People need to focuse more on the taste of the recipe rather than it's nationality. I feel bad for Akis, he puts much effort to his videos and receives negative feedback for something irrelevant (in my personal opinion). It's all about love & passion for cooking
Very respectfully I tell you this. If I had a TH-cam channel I would love people to give me negative feedback, because that creates a discussion and therefore views!! So it's all beneficial for him,losers who try to shit on his parade,are actually doing him a favor 😉
Negative jealous trolls they are. So many people have to tear others down to build themselves up. Akis seems a very happy and talented person. Those naysayers need to get a life.
Absolutely agree with you! It is more about food, but not about nationality and so on. So, people calm down and enjoy. If you want to write smth hateful - go to another place.
Am I the only one that doesn't care who created these recipes first (dolma,moussaka,baklava etc) and just wants to enjoy every different version of these foods?
Please do not hate me. But if you knew the history between the Turks and the Greeks and just how terrible it is, you'd see both sides are just being badly informed and both need to put their differences aside. Also... I personally feel a food can only be traditional to one country. Otherwise, it'd just be considered food at that point without an exact origin. Part of eating food is the culture and origin oft the food and enjoying it. *shrug*
I would think a better reaction would be happiness at learning of the similarities we share across cultures and nations. I worked in Greece and tutored teenage Syrian refugees there, and when they learned about a Greek dish that was similar to one from their homeland, they got excited that they could make a connection. They didn't get angry that it was called a Greek dish in one place and Syrian in another. We should strive to be more like them. Also, lovely recipe :)
@@KitaKatt1988 Ok. Sorry if you felt I disrespected a group of people, but I think you missed the point. It wasn’t about Syrians or Greeks specifically. I could’ve used anybody as an example. It was about celebrating our similarities as humans
Why don’t we take advantage of this opportunity to build intimacy through cross-cultural similarities instead? Akis, your dolmas look amazingly delicious! I hope to see your place in Aghia Paraskevi on my next visit to Greece. Euxaristw from Turkey for the recipe!
Onur Yes I agree. And I am neither Greek nor Turk...Its the far right wing nationalists from both countries that seem to love cumming there vulgar xenofobic garbage throughout the internet. Peace and love.
Weird thing is that for big stuffed vegetables like Tomatoes, zucchinis, capsicums - Greeks say Gemista, which straight out means stuffed in Greek. Whereas Turks call the big stuffed vegetables Dolma, meaning stuffed in Turkish. But Turkish call the stuffed vine leaves Sarma. 🤷♂️
@@andrexadoh That's the summary. I'm not sure about the greek part of the story but for turkey, it's the go to tool for the ruling party to change the agenda of the media. That way they don't have to find an excuse for the failing economy.
@@cgtm1l3n13m Because "sar" literally means "roll", that's what he does right? And that "ma" in the end kinda name-ifies the verb, makes it a noun. I think in the end it makes more sense because sarma is the short form of "yaprak sarması" which can be translated as "leaf rolls" because they are technically rolled not stuffed. By the way you'd be surprised how commonly the yaprak sarması is being misspelled as dolma in daily life.
When those dolmas start dancing, like Zorba the Greek, they shake all of their stuffings out, so Puritan rigor ... no dancing ... LOL! The chef has a sense of humor.
There's a Greek Orthodox Church near me that has a bazaar every year the day before Thanksgiving and I always buy a ton of them for dinner the next day, well, last year, they ran out of them before I could get there! I was mortified as they're a family favorite! I then found this and made them, everyone loved it! I also love this recipe because my vegan mom can eat them! I'm definitely making them again this year! Thank you Akis!
@@Silahtar the weird part is; dolma is literally a turkish word (Dol: to be filled) or sarma (sar: to wrap) so the fact that they think that Byzantines used to make this recipe is funny. Because the dish’s name is turkish.
On every fucking video about Greek food there are Turks poping out saying the food is theirs. Ok first of all Turks were nomads, a huge majority of "their food" is not theirs. Turks didn't even know what fish was and they had minimal ingredients to make anything back to were they lived. They adopted every recipe from the Greeks living in "Anatolia" during the Byzantine era and changed every name during the Ottoman occupation. , Greek cuisine is one of the healthiest in the world (along with the Japanese) that's why people who follow the Greek Mediterranean diet live longer and are more healthy.
"Greek Food" Dolma'des', means = "filled" in Turkish hmmm interesting. And you say " They adopted every recipe from the Greeks living in "Anatolia" during the Byzantine era and changed every name during the Ottoman occupation" , yea they learnt ALL recipes from Greeks, cool story bro. Please spread your racist bullshit somewhere else and just enjoy the video, both folks have a great great cousine, during the time they learnt from each other, like Baklava made it to Greece, or Tzatziki made it to Turkey. If you wanna go back that much in time, at a point every single folk had learnt from an other folk, and NONE has its own recipes.
Semih Berk Okay okay calm down. I agree with you on every point. The statement that the turks adopted every single recipes from the Greeks was also for me too far fetched. But in my eyes it was not necessary to play the "racist card". You know what I mean ?
Thank you for taking the time to teach us a great recipe... I don’t care where it originated from. You present yourself with class and I understand you. Greeting’s fromCanada 🇨🇦
True. Mom lines potato slices underneath the dolmas, Idon't. She loves adding diluted tamarind on the pockets and a spoonful of sugar with no olive oil. Some folks just add citric acid and enjoy the aroma. 🤔 I'll go for 7-up soft drink next time. 😅 Why not??
Am I the only one who doesn’t really care where dolmades “originally” came from, as long as the risotto is made with the right rice to herb ratio?.. I just like my food to be tasty, that’s all
Grabbed You By The Pussy My great grandma is Turkish and I’m Arab and some Turkish. I know it’s a Turkish dish. But Greeks are Mediterranean so we all share some culture
If you want another amazing recipe you should try my stuffed grape leaves recipe it’s so good and easy !! Tell me what to think :) th-cam.com/video/M0RFptKQMPA/w-d-xo.html
All Turks are like "mimimi it's our food mimimi". Many many many years have passed and they complain over and over for the same thing. For God sake, it's all a combination of cultures. We're not in war times anymore to fight. I'm half Greek and half Brazilian, and here in Brazil we're a combination of cultures. Get over it!
Renata Dyntsikou Yeah go ahead and ignore all the from the Balkans complaining about the very same thing and focus on the Turks solely. I’m fine with people calling it a greek dish so long as the host is willing to give a bit of a background about its origin. That being said I agree with the rest of what you said, both the Greeks and the Turks need to stop whining so much about the past and calling each other names for the things that took place many decades and centuries ago.
This looks amazing! I don't know where this dish originated but we eat it in the Arab World as well, but with green broad beans and sometimes meat cooked with the rice and onions. I'm not gonna claim this dish as that of my own culture, I'm just here to say that the Greek and Arab versions both taste great :)
In Malta this dish was eaten too in more ancient times but 200 years of british colonial rule and Italian influence made Maltese forget the mediterainian diet amd we where left with only fish and chips and pizza and other junk food the Maltese like to eat much.
@@charlescarabott7692 Yeah. Because the thing is Malta was so close to Ottoman Empire and they always caught Turkish sailors and traders and took some culturel things from them. Just like how coffe get into European culture. As a Turkish I would be so happy if this food was still in Malta cuisine.
I was born in Cyprus, so we always used to eat dolmades with yogurt. I love watching your cooking videos, Akis. You make it so interesting, and it's clear you have fun cooking.
Greek word pita is original root etymology for Italian pizza and Turkish Pide alike (Greek plural form pittes), pita is like a slightly less specific borek category for the Greeks. Somehow, you just knew it to be true! High 5 😂
@@cgtm1l3n13m dude i know greek people you are most ultranationalist people in the world. You even call the Turkish delight as greek delight. This is just funny.
Erdem Özcan that’s a bit funny if ever Turkish delight is marketed as Greek delight. But, if any Turkish Delight has mastiha as an ingredient, which no doubt has a different name in Turkish, the Greeks were blessed with a beautiful kind of tree that doesn’t successfully produce a sap which is the ingredient anywhere else aside from the island of Chios. The adjacent Cesme region in Turkey coming remotely close for this ingredient production. The word in English masticate means to chew and swallow, this root comes from the raw mastiha sap that the ancient Greeks chewed and swallowed from the island and is also utilised as a chewing gum ingredient today. However, Turkish Delight named as Greek Delight might only be when it contains this ingredient, and, if marketed as Greek Delight it’s the beginning of abuse of both products. My experience tells me that Turkish are way more ultra nationalistic than Greeks, but, there are weird extremes of Greeks who give credit to many things as Turkish in Greek culture and a weird thing with some Turks doing the same about the Greeks.
@@cgtm1l3n13m I was in Athens six months ago. I bought a few bottles of mastic liquor. It really tasted good and I liked it a lot. I think it's the only one original thing that belongs to Greece. Turkish delight was just one example, such as baklava, doner, dolma, hacivat and karagöz, yogurt.
Erdem Özcan ah well, we live and learn, my experiences tell me some things you’re correct about others that you are not. If I’m meant to learn otherwise, I will. Turks have generation after generation things that the Greeks wouldn’t understand, including food, traditions and general culture. Greeks also have generation after generation things like that in a Greek way that Turkish wouldn’t understand, some of these things do have a same element between the 2 cultures though. There are the fringe end Turks that it’s almost like their ancestors were Greek that once converted to Islam and there’s some fringe end Greeks that it’s almost like some of their ancestors were Turkish. Glad you enjoyed the mastiha liquer. I enjoyed some things in Istanbul which were told by Turks to me as more originally Greek in the city, other things were enjoyed as truly Turkish things there. Also same when I was in Bodrum, good times they were anyway.
I’ve never cooked Greek cuisine before but I’ve watched about half of this channel today- going to be doing a big feast for my family with all these new recipes 😇😇 Thankyou!
Its a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Dish... just enjoy the video. In the Caribbean we all make Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) we all make it different but its a traditional staple in all of our cuisine. Hatefull ass people. Akis it looks amazing!!!!! Thank you
@@serkanmuratakturk3776 Bizim kendi usulumuzce yapılan incecik sarılan dolmalar harika oluyorlar. Kopyalayan tarifler kendini belli ediyorlar.. inceliği, zarifliği ve tüm lezzetli malzemeleri noksan oluyor. 🍓🥭🍒🍉🍐🍎🍒🥝🥝
I agree, Medea! I love tasting the different interpretations of similar traditional dishes. Greek Halva and Indian Sooji Halwa are very similar apart from the spice combinations, and baklava variations can be found all across the Balkan regions. We can't help it that our ancestors were all so good at cooking...
Well 'Halwa' as a word is Arabic, simply meaning 'sweet'. Turks & Persians replaced the 'w' with 'v' as that's how they pronounce the 'w' ... As to who created the recipe in the first place... who cares?! Those things will remain a mystery! lol
Sarmale in Romania. Very traditional if I might say.This is one of our traditional food. We never use coriander and mint,but parsley and dill depending of region. Nice one!
@@mhmtbl o well "gyros" is a Greek word! "Fyllo" as well, maybe all your pastries with fyllo are Greek!!!! Please... having a Turkish name means nothing, of course many recipes had Turkish names, it was the language of the rulers. Most recipes were influenced or stolen from the byzantines and other local people and renamed. And don't you forget that
Heba Hosni food is always missing something until we Egyptian put our spin on it u have to admit taste better after we get hold of it سلام ليكي يا هبة 😊
@@erdemozcan5435 It is a Greek food you didn't even have a cuisine before you conquered Greek Anatolia you were nomads. We have a cuisine of 3,000 years already. You even think baklava is turkish but it was Greek before and before that Assyrian. Anyway I will be civilized and say that many things are a mystery. Turks and Greeks lived in the same towns in different neighborhoods. Not hard for neighboring mamas to exchange recipes of how they feed their men and children.
Dear Akis!dolmades are also a very popular food in iran(we call them simply dolma) and the difference is we fill the vine leaves with rice,minced beef/lamb and split peas!but this one looks very tasty too,will definitely try it!thank you
Jeylan Deniz İran nüfusunun büyük bir bölümü de Türklerden oluşuyor. Orada da dolma demeleri normal yani 🙂 ha belki iç dolgusu biraz farklı. Onlarda iç dolgu biraz daha çok yeşillik ağırlıklı ve lepe denen bir tür baklagil de kullanıyorlar
we have our own vine leaves (Prague, CZ) and my recipe (from a Greek community) was not very detailed regarding rice preparation; last year I made delicious dolmades though; now I was looking for some "perfect tip" for rice, and I have found it here - thank you, Mr. Chef with a lovely display ;-)
Çok güzel yaptın, bu yemek Türkiye de 🇹🇷 çok yapılır çok sevilir, bu yemegin adı sarma sende tam Türk ler gibi yaptın, bizde yoğurt ile birlikte tüketiriz 👍🏻👍🏻🌼🌷🌼
You are the most personable and fun cook who I have ever seen before. I rate you one notch below Alton Brown and, seriously, that's saying a lot. I wish you were extremely famous because I could watch you all the time. You seem to really love what you are doing and it draws the viewer in -- that's what makes a great television personality. I am making dolmades right now (yes, it's nearly 6:00 a.m. and it's our dinner -- we eat super late) -- your recipe. I am only saddened by the fact my grape leaves were so tiny (I bought a jar of them) and they were never this small before. I have leftover rice that I am frying up to go with it.
Step1: Conquer lands with rich ancient cuisine. Step2: Naturally rename the dishes to your native language over the centuries. Step3: Call them "Turkish" even though they are mostly Persian/Greek/Levantine. Step4: Argue on the internet with strangers.
I love these grape leaves . My first time having them was last month in San Diego and I fell in love with them. I’m going to try to make them thanks :)
Now these are my favorite! I always convince my neighbors to give me some fresh leaves from their vines to share delicious dolmati! Thank you Aki for the traditional recipe so I can add to my collection. I usually never add spring onions or purple, just white and no coriander, but I will try it! Oh my God, I'm hungry!
Hi, how do you manage them after they've turned dark in color and wilted? Would they still be ok to roll or you'd be using them chopped in your recipes like spinach?
My Yia Yia made them for us all the time but quite differently prepared...She covered hers in a lemon creme sauce...I imagine many Greeks have many ways to make this delicious dinner!
My grandma used to make the best dolmades but she would make it really garlicky and vinegary and it was sooo delicious. There would also be some form of minced meat in the rice filling sometimes. Miss this dish so much, gonna make it this weekend!
This is NOT Greek it is Turkish! Anyone under Ottoman rule learnt this from Turks. We call this dolma or sarma. Dolma comes from the Turkish word dolmak or doldurmak which means to stuff or fill something like this dish is filled with rice. And sarmak which means to wrap or roll something. Im sick of people using our dishes and not explaining its Turkish origins. Cultural appropriation at its best.
Is your recipe a Greek recipe?? There is no meat or lamb in the filler. I have been to Greece and eaten in Greek Islands in Chicago and they have meat in them.
I make dolmadakia only around greek easter time, when the new leaves appear on the vine branches. I pick them, boil them to get the first green from them and then i prepare them. If, i use vine leaves from the super market, do i have to do something more before cooking them?
Just shut up and enjoy the recipe... this man works his ass off with these videos. This dish is made in Greece,Turkey,the Balkans and Arab speaking countries, in no particular order! It’s fucking delicious and that’s all that matters. For anyone who cares about the history they can do their own research. Please have several seats.
cc22ful birincisi bu zaten Türk yemeği. İkincisi Yunan yemeği ve ya başka her hangi bir ülkenin yemeklerini yapsan da eminim Türk ailen yine beğenir. Türkler nezaketsiz insanlar değildir çünkü 🙂
This actually looks way lighter than Egyptian recipes,but closer to my family recipe, I like the idea of adding mint and spring onions and incorporate their taste in the rice first. I will definitely try it. By the way you should've recommended eating the bed leaves, they have very vine-leaves-intense taste also absorb much of the olive oil and lemon, making them very rich.
In Kurdistan, we put sometimes chicken wings or lamb chops at the bottom of the pot. Another recommendation would be to add pomegranate seeds at the top of the pot - believe me, it tastes delicious!
We put lamb neck steaks at the bottom of the pot in Lebanon... We make them (called Waroh Enib) smaller than the ones in this video, and we pour lemon juice and olive oil mixture over ours, with some toum (garlic sauce) mixed in. We also stuff with rice and herbs, but we add some finely diced and deseeded tomatoes into the stuffing as well.
Dipping them in a yogurt sauce is something I never even thought of before,... I guess yogurt really does go with almost anything in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine...
Delicious. Only thing is you should not add lemon slices to the pot. It will bitter your grape leaves like it did to mine. I’ve been making these for a long time and fresh lemon juice is enough. Oh- and that’s toooooo much olive oil! Yes add enough so they are not dry-But not the whole bottle!! LOL
Love to see different versions of such well known dish....the flavs used are very much Greek and I personally love it. I love your personality and keep up the awesome job👍
I just can't believe this n i used to think one day our 2 nations will be friends at last WTH do people care so much to prove this is Greek n that is Turkish for God's sake grow up people lets enjoy each others food as we do with music n stop this stupid childish behaviour am Greek n i love Greek n Turkish food i love Greek n Turkish music, we lived together for 500 years we have similarities n are mixed in some ways grow up people
@@charlescarabott7692 maltes speak Arabic in Tunisian dilect because the long history Ander arab rules its nice to meet some one from Malta greeting to you from Jordan
@@khalednajada2514 greetings from Malta to you my friend. Yes Malta has long history with the North African Arab countries probably because they are closer to us then most european countries.
My mama passed away and I didn’t get the chance to learn how to make plakopites or moustokoulia. Can you please show us?? Limnian recipes are hard to find.
The grocery store that I work at has both a salad bar and an “olive and anti-pasta” bar. There’s dolmades on that bar, they’re delicious, and I wanted to find a recipe for them. I think this is the right one, looks like it has the right ratio between rice and other stuff. The Lebanese one looked like it had way too much parsley…
Thank you. I am an Norwegian and i often buy food from a foreign shop here to try new things. But i seldom know how to serve the food, so i use TH-cam to find out. Now i have a can of Dolmas(yes it is better to make it my self, but at least i get to try it this way) ;) On my way to buy some yoghurt now. :)
I've been waiting to make these! Today, I picked an armload of huge grape leaves from my garden along with some herbs and instead of onions, I'm using chives. It's happening!!!! Thank you for this recipe.
U r amazing. I usually make dolmathes with half lamb and beef. My father was born and raised in Cyprus and we have nailed our recipe for meat parcels packed with goodness. Well I have a great friend, who is vegan and loves the meatless dolmathes, (aka, dolmaodakias). I have been going crazy to find a great recipe for these, she always bought the canned ones. I tried ur recipe and she fell in love with them. Thank u for ur video.
That word comes from the Turkish word sarmak which means to wrap or roll up something. We call this dish sarma as well. You learnt this from being under the Ottoman rule.
People need to focuse more on the taste of the recipe rather than it's nationality. I feel bad for Akis, he puts much effort to his videos and receives negative feedback for something irrelevant (in my personal opinion). It's all about love & passion for cooking
Ευτυχια Τσ 💯 percent agree
Very respectfully I tell you this.
If I had a TH-cam channel I would love people to give me negative feedback, because that creates a discussion and therefore views!!
So it's all beneficial for him,losers who try to shit on his parade,are actually doing him a favor 😉
@Marie Antoinette oh, yes! This is so true!
Negative jealous trolls they are. So many people have to tear others down to build themselves up. Akis seems a very happy and talented person. Those naysayers need to get a life.
Absolutely agree with you! It is more about food, but not about nationality and so on. So, people calm down and enjoy. If you want to write smth hateful - go to another place.
Am I the only one that doesn't care who created these recipes first (dolma,moussaka,baklava etc) and just wants to enjoy every different version of these foods?
They have been arguing the origin of this dish forever. Even in my very mixed family. LOL. I don’t care where it comes from. I just want to eat it! 🤣
Irene Lygerou all you need to know is the continent. Otherwise you’re ignorant lol.
Yes
@Izzy Izzy Just different variations of THE SAME THING.....I'm always altering recipes depending on what's in my garden at the time.
Yes
Love that recipe, I've always had mine in tins and I thought they tasted good....
ps : What's funny about french yogurt ? haha
because he didn't say greek. he always says greek yogurt or greek olive oil
salut Alex :D nice to see your comment here!
if you replace the vine leaves with pickled cabbage leaves and a little thyme they'll be even more delicious
Alex French Guy Cooking It is funny I see your comments all over the place on food videos
French yogurt is funny...Greek yogurt ROCKS!
omg comment section... food can be traditional in more than one country
true....
well that sure escalated quickly lol
Please do not hate me. But if you knew the history between the Turks and the Greeks and just how terrible it is, you'd see both sides are just being badly informed and both need to put their differences aside. Also... I personally feel a food can only be traditional to one country. Otherwise, it'd just be considered food at that point without an exact origin. Part of eating food is the culture and origin oft the food and enjoying it. *shrug*
@@angeliki5135 Yes but in ancient times countries were very differently defined.
@@00SuperA That makes allot more sense as well.
I would think a better reaction would be happiness at learning of the similarities we share across cultures and nations. I worked in Greece and tutored teenage Syrian refugees there, and when they learned about a Greek dish that was similar to one from their homeland, they got excited that they could make a connection. They didn't get angry that it was called a Greek dish in one place and Syrian in another. We should strive to be more like them.
Also, lovely recipe :)
I was noticing how much the word _dolmades_ sounds like _tamales_
Somehow you just advocated and disrespected Syrians in one comment
😂😂😂😂
@@KitaKatt1988 Ok. Sorry if you felt I disrespected a group of people, but I think you missed the point. It wasn’t about Syrians or Greeks specifically. I could’ve used anybody as an example. It was about celebrating our similarities as humans
@@mickeyy2730 out of 133 people, they were the only one to find something offensive about a cool anecdote lol. Thank you for sharing!
Why don’t we take advantage of this opportunity to build intimacy through cross-cultural similarities instead?
Akis, your dolmas look amazingly delicious! I hope to see your place in Aghia Paraskevi on my next visit to Greece.
Euxaristw from Turkey for the recipe!
Onur Yes I agree. And I am neither Greek nor Turk...Its the far right wing nationalists from both countries that seem to love cumming there vulgar xenofobic garbage throughout the internet. Peace and love.
Weird thing is that for big stuffed vegetables like Tomatoes, zucchinis, capsicums - Greeks say Gemista, which straight out means stuffed in Greek. Whereas Turks call the big stuffed vegetables Dolma, meaning stuffed in Turkish. But Turkish call the stuffed vine leaves Sarma. 🤷♂️
@@andrexadoh That's the summary. I'm not sure about the greek part of the story but for turkey, it's the go to tool for the ruling party to change the agenda of the media. That way they don't have to find an excuse for the failing economy.
@@cgtm1l3n13m Because "sar" literally means "roll", that's what he does right? And that "ma" in the end kinda name-ifies the verb, makes it a noun. I think in the end it makes more sense because sarma is the short form of "yaprak sarması" which can be translated as "leaf rolls" because they are technically rolled not stuffed. By the way you'd be surprised how commonly the yaprak sarması is being misspelled as dolma in daily life.
Ew
"We don't want it to dancing! We only need to cooking it properly" i don't know why i found this so funny😂😂
When those dolmas start dancing, like Zorba the Greek, they shake all of their stuffings out, so Puritan rigor ... no dancing ... LOL! The chef has a sense of humor.
There's a Greek Orthodox Church near me that has a bazaar every year the day before Thanksgiving and I always buy a ton of them for dinner the next day, well, last year, they ran out of them before I could get there! I was mortified as they're a family favorite! I then found this and made them, everyone loved it! I also love this recipe because my vegan mom can eat them! I'm definitely making them again this year! Thank you Akis!
Looks delicious. It doesn't matter if it's Turkish or Greek. Love from Turkey 🇹🇷
Matter for me itss coming from Turkey
@@ottomanempire9715 2 ülke yillarca beraber yaşadı ikisi de birbirinden almiş olamaz mı?
@@Silahtar the weird part is; dolma is literally a turkish word (Dol: to be filled) or sarma (sar: to wrap) so the fact that they think that Byzantines used to make this recipe is funny. Because the dish’s name is turkish.
@@Silahtar Aga Adamlar Direk Kopyalamış Yanlız Ha Bu Arada Tarih Az Çok Biliyorsan Anadoluya Yunanlar Adım Atamadı Balkanlara Göçmen Olarak Dağıldılar
... τάδε έφη ο @@ottomanempire9715 ...
Turkish No way turks stolte evereything from armenians syrian and Greeks an i do mean e everything. Good food by The way
On every fucking video about Greek food there are Turks poping out saying the food is theirs. Ok first of all Turks were nomads, a huge majority of "their food" is not theirs. Turks didn't even know what fish was and they had minimal ingredients to make anything back to were they lived. They adopted every recipe from the Greeks living in "Anatolia" during the Byzantine era and changed every name during the Ottoman occupation.
, Greek cuisine is one of the healthiest in the world (along with the Japanese) that's why people who follow the Greek Mediterranean diet live longer and are more healthy.
well said mate
Exactly so!
To be fair, the name "dolma" has turkish origins.
"Greek Food" Dolma'des', means = "filled" in Turkish hmmm interesting. And you say " They adopted every recipe from the Greeks living in "Anatolia" during the Byzantine era and changed every name during the Ottoman occupation" , yea they learnt ALL recipes from Greeks, cool story bro. Please spread your racist bullshit somewhere else and just enjoy the video, both folks have a great great cousine, during the time they learnt from each other, like Baklava made it to Greece, or Tzatziki made it to Turkey. If you wanna go back that much in time, at a point every single folk had learnt from an other folk, and NONE has its own recipes.
Semih Berk Okay okay calm down. I agree with you on every point. The statement that the turks adopted every single recipes from the Greeks was also for me too far fetched. But in my eyes it was not necessary to play the "racist card". You know what I mean ?
Greeks Arabs Turks. We all eat great food with some tweaking of the recipe
Thank you for taking the time to teach us a great recipe... I don’t care where it originated from. You present yourself with class and I understand you. Greeting’s fromCanada 🇨🇦
We're all neighbors. 🤗
i love every type of dolma and every household has it own recipe
True.
Mom lines potato slices underneath the dolmas, Idon't. She loves adding diluted tamarind on the pockets and a spoonful of sugar with no olive oil. Some folks just add citric acid and enjoy the aroma. 🤔 I'll go for 7-up soft drink next time. 😅 Why not??
There are more Greek vs. Turkish comments than comments about Akis' handsomeness ;_;
Look on Wikipedia dolma is %100 Turkısh puhahajahaha
Dolma means "fill" turkish word
Lieer you are lier hahaha ohh pityy
Am I the only one who doesn’t really care where dolmades “originally” came from, as long as the risotto is made with the right rice to herb ratio?..
I just like my food to be tasty, that’s all
@@sametkocak3951 Wrong
@@DBJDJDBEKSK hahahahahahah
Im arab and love greek culture - love love this dish! good job!
Grabbed You By The Pussy My great grandma is Turkish and I’m Arab and some Turkish. I know it’s a Turkish dish. But Greeks are Mediterranean so we all share some culture
we make a different version of these in Iran too!
woah that's a lot of olive oil
as always ;)
Such is Greek cuisine
also they say it's not unhealthy as well. How can that amount of oil not be unhealthy? x(
Of course it's not healthy, but it's not like you eat that shit every day. Moderation and shit my man.
It's not so much healthy. But olive oil it's "more" healthy than other oils. And it's spread out to a lot of dolmades, so you will not eat all of it.
I don't care if it is Greek or Turkish food. It's just delicious!
I can't understand why Turks and Greeks are so triggered. Dolmades is a central Asian dish that neither Turks or Greeks
@@hamzakyads9631 Dolma means stuffed in Turkish. Turks from Central Asia. :))
@@AlexBurtonMusic yeah i know :)
If you want another amazing recipe you should try my stuffed grape leaves recipe it’s so good and easy !! Tell me what to think :) th-cam.com/video/M0RFptKQMPA/w-d-xo.html
All Turks are like "mimimi it's our food mimimi".
Many many many years have passed and they complain over and over for the same thing. For God sake, it's all a combination of cultures. We're not in war times anymore to fight.
I'm half Greek and half Brazilian, and here in Brazil we're a combination of cultures. Get over it!
Even the word "dolma" is Turkish so we find it very funny :)
Renata Dyntsikou Yeah go ahead and ignore all the from the Balkans complaining about the very same thing and focus on the Turks solely. I’m fine with people calling it a greek dish so long as the host is willing to give a bit of a background about its origin. That being said I agree with the rest of what you said, both the Greeks and the Turks need to stop whining so much about the past and calling each other names for the things that took place many decades and centuries ago.
not again we see the same muslim mentality here
This looks amazing!
I don't know where this dish originated but we eat it in the Arab World as well, but with green broad beans and sometimes meat cooked with the rice and onions.
I'm not gonna claim this dish as that of my own culture, I'm just here to say that the Greek and Arab versions both taste great :)
indeed!
In Malta this dish was eaten too in more ancient times but 200 years of british colonial rule and Italian influence made Maltese forget the mediterainian diet amd we where left with only fish and chips and pizza and other junk food the Maltese like to eat much.
@@charlescarabott7692 Yeah. Because the thing is Malta was so close to Ottoman Empire and they always caught Turkish sailors and traders and took some culturel things from them. Just like how coffe get into European culture. As a Turkish I would be so happy if this food was still in Malta cuisine.
@footballcoreano Ancient Greek food?? What "Dolma" means in Greek then. İt means nothing because even the word Dolma is Turkish. So shut up.
??? What lol
I think the reason he calls them Greek Dolmades is because this recipe is a lil different than Turkish Dolma, not because he thinks its Greek.
I was born in Cyprus, so we always used to eat dolmades with yogurt. I love watching your cooking videos, Akis. You make it so interesting, and it's clear you have fun cooking.
All Turks eat dolma with yogurt too.
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We are waiting for Greek pizza and Greek sushsi videos! Italians and japaneses stole these foods from Greeks! 😂😂😂😂
Greek word pita is original root etymology for Italian pizza and Turkish Pide alike (Greek plural form pittes), pita is like a slightly less specific borek category for the Greeks. Somehow, you just knew it to be true! High 5 😂
@@cgtm1l3n13m dude i know greek people you are most ultranationalist people in the world. You even call the Turkish delight as greek delight. This is just funny.
Erdem Özcan that’s a bit funny if ever Turkish delight is marketed as Greek delight.
But, if any Turkish Delight has mastiha as an ingredient, which no doubt has a different name in Turkish, the Greeks were blessed with a beautiful kind of tree that doesn’t successfully produce a sap which is the ingredient anywhere else aside from the island of Chios. The adjacent Cesme region in Turkey coming remotely close for this ingredient production. The word in English masticate means to chew and swallow, this root comes from the raw mastiha sap that the ancient Greeks chewed and swallowed from the island and is also utilised as a chewing gum ingredient today.
However, Turkish Delight named as Greek Delight might only be when it contains this ingredient, and, if marketed as Greek Delight it’s the beginning of abuse of both products.
My experience tells me that Turkish are way more ultra nationalistic than Greeks, but, there are weird extremes of Greeks who give credit to many things as Turkish in Greek culture and a weird thing with some Turks doing the same about the Greeks.
@@cgtm1l3n13m I was in Athens six months ago. I bought a few bottles of mastic liquor. It really tasted good and I liked it a lot. I think it's the only one original thing that belongs to Greece. Turkish delight was just one example, such as baklava, doner, dolma, hacivat and karagöz, yogurt.
Erdem Özcan ah well, we live and learn, my experiences tell me some things you’re correct about others that you are not. If I’m meant to learn otherwise, I will.
Turks have generation after generation things that the Greeks wouldn’t understand, including food, traditions and general culture. Greeks also have generation after generation things like that in a Greek way that Turkish wouldn’t understand, some of these things do have a same element between the 2 cultures though. There are the fringe end Turks that it’s almost like their ancestors were Greek that once converted to Islam and there’s some fringe end Greeks that it’s almost like some of their ancestors were Turkish.
Glad you enjoyed the mastiha liquer. I enjoyed some things in Istanbul which were told by Turks to me as more originally Greek in the city, other things were enjoyed as truly Turkish things there. Also same when I was in Bodrum, good times they were anyway.
Omg I laughed so hard at the French yogurt part hahahaha. Efkharisto for the recipe!
I’ve never cooked Greek cuisine before but I’ve watched about half of this channel today- going to be doing a big feast for my family with all these new recipes 😇😇 Thankyou!
this is turkish food greeks always steal from turks anyway
Then u will never cuz its not greek cuisine
Its a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Dish... just enjoy the video. In the Caribbean we all make Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) we all make it different but its a traditional staple in all of our cuisine. Hatefull ass people. Akis it looks amazing!!!!! Thank you
One of my all time favourite foods, absolutely love it. And it's popular throughout the Middle East. We call it Waraq Enab (literally: vine leaves)
Im greek and turkish so I will keep my mouth shut. 🤓 Lets just say its 'our' food.
My mother adds tomatoes and meat. But I will definitely try this version, and that's a lot of olive oil lol
you're the best Aki 👍🏻
Zeytinyağlı daha güzel bence ama
@@serkanmuratakturk3776
Bizim kendi usulumuzce yapılan incecik sarılan dolmalar harika oluyorlar. Kopyalayan tarifler kendini belli ediyorlar.. inceliği, zarifliği ve tüm lezzetli malzemeleri noksan oluyor. 🍓🥭🍒🍉🍐🍎🍒🥝🥝
"Traditional Greek dish" Turks Triggered :p
whole balcan triggered :D
levant too !!
lol the entire middle! But we make different versions of Dolma, so it's good to try all of them out.
I agree, Medea! I love tasting the different interpretations of similar traditional dishes. Greek Halva and Indian Sooji Halwa are very similar apart from the spice combinations, and baklava variations can be found all across the Balkan regions. We can't help it that our ancestors were all so good at cooking...
Well 'Halwa' as a word is Arabic, simply meaning 'sweet'. Turks & Persians replaced the 'w' with 'v' as that's how they pronounce the 'w' ... As to who created the recipe in the first place... who cares?! Those things will remain a mystery! lol
Sarmale in Romania. Very traditional if I might say.This is one of our traditional food. We never use coriander and mint,but parsley and dill depending of region. Nice one!
And lots of tomatoes or tomatoe paste.
Well each region has their one recipe. That's why we say that this is greek...
@@mhmtbl o well "gyros" is a Greek word! "Fyllo" as well, maybe all your pastries with fyllo are Greek!!!!
Please... having a Turkish name means nothing, of course many recipes had Turkish names, it was the language of the rulers. Most recipes were influenced or stolen from the byzantines and other local people and renamed. And don't you forget that
It's a famous recipe in Egypt :) I think we got it from the Greeks and added a touch
Heba Hosni ahhahaha dolma is a Turkish food and dolma is a Turkish word!
Erdem Özcan 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yunan Dolmadesi yoktur. Bu Türk "Dolma".
Heba Hosni food is always missing something until we Egyptian put our spin on it u have to admit taste better after we get hold of it سلام ليكي يا هبة 😊
@@erdemozcan5435 It is a Greek food you didn't even have a cuisine before you conquered Greek Anatolia you were nomads. We have a cuisine of 3,000 years already. You even think baklava is turkish but it was Greek before and before that Assyrian.
Anyway I will be civilized and say that many things are a mystery. Turks and Greeks lived in the same towns in different neighborhoods. Not hard for neighboring mamas to exchange recipes of how they feed their men and children.
This is the 'Dolmathákia jiailantzi' recipe. Traditionally pine kernels and Corinthian raisins are added.
Who cares . I am here for dolma and guy is beautiful. Thank you sweetheart for the this and keep cooking!
This is the name sarma of the dish and it is a Turkish dish:)
No it's a Greek Dish. Byzantine cuisine. Remember??? We learned you to eat and cook. Thank you
Dear Akis!dolmades are also a very popular food in iran(we call them simply dolma) and the difference is we fill the vine leaves with rice,minced beef/lamb and split peas!but this one looks very tasty too,will definitely try it!thank you
Dolma comes from the Turkish word dolmak which means to stuff or fill something.
I love these but I love them not with lemon sauce 😍 Greek or anything. I don’t like them cold really though
Jeylan Deniz İran nüfusunun büyük bir bölümü de Türklerden oluşuyor. Orada da dolma demeleri normal yani 🙂 ha belki iç dolgusu biraz farklı. Onlarda iç dolgu biraz daha çok yeşillik ağırlıklı ve lepe denen bir tür baklagil de kullanıyorlar
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful filling! It sounds delicious 😊
In Greek, dolma is singular, dolmades is the plural.
we have our own vine leaves (Prague, CZ) and my recipe (from a Greek community) was not very detailed regarding rice preparation; last year I made delicious dolmades though; now I was looking for some "perfect tip" for rice, and I have found it here - thank you, Mr. Chef with a lovely display ;-)
Çok güzel yaptın, bu yemek Türkiye de 🇹🇷 çok yapılır çok sevilir, bu yemegin adı sarma sende tam Türk ler gibi yaptın, bizde yoğurt ile birlikte tüketiriz 👍🏻👍🏻🌼🌷🌼
You are the most personable and fun cook who I have ever seen before. I rate you one notch below Alton Brown and, seriously, that's saying a lot. I wish you were extremely famous because I could watch you all the time. You seem to really love what you are doing and it draws the viewer in -- that's what makes a great television personality. I am making dolmades right now (yes, it's nearly 6:00 a.m. and it's our dinner -- we eat super late) -- your recipe. I am only saddened by the fact my grape leaves were so tiny (I bought a jar of them) and they were never this small before. I have leftover rice that I am frying up to go with it.
Your dolmades look wonderful! Thank you Akis :)
This chef is fantastic! Even my boys, 10 and 14 enjoy watching his clips. The recipes are very easy to follow and enjoyable to make!
Why do I like the Greek dolmades so much? Is it oil, or smell, or taste, or just love? Do I really need to respond to any of these things?🇬🇷🥂😁
I'm so happy I found this video, I was wondering what I should serve with my olive oil.
Brian Brannon 😂
Step1: Conquer lands with rich ancient cuisine.
Step2: Naturally rename the dishes to your native language over the centuries.
Step3: Call them "Turkish" even though they are mostly Persian/Greek/Levantine.
Step4: Argue on the internet with strangers.
I love these grape leaves . My first time having them was last month in San Diego and I fell in love with them. I’m going to try to make them thanks :)
Geia sou Aki! Any chance you could post an avgolemono recipe to go along with this??
in the near future
I love this recipe. Handsome chef make great dish, what else we want? 😁😘
Now these are my favorite! I always convince my neighbors to give me some fresh leaves from their vines to share delicious dolmati! Thank you Aki for the traditional recipe so I can add to my collection. I usually never add spring onions or purple, just white and no coriander, but I will try it! Oh my God, I'm hungry!
You must live in Egypt
NOt sure you put enough Olive oil in pal.
10/10 recipe
If there are leftovers, they are great eating them cold the next day!! 😃💖 I have some grape leaves in my freezer. Time to make Δρομάδες and γεμιστά!
Hi, how do you manage them after they've turned dark in color and wilted? Would they still be ok to roll or you'd be using them chopped in your recipes like spinach?
Wow, that's a lot of olive oil. Yummy, I'm in love with it.
My Yia Yia made them for us all the time but quite differently prepared...She covered hers in a lemon creme sauce...I imagine many Greeks have many ways to make this delicious dinner!
My grandma used to make the best dolmades but she would make it really garlicky and vinegary and it was sooo delicious. There would also be some form of minced meat in the rice filling sometimes. Miss this dish so much, gonna make it this weekend!
Are you turkish or greek?
dolma.. adi bile turkce.. yani bizim yemegimiz.. 💖🤣
Thanks so much for showing , it is my favourite food and now i know how to make it. You have made a wonderful video. Thank you
This is NOT Greek it is Turkish! Anyone under Ottoman rule learnt this from Turks. We call this dolma or sarma. Dolma comes from the Turkish word dolmak or doldurmak which means to stuff or fill something like this dish is filled with rice. And sarmak which means to wrap or roll something. Im sick of people using our dishes and not explaining its Turkish origins. Cultural appropriation at its best.
One of the most under rated finger foods
Is your recipe a Greek recipe?? There is no meat or lamb in the filler. I have been to Greece and eaten in Greek Islands in Chicago and they have meat in them.
More greek recipes plz
Greatings from Baku 💖💖💖 love love dolma with leaf and beaf coiandr rice dill mint 💋💋💋
I make dolmadakia only around greek easter time, when the new leaves appear on the vine branches. I pick them, boil them to get the first green from them and then i prepare them. If, i use vine leaves from the super market, do i have to do something more before cooking them?
rinse them very well
thank you chef !!!
Just shut up and enjoy the recipe... this man works his ass off with these videos. This dish is made in Greece,Turkey,the Balkans and Arab speaking countries, in no particular order! It’s fucking delicious and that’s all that matters. For anyone who cares about the history they can do their own research. Please have several seats.
Literally the most perfect food on the planet.
I am Kurdish but the word "Dolma" is turkish and means filled so....
Made this recently for my Turkish family and they all absolutely loved it! Didn’t tell them it was a Greek recipe though😬
cc22ful it is from several countries, Iraq, Lebanon ect..
@@lamiah5604 but is it the same recipe?
@@pmparda no
Egypt use more fat (don't like)
Syrian is more sweet sour
Turkish (many like it but i don't like)
iraqi (best thing on planet earth)
cc22ful birincisi bu zaten Türk yemeği. İkincisi Yunan yemeği ve ya başka her hangi bir ülkenin yemeklerini yapsan da eminim Türk ailen yine beğenir. Türkler nezaketsiz insanlar değildir çünkü 🙂
Greek and Turks both usually do it vegetarian, in Cyprus we add mince! I'm obviously bias but it's well worth trying with meat.
This actually looks way lighter than Egyptian recipes,but closer to my family recipe, I like the idea of adding mint and spring onions and incorporate their taste in the rice first.
I will definitely try it.
By the way you should've recommended eating the bed leaves, they have very vine-leaves-intense taste also absorb much of the olive oil and lemon, making them very rich.
good idea!
ahhh it’s always so heavy.. the amount of oil/ghee, the tomato paste.. it’s insane! but it’s the best when done this way
Why would you eat the bed of leaves that kept them from burning lol
Video number 4 of yours, great job ... looks absolutely delicious.🌷
In Kurdistan, we put sometimes chicken wings or lamb chops at the bottom of the pot. Another recommendation would be to add pomegranate seeds at the top of the pot - believe me, it tastes delicious!
great ideas both!!!
We put lamb neck steaks at the bottom of the pot in Lebanon... We make them (called Waroh Enib) smaller than the ones in this video, and we pour lemon juice and olive oil mixture over ours, with some toum (garlic sauce) mixed in. We also stuff with rice and herbs, but we add some finely diced and deseeded tomatoes into the stuffing as well.
Dipping them in a yogurt sauce is something I never even thought of before,... I guess yogurt really does go with almost anything in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine...
No... my uncles sister from Jordan adds the tomato... we don't add tomato in Lebanon...
Dilan Gravi
"Kurdistan"
Where exaclly? Cant find it on the map
Delicious. Only thing is you should not add lemon slices to the pot. It will bitter your grape leaves like it did to mine. I’ve been making these for a long time and fresh lemon juice is enough. Oh- and that’s toooooo much olive oil! Yes add enough so they are not dry-But not the whole bottle!! LOL
Akis please make greek sweet loukumades balls :D
lokum the turks call it and we arabs call sambousa ...sweet fried tops ...
DOLMA is. Turkish word.Therefore.And DOLMA is Turkish food
Love to see different versions of such well known dish....the flavs used are very much Greek and I personally love it. I love your personality and keep up the awesome job👍
I just can't believe this n i used to think one day our 2 nations will be friends at last WTH do people care so much to prove this is Greek n that is Turkish for God's sake grow up people lets enjoy each others food as we do with music n stop this stupid childish behaviour am Greek n i love Greek n Turkish food i love Greek n Turkish music, we lived together for 500 years we have similarities n are mixed in some ways grow up people
we called in Arabic (waraq enab
We call it "weraq ta l eneb" in Maltese
@@charlescarabott7692 maltes speak Arabic in Tunisian dilect because the long history Ander arab rules its nice to meet some one from Malta greeting to you from Jordan
@@khalednajada2514 greetings from Malta to you my friend. Yes Malta has long history with the North African Arab countries probably because they are closer to us then most european countries.
@@charlescarabott7692 yep that's right
COME ON MAN DOLMA TURK FOOD ;(
Oh man, I bet those are amazing.
OF COURSE THE OLIVE OIL! YOU CANNOT EVER COMPLETE A GREEK DISH WITHOUT OLIVE OIL!
love dipping this in tzatziki
wonderful ,, easy to follow your recipe ,, have a nice day , Tom
I am making this right now and it looks so delicious! Thanks Akis, you're the best!
My mama passed away and I didn’t get the chance to learn how to make plakopites or moustokoulia. Can you please show us?? Limnian recipes are hard to find.
The grocery store that I work at has both a salad bar and an “olive and anti-pasta” bar. There’s dolmades on that bar, they’re delicious, and I wanted to find a recipe for them. I think this is the right one, looks like it has the right ratio between rice and other stuff. The Lebanese one looked like it had way too much parsley…
Try this with pomegranate syrup .
Out of this world .
ps: 4 on a plate?
I eat 15 in one sitting.
In South Korea they use sesame leaves instead of Vine leaves. I feel glad seeing similar food in Greek food channel!
sesame leaves are so broad?
So they make it like a finger-food. It's quite small and cute, and also tasty
Thank you.
I am an Norwegian and i often buy food from a foreign shop here to try new things.
But i seldom know how to serve the food, so i use TH-cam to find out.
Now i have a can of Dolmas(yes it is better to make it my self, but at least i get to try it this way) ;)
On my way to buy some yoghurt now. :)
I fly to Greece tomorrow and I'm soooo excited to eat so many of these!!! 😃😃😃
HAUSEofHolly did you enjoy them lol
You can fly to turkey . because its not greek food
@@misogulkaya4256 you are so full of complexes.
This is ottoman food,you can see dolma in Bulgaria,Romania and Albanian
It is not Greek or Turk it's EGYPTIAN Traditional dish :P
I've been waiting to make these! Today, I picked an armload of huge grape leaves from my garden along with some herbs and instead of onions, I'm using chives. It's happening!!!! Thank you for this recipe.
The Ultimate Greek Finger Food😍😍
Persians have this too I am greece now and havent had dolma in years! I am so happy its also in Greek cuisine! Eating it now 😁
it is traditional food in Syria and Palastine and Jordon Lebanon and Turkey and they add meat to it
in Syria we have two types of stuffed grapes leafs: one tastes sour (amazing) the other has meat (good too). But one time I will try the Greek recipe.
U r amazing. I usually make dolmathes with half lamb and beef. My father was born and raised in Cyprus and we have nailed our recipe for meat parcels packed with goodness. Well I have a great friend, who is vegan and loves the meatless dolmathes, (aka, dolmaodakias). I have been going crazy to find a great recipe for these, she always bought the canned ones. I tried ur recipe and she fell in love with them. Thank u for ur video.
oh wow! thanks!! it is sooo nice when i get comments like these with stories in them! Enjoy!!!
All Balkan countries have literately the same dishes! ...almost :) Greetings from Bulgaria! Great channel!
The thing is we always have different versions. It is almost always different dishes, different versions.
in turkey too
Excuse me ...Greeks ARE NOT Balkin
@@Elizabeth-zq7ncGreece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavian countries , Albenia, Romenia and Türkiye are Balkan countries..
Different spices and herbs in different dishes but exact same food. That’s true
Handsome and an amazing cook😍😍😍
In Romania we call it sarmale and we stuff it with minced meat and rice :)
That word comes from the Turkish word sarmak which means to wrap or roll up something. We call this dish sarma as well. You learnt this from being under the Ottoman rule.
@@Aquarian55 yes, I guess you're right😊 since both Greece and south Romania were under Ottoman rule, we are bound to have things in common.
THEY ARE NOT GREEK! That's a balkan meal!!!