To Prepare the Filling:
 
1 level dessert spoon salt
1 level dessert spoon sugar
1/2 bunch each of parsley, mint and dill.
25 grams currants
25 grams pine nuts
250 grams boiling water
250 grams olive oil
250 grams rice
750 grams finely chopped onion 
 
Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add the onions and cook to a golden color. Add the washed nuts and pinenuts. Stir constantly over a medium heat for about 30 minutes until the rice becomes golden in color. Add the salt, sugar, currants and mix. Add the boiling water and mix again. Cover and cook on a very low heat for 15 minutes. Add the dill, mint and parsley and stir. Place on a serving dish and let cool before using.

Stuffed Cabbage Lahana Dolmasi

1 kilo cabbage

To prepare the cabbage:
1/2 glass of salt
15 glasses of water
1 glass water
1/2 coffee spoon salt
1/2 coffee spoon sugar
2 coffee cups olive oil
  
To prepare the cabbage:

Cut out the cabbage heart with a knife. Place 15 glasses of water and 1/2 glass salt into a saucepan large enough to contain the cabbage. Put in the separated cabbage leaves turned upward. Cover and boil for 3 minutes. Lower the heat. Turn the cabbage over, cover and cook another minute. Turn the cabbage over again and remove the softest leaves from the bottom. Turn the cabbage over again and let cook 5 minutes.

Remove the cover. The leaves should have become supple without being fully cooked. If they are not soft enough, let them remain in the water another 3 or 4 minutes. Now place the cabbage leaves under running water. Take each leaf and squeeze it a little. Then gently remove the largest veins with a knife. Place the leave with the thickest veins on the bottom of a large saucepan.

Filling the leaves:

Place some filling in the center of the leaf and roll the leaf from left to right over the filling and finally roll like a cigarette. (Refer to the section on filling grape leaves).

Place the filled leaves in a saucepan into which the extra leaves were put. Add water, oil, salt, sugar. Cook on a low heat for 1 hour, until all the water is absorbed. Cool and serve.