European languages.

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It is occasionally known in the English-speaking world by its Turkish name, sarma, which, as a dish of the Ottoman Empire, is also used in Armenian and some Central and Eastern European languages. Since the Ottoman Empire's dissolution, its popularity persists in Turkish, Romanian, Moldovan, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Kosovan, Albanian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Macedonian, Greek, Armenian, Uzbek, Persian, Iraqi, Levantine, Egyptian, Indian and Bengali cuisines.

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