Originally Posted by
tsastor
Wow! In Swedish we call it kåldolmar - and they are made of cabbage, minced meat and rice. (No wine leaves in Sweden, of course, but the Swedish king may have brought the recipe with him when with his troops in Turkey). This left me very curious if the sarmales taste the same as kåldolmar!
These are also known in Finland as kaalikääryle and often eaten together with lingonberry jam.
And a "wow!" back
tsastor!
I really did not know they were common in Northern Europe. Interesting to read how the recipe might have arrived there. (I looked up a bit more, seems the Swedish king once fled to the town of Tighina/Bender in what is nowadays the breakaway Moldovan republic of Transnistria).
Given the big Romanian/Ottoman influences the region has, it is indeed a likely place to have picked up the dish!
Thanks for sharing! I learned something new today (I love all kinds of historic quirks!).