Skip to main content

Cooking_Turkish Stuffed Bell Pepper and Zucchini, & Rolled Sesame leaves (Dolma & Salma)

Summer is a good season to enjoy fresh veggies. This month, we got fresh bell peppers and zucchinis from Kalona and fresh sesame leaves from our garden. These are perfect ingredient for cooking healthy and hearty dishes, Salma & Dolma. Let's make them!

What you need:
  • Two bell peppers
  • Two middle size zucchinis
  • 15 sesame leaves (or collard greens, grape leaves, or cabbage)
  • 1 cup of rice
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 Tablespoon of thyme
  • Black pepper
  • Salt
  • Red pepper flakes
  • Paprika powder


How to make:
1. Wash veggies. Cut zucchini into three equal parts and remove inside. But don't make a tunnel! It should look like zucchini cups.

I used melon baller, and it worked very well!

remove inside of bell peppers

fresh sesame
  
Veggie cups are ready!
2. Minced onion and tomato. And mixed all other ingredients. You can adjust the amount of salt and black pepper based on your preference.

rice stuffing is ready!
3. Stuff veggies using prepared rice-stuffing.

4. Place them in the pot and add water enough to cover the bottom half of veggies. Cover the pot with lids and cook until water boils.

5. Once water is boiling, decrease the heat to the medium low and cook for additional 30 minutes. At this time, slightly open the lid so that the steam goes out.

6. Let them cool and serve with yogurt. 

Ta-da! Best summer food, salma & dolma!

Our hearty dinner with desserts. 

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Developing latent constructs of dialogic interaction to examine the epistemic climate: Rasch modeling

Yejun Bae | Gavin W. Fulmer | Brian M. Hand School Science and Mathematics | DOI: 10.1111/ssm.12460   ABSTRACT This study investigates two latent constructs (Engagement and Value) of dialogic interaction to examine the epistemic climate. Since the new reform movement emphasizes creating generative learning environments, it is important to examine whether a classroom promotes students’ knowledge generation or limit students’ epistemicgrowth through rote memorization. At this point, it is inevitable to focus on dialogic interaction (one of the epistemic practices), because how students engage with and view dialogic interaction provides meaningful information about the epistemic climate. By employing Rasch modeling, this study tested a statistical validity of two latent constructs of dialogic interaction. The findings in this study highlight that the two latent constructs are theoretically and statistically valid and can be used to gauge the epistemic climate through students’ en...
Post a Comment
Read more

Publishing articles from Your Dissertation

For early-career researchers/faculty, a dissertation is the most promising source to increase the number of publications. But, when it comes to publishing peer-reviewed journal articles, whoever already experienced writing journal articles will definitely agree that publishing articles requires almost the same amount of effort as writing the dissertation.  Sine 2018, I have worked on publishing articles from my dissertation, and finally, by 2021, I got two papers published...See?! It takes almost four years! One of the advantages that I got was I already made my dissertation in a two-paper format. There are two types of dissertations..(or possibly several types); one is a traditional five-chapter format (Introduction-Literature Review-Method-Results-Discussion) and the other is a combined journal article format (Introduction-Paper 1-Paper 2-Paper 3...-Conclusion).   I chose a combined journal article format because my research interests were a general classroom climate wh...
Post a Comment
Read more

Easy Radish Kimchi

Wintertime is a good season to have juicy radish. I went to Super G mart in Greensboro and got a good radish. The process to make kimchi can be various depending on the family's secret recipes and special ingredients. I make it as much as simple but tasty! <Ingredients> Veggie ingredients Radish One onion One bunch of green onions One carrot Sauce ingredients Three Tablespoons of Flour Two Cups of Water One cup of red pepper powder One cup of red pepper flakes Half cup of Paprika powder (optional) 1/4 cup of salt One small apple (minced; can be substituted for sugar) Ten cloves of garlic - minced One cup of fish sauce 1. Cut radish into small cubes. 2. Put cut radish in the large bowl and sprinkle one tablespoon of sugar and three tablespoons of coarse salt. 3. Toss radish so that sugar and salt can be well mixed. 4. Set aside for 30 minutes. (toss regularly if you have time) 5. In a small saucepan, add two cups of water and three tablespoons of flour then stir. 6. In medium ...
Post a Comment
Read more