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What to eat with dolmas depends on the filling. Rice dolmas are served cold with garlic yogurt, and meat ones warm with a sauce. These 33 ideas cover sauces, dips, cheese, salads, larger plates, sweets and drinks.
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What to eat dolma with
Dolma names a whole family of dishes, all stuffed. This list is for stuffed vine leaves, which Greece calls dolmades. Those made with olive oil and a rice filling are usually served cold with a garlic and yogurt sauce. Those with a meat filling are served warm, often with tahini or with avgolemono, a sauce of egg and lemon. Sauces that are sour and sweet, with pomegranate syrup in them, go with them too.
The rest of the mezze table
Stuffed leaves are a mezze, one of the small dishes served as appetizers in the eastern Mediterranean. A mezze can be part of a longer meal or a meal in itself. Pick one dip, one salad and one larger plate.
Questions and answers
What do you eat dolmas with?
Garlic yogurt sauce or tzatziki, and a squeeze of lemon. On a mezze table they sit beside feta, olives, hummus and warm pita, and a village salad makes it a light meal.
Are dolmas served hot or cold?
Either, or at room temperature. The meatless kind is served cold or at room temperature, and the kind with a meat filling warm.
What goes with dolmas for dinner?
Add larger plates: bulgur and meat balls, stuffed peppers and zucchini, a flatbread with spiced lamb, or stuffed mussels. A village salad and a bowl of dip fill out the table.
What do you drink with dolmas?
Without alcohol: ayran, the cold drink of yogurt, water and salt, with the meal, and Greek mountain tea afterwards.