Sarma is one of the most delicious meals to try while being in Sarajevo. On your visit to Sarajevo be sure to try Sarma somewhere.

Sarma is a noun derived from the Turkish verb sarmak, which means "wrapping" or "rolling".

Minced meat (usually beef or veal), rice, onions, and various spices, including salt, pepper and various local herbs are mixed together and then rolled into large plant leaves, which may be cabbage (fresh or pickled), chard, sorrel, vine leaf (fresh or pickled) or broadleaf plantain leaves.

The combination is then boiled for several hours. As with dolma, sarma is combined with yoghurt or smetana when it contains minced meat (beef, meal, lamb) and is served hot.

Delicious Sarma

Sarma tastes better every time when reheated as leftover, because further heating allow cabbage rolls to soak additionally smokey tasty and fatty concoction from the pot and thus sarma becomes more savory.