Chard Dolmas with Meat

CHARD DOLMAS WITH MEAT

One kilo of chard leaves are washed, two glasses of water and two heaped teaspoonful of salt is put into a saucepan where the leaves are boiled for a few minutes. 150 grammes of rice is washed, one onion and a few stalks of parsley are finely chopped. Rice, onion, parsley, tomato paste, ground meat, salt, black pepper, mint, water and fat are mixed. One spoonful of this mixture is put on the chard leaf. Both sides of leave are turned inward and rolled afterward. A few leaves are put into a flat-bottomed saucepan and dolmas are placed in them. With the addition of water, the mixture is cooked around 50 minutes on low fire.