{"id":22637,"date":"2016-10-22T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=22637"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:25:04","slug":"recipe-mosul-iraq-making-dolma-away-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/blog\/recipe-mosul-iraq-making-dolma-away-home","title":{"rendered":"Recipe from Mosul, Iraq: Making Dolma away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not only does emergency food aid help keep people alive and nourished in times of crisis, a favorite recipe can also give them a sense of normalcy during times of trauma and change. <\/em><\/p>\n

Find out how innovative projects through the World Food Programme are empowering people like Saeeda — who was displaced from Mosul, Iraq, two years ago — to cook a favorite recipe from home. <\/em><\/p>\n

And try making her <\/em>dolma recipe yourself!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saeeda Nouri, 45, is one of tens of thousands of Iraq’s Christians who fled religious violence in Mosul, Iraq, in June 2014. She now lives with her husband and youngest son in Ashti Camp for displaced Iraqi families<\/a> in Erbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

The World Food Programme<\/a>’s Marwa Awad visits Saeeda to hear her story and learn about one of Iraq’s most famous dishes.<\/p>\n

When it became apparent that her neighborhood would fall into the hands of militants, Saeeda and her family left everything behind to seek safety.<\/p>\n

Saeeda is surprisingly cheerful as she tells the story of the family’s harrowing journey through the night to escape Mosul. Not knowing whether she would see her husband and son again as they were in separate cars, she spent the entire journey praying they would all make it. Her optimism for the future keeps her going, despite the fact she may have no home to return to.<\/p>\n

Saeeda has turned the caravan into a replica of their home back in Mosul. Plastered on one of the walls is a large poster of the Virgin Mary, baby Jesus, and a white dove flying nearby. Under one of the caravan’s windows stands a bookcase with the few books Yaqoub managed to rescue from their home before it was destroyed.<\/p>\n

In the back of the caravan is a kitchen, full of spices and kitchenware neatly organized to make space for a small oven, which the enterprising mother uses to bake bread. She recently bought a small silver fridge to remind her of home.<\/p>\n

“I had a large silver fridge in my house. It was brand new and I barely had time to use it before we fled. I bought this small one. … It reminds me of home,” she says.<\/p>\n

Always looking to help others, Saeeda, whose name means happy<\/em> in Arabic, shares her little fridge with the neighbors, who use it to store leftover food.<\/p>\n

This recipe for dolma<\/em> is one of Saaeda’s favorite recipes from home.<\/p>\n

Ingredients: What you’ll need<\/h2>\n