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

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 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. Prepare ground meat (half beef/ half lamb)
  2. Take onions
  3. Make ready yellow split peas, cooked
  4. Prepare rice, cooked
  5. Take mixed fresh herbs: chives, mint, tarragon, parsley, coriander and savory or marzeh. Finely chopped
  6. Get baby potatoes
  7. Get Salt and pepper
  8. Make ready Ingredients for filling
  9. Get cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball
  10. Take prune for each meat ball
  11. Make ready barberries for each meat ball
  12. Get Some crushed walnuts
  13. Get large onion, chopped and fried
  14. Take Ingredients for sauce
  15. Get tomato paste
  16. Prepare large onion, finely chopped
  17. Prepare turmeric
  18. Prepare Salt and pepper
  19. Make ready Oil

Bring to a boil and place the meatball into the boiling water. Half way through the cooking process gently and carefully flip the meatball. Once ready take the meatball out and place it in a deep serving bowl. Finally, when your Koofteh Tabrizi is cooked completely and the meat in it doesn't smell raw, it's ready to serve.

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

Once ready take the meatball out and place it in a deep serving bowl. 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.

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