Recipe: To Try At Home 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. Because of this, you might find different recipes for this particular meatball, although they the. Persian meatballs like Koofteh Tabrizi also contain a lot of rice in them, which creates a unique taste and texture in them.

Koofteh Tabrizi is one of the most famous and delicious foods in tabriz, the most populated city in northwestern Iran.

Nowadays koofteh (Persian Meatballs) is cooked in almost all Iranian cities and you can see different recipes for the preparation of koofteh tabrizi.

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You can have Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi)

1. It’s of ground meat (half beef/ half lamb).

2. It’s of onions.

3. Prepare of yellow split peas, cooked.

4. You need of rice, cooked.

5. Prepare of mixed fresh herbs: chives, mint, tarragon, parsley, coriander and savory or marzeh. Finely chopped.

6. You need of baby potatoes.

7. Prepare of Salt and pepper.

8. You need of Ingredients for filling.

9. Prepare of cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball.

10. It’s of prune for each meat ball.

11. You need of barberries for each meat ball.

12. You need of Some crushed walnuts.

13. Prepare of large onion, chopped and fried.

14. Prepare of Ingredients for sauce.

15. It’s of tomato paste.

16. It’s of large onion, finely chopped.

17. You need of turmeric.

18. It’s of Salt and pepper.

19. You need of Oil.

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Cover over the hollow so the filling is entirely surrounded by the meat mixture.

Spray baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.

Open package of onion soup mix and scatter across baking dish.

Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) instructions

1. First prepare the sauce: heat the oil in a saucepan, add chopped onion and satue for 5 minutes..

2. Add pinch of salt / pepper, turmeric.

3. And tomato paste..

4. Stir for another 5 minutes. Set aside..

5. 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..

6. Season with salt and pepper and mix well..

7. Take a portion of the meat mixture (as big as a grapefruit) stuff it with one cooked and peeled egg, prune, barberries,.

8. Walnuts and fried onion..

9. Wrap and make a meat ball shape..

10. Bring to boil, 1000 ml water.

11. And gently slip the stuffed kofteh one by one and potatoes..

12. Add prepared sauce as well. Let it simmer for 45 minutes..

13. Once kofteh is ready, transfer it to a platter and serve it with fresh herbs, salad or pickled vegetables (torshi)..

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17. Ingredients.

18. Aromatic herbs for meatballs.

19. Ingredients for filling.

20. 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.

They are about the size of a baseball and they contain a ton of wonderfully tasty.

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.