Cooking video preparing Malfuf Mahshi, Sarmale or cabbage leaves with meat and rice. It is the famous Arabic dish also called delicious wrapped children and easy to make.

The malfuf mahshi, a rich recipe of Arab / Egyptian origin for cabbage leaves stuffed with meat. The filling carries the soul of baharat (بهارات). Which is a mixture of spices used in Arab cuisine, in the Mediterranean Levante, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel or Turkey and depending on the areas it has less or more spices, there are mixtures that include six or seven spices and others that incorporate up to ten, so the Turkish is not the same as that of the Gulf countries.
Etymologically Malfuf is a word that comes from the verb لف (laf) which means to wrap, hence لفة (laffah) which is package or roll, and finally الملفوف (malfuf) which comes to be something like "wrapped (rolled) cabbage" . The word mahshi (المحشي) is an adjective that means stuffed, so both words make up 'stuffed roll' and it belongs to the family of dolmas, which are the famous preparations of stuffed grape leaves known worldwide.

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