Recipe: Eating on a Dime Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi)

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Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi). Among all the different types of "Koofteh" or "Kufteh" in Persian cuisine, Koofteh Tabrizi from Azerbaijan province and Tabriz (as its name suggests), is a very popular Koofteh like "Koofteh Sabzi" not only in Tabriz but all over Iran. Koofteh tabrizi is a meatball stuffed with peeled hard boiled eggs, dried fruits such as plum, berries and walnuts, served in savoury thick tomato broth. You should cook koofteh in very little tomato broth otherwise it will fall apart!
These "koofteh"'s are not your typical small meatballs!
They are made with rice and minced beef and made to a size of an average hand, plus they have a hard-boiled egg inside.
Koofteh Tabrizi is a super meatball stuffed with dried fruits and berries, also a variety of nuts.
You can cook Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi)
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Prepare 400 g of ground meat (half beef/ half lamb).
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You need 2 of onions.
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You need 200 g of yellow split peas, cooked.
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It’s 70 g of rice, cooked.
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You need 50 g of mixed fresh herbs: chives, mint, tarragon, parsley, coriander and savory or marzeh. Finely chopped.
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It’s 5-6 of baby potatoes.
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You need to taste of Salt and pepper.
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It’s of Ingredients for filling.
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It’s 1 of cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball.
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It’s 1 of prune for each meat ball.
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It’s 1/2 tsp of barberries for each meat ball.
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You need of Some crushed walnuts.
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It’s 1 of large onion, chopped and fried.
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Prepare of Ingredients for sauce.
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You need 4 tbsp. of tomato paste.
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It’s 1 of large onion, finely chopped.
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It’s 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
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Prepare to taste of Salt and pepper.
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Prepare of Oil.
There are some other interesting fillings for this very traditional Azeri dish that are worth mentioning.
One very common item is a peeled hard boiled egg that is placed inside the koofteh along with nuts and dried fruit.
Koofteh are hearty and flavorful Persian meatballs mixed with loads of aromatic herbs, split peas and rice that are then simmered in a turmeric tomato broth.
A while back my friend gifted me with a can of Sabzi koofteh. large can of the most aromatic dried herb blend that permeated the entire kitchen as soon as I snapped the top off.
Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) step by step
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First prepare the sauce: heat the oil in a saucepan, add chopped onion and satue for 5 minutes..
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Add pinch of salt / pepper, turmeric.
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And tomato paste..
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Stir for another 5 minutes. Set aside..
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Mix minced meat (beef and lamb) and ground 2-3 times by a meat grinder until paste like.Grind precooked rice and yellow split peas. Grate onions, squeeze out the juice. In a bowl with the meat mixture, add onion, rice, yellow split peas and herbs..
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Season with salt and pepper and mix well..
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Take a portion of the meat mixture (as big as a grapefruit) stuff it with one cooked and peeled egg, prune, barberries,.
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Walnuts and fried onion..
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Wrap and make a meat ball shape..
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Bring to boil, 1000 ml water.
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And gently slip the stuffed kofteh one by one and potatoes..
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Add prepared sauce as well. Let it simmer for 45 minutes..
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Once kofteh is ready, transfer it to a platter and serve it with fresh herbs, salad or pickled vegetables (torshi)..
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Ingredients.
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Aromatic herbs for meatballs.
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Ingredients for filling.
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Ingredients for sauce.
Finally, when your Koofteh Tabrizi is cooked completely and the meat in it doesn't smell raw, it's ready to serve.
Note: Yep, a koofteh is a Persian meatball and while I'm happy to say that I love said meatballs, my nose is still, simply a boring human nose.
Persian meatballs aren't your regular run-of-the-mill—though also pretty delicious in their own right—meatballs.
Koofteh means meatball and Rizeh is small in Farsi.
Rizeh Koofteh can very well be an everyday meal served with bread, but it is also a wonderful finger food for entertaining a hungry bunch over the weekend or any occasion.