sarmale: Yaprak sarma, Kayseri style, at a Kayseri restaurant in Ankara
sarmale: Yaprak sarma, Kayseri style, at a Kayseri restaurant in AnkaraE4024 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:E4024) — Own work via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYaprak_sarma%2C_Kayseri_style.jpg)CC BY-SA 4.0
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sarmale

Stuffed grape, vine, or cabbage leaves wrapped around minced meat, rice, or both. Known in Turkish as sarma, the dish is widespread across Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.

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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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