Macedonian Sarma

Ingredients

 * Pickled cabbage leaves
 * 1 cup of rice
 * 2 Onions cut into small pieces
 * 500g Minced Meat ( or minced pork or 1/2 1/2)
 * Oil
 * Red pepper ,
 * Black Pepper,
 * Vegeta or beef powder if you wish
 * 2 chillies (1 red & 1 yellow chopped)
 * 1 or 2 sticks cellery
 * 1 carrot grated
 * salt
 * 2-3 cloves garlic
 * 3 tablespoon chopped parsley
 * 1 teaspoon chopped mint
 * 1 tablespoon flour

Directions

 * 1) Cut the Onion, chillies, cellery into small pieces and fry it in olive oil.
 * 2) Add the ground meat, red pepper, pepper, salt, spices parsley garlic mint oregano, add the rice also.
 * 3) Use whole cabbage leaf for very big sarma OR cut into quarters or smaller for small sarma. Then use the mixture to stuff the pickled cabbage leaves using a sall teaspoon into a pocket of the cabbage, then form a roll with your hands, and try to form a parcel. Don't try too hard to make perfect.
 * 4) Line them up in a pot, but first line up pickled cabbage leaves at the bottom of the pot so they don't burn. OR can line on a greased tray.
 * 5) For extra flavour, heat 1 tablespoon oil and fry 1 tablespoon flour, add 1 teaspoon paprika, take off heat and add 1 & 1/2 cup water and juice of 1 lemon juice. Add this liquid on top of the sarma, then cover with aluminium foil and bake covered on low oven, 150 deg for about an hour until rice cooked.
 * 6) Then, spill over some hot water and boil it on a silent fire if putting in a pot, and them put them in the oven to bake.
 * 7) Cover the pieces with pickled cabbage leaves in a pot.
 * 8) The whole has to be dry, not very moist.