Sarma.

The name of this dish comes from Turkish language, from the verb sarmak which means 'to wrap' or 'to roll'. It is made in many countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria and many others. Meat, rice and cabbage are the main ingredients.

Preparation: Minced meat, rice, eggs, onion, peper, salt and other spices are mixed well together. That mix is then rolled into large plant leaves, which may be cabbage (fresh or pickled), chard, sorrel, vine leaf (fresh or pickled). In every country there is a different recepie. But my mother puts it in sour cabbage. The combination is then boiled for several hours.

In Bosnia and Serbia we make sarma for Slava. The slava ("celebration"; Serbian Cyrillic: слава) is a Serbian Orthodox Christian tradition of the ritual glorification of one's family's patron saint. The family celebrates the Slava annually on the saint's feast day. I don't know have you heard about this, but I hope that this post told a little about our culture.

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