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

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Koofteh Tabrizi is a super meatball stuffed with dried fruits and berries, also a variety of nuts. 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.

Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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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).1. 1. Ingredients
  14. Aromatic herbs for meatballs
  15. Ingredients for filling
  16. Ingredients for sauce

Koofteh Berenji are Persian meatballs that are tender and mixed with an assortment of fresh herbs and rice, stuffed with raisins, and simmered in a simple tomato broth. Most people familiar with Persian food think of mountains of steaming basmati rice, crowned with saffron and served with massive skewers of kabob. 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.

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