Stuffed mallow

Stuffed mallow (Kurdish: Melûkîyê tije kirî or Dolma ya melûkîyê; Arabic: خبازة محشية; Hebrew: עלי חלמית ממולאים, romanized: Aley Ḥalmith Meemou'laim; Turkish: Ebegümeci sarması)^[1] is a generic name for dishes made of mallow leaves, stuffed with meat (lamb) and rice, or, more rarely, rice only. Other names are Mallow Sarma or Mallow Dolma. It is mostly popular in Kurdistan (Kurdish populated regions) Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Palestine and the Balkans, where it may be served with yogurt.^[2][3]

Stuffed mallow

Region or state	Kurdistan, Anatolia, Balkan, Levant
Serving temperature	Hot

Name and Etymology

Mallow itself is called many names and the names differ between regions, in Arabic, it is sometimes known as Khubeza (Arabic: خبيزة), and so stuffed mallow can be referred to as stuffed khubeza.^[4][5][6][7]

Popularity

Stuffed mallow leaves are popular across West Asia and Eastern Europe. Stuffed Khobeza, filled with rice, is popular in the Levant, as well as other regions such as Greece,^[8] it is especially popular in the Gaza Strip due to the difficulty to access food, where it is used in dishes as an alternative to grape leaves, which would normally be stuffed and cooked.^[4][9][10]

Stuffed mallow is popular among Kurds and the Kurdish diaspora.^[11][7]

See also

• List of stuffed dishes
• Stuffed leaves
• Khubeza patties
• Cabbage roll
• Mulukhiyah
• Salvia hierosolymitana