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

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Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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, The Complex Persian Meatball Koofteh Tabrizi is one of the most difficult, yet delicious foods of Persian Cuisine. The preparation takes time, the stuffings vary, and you need to practice the professional skill of making huge meatballs. Koofteh Tabrizi is a super meatball stuffed with dried fruits and berries, also a variety of nuts.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

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 means meatball and Rizeh is small in Farsi.

Instructions 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

They are about the size of a baseball and they contain a ton of wonderfully tasty. 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. The meatballs can be made ahead of time and warmed up. 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.

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