Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi)
Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi)

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Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something that I have loved my entire life.

Check Out our Selection & Order Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! To prepare the sauce for the pot, pour some water in it and add some of the spices, cinnamon, saffron, petal powders, Persian leek, savory, and wait until they are boiling and then, lower the heat. You need to soak the split peas from the night before.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi):
  1. Make ready 400 g ground meat (half beef/ half lamb)
  2. Get 2 onions
  3. Get 200 g yellow split peas, cooked
  4. Get 70 g rice, cooked
  5. Take 50 g mixed fresh herbs: chives, mint, tarragon, parsley, coriander and savory or marzeh. Finely chopped
  6. Take 5-6 baby potatoes
  7. Get to taste Salt and pepper
  8. Take Ingredients for filling
  9. Get 1 cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball
  10. Get 1 prune for each meat ball
  11. Make ready 1/2 tsp barberries for each meat ball
  12. Get Some crushed walnuts
  13. Take 1 large onion, chopped and fried
  14. Take Ingredients for sauce
  15. Make ready 4 tbsp. tomato paste
  16. Take 1 large onion, finely chopped
  17. Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric
  18. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
  19. Take Oil

One very common item is a peeled hard boiled egg that is placed inside the koofteh along with nuts and dried fruit. 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! This is what the Koofteh, meatball, looks like once it's opened.

Steps to make Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi):
  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).
  17. Ingredients
  18. Aromatic herbs for meatballs
  19. Ingredients for filling
  20. Ingredients for sauce

You should cook koofteh in very little tomato broth otherwise it will fall apart! This is what the Koofteh, meatball, looks like once it's opened. This is such a delicious meal and it's perfect on a cold day. The delicious smell of the Kofteh takes over the house as it cooks and flirts with your nose!!! It's definitely a good thing that my mom and I made this recipe together as it made it easier for me to photograph when she was handling raw meat.

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