Recipe: Delicious Lettuce Dolmades with egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono)

Lettuce Dolmades with egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono). You just read all about Al's experience making dolmades with egg-lemon sauce. When it comes to dolmades, my mother is a master in making them! Watching her fold the vine leaves with the stuffing is an experience.

They are traditional Greek Sunday lunch fare and very tasty. The distinctive lemon and egg sauce (avgolemono) is made here separately and has a bechamel-like consistency. These little babies are a super delicious one pot meal. You can have Lettuce Dolmades with egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono) using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lettuce Dolmades with egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono)

1. Prepare 3-4 of large lettuces.
2. You need 1 kg of minced veal.
3. It's 1 of onion.
4. Prepare 2 tablespoons of finely chopped dill.
5. You need 1 of large carrot grated.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of Carolina rice.
7. It's 1/4 cup of olive oil.
8. You need 1 of meat stock cube.
9. Prepare 2 of eggs.
10. It's 2 of lemons (juice).
11. It's of salt-pepper.

They taste even better the next day, and are great for lunch, dinner, and anytime in between! What a surprise when my appetizer arrived - it wasn't with a yogurt sauce but an egg-sauce called Avgolemono. WOW! was my reaction after my first bite. Since then, I have to eat my Dolmades with that sauce.

Lettuce Dolmades with egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono) instructions

1. Clean the lettuce and set aside the large leaves (not the hearts). Wash and scald them in salted boiling water..
2. Place them on a kitchen surface that you have put a clean kitchen towel to absorb the extra water..
3. Prepare the fillingPut the minced meat with the rice, both onion and carrot grated, the chopped dill, salt, pepper and olive oil. Mix well..
4. Then take a lettuce leaf (one at a time), press it on its center to break and lay a tablespoon of filling. Then wrap and place the dolmades into a saucepan. After finishing.
5. Allow it to boil for 40-45 minutes on low heat and prepare the egg-lemon sauce..

As you will be seeing in this video, making Greek Dolmades, also known as Stuffed Grape Leaves, is very easy but laborious. Season with some more salt and pour the egg-lemon mixture into the pot. Carefully shake the pot from side to side to distribute the egg-lemon sauce. Taste the seasoning and add more salt if necessary. The sauce will thicken as it sits.