🇧🇦 Bosnian Cuisine

Sogan Dolma

Stuffed Onions

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Medium
Calories 344 kcal

Large onions hollowed and stuffed with a spiced beef and rice filling, braised in tomato sauce until meltingly tender.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Peel onions, cut off tops. Boil whole 10 min. Cool, push out inner layers leaving 2-3 outer layers as shells.
  2. 2 Chop removed onion insides finely. Mix with beef, rice, paprika, allspice, oil, salt, pepper.
  3. 3 Stuff each onion shell with filling, replace the onion top as a lid.
  4. 4 Arrange in a baking dish. Pour tomato passata and water around them.
  5. 5 Cover with foil. Bake at 180C for 1.5 hours until onions are very tender and filling is cooked.
  6. 6 Baste with sauce and serve.

Did You Know?

Sogan dolma is considered a test of patience in Bosnian cooking; carefully hollowing onions without breaking them requires practice.