Kofteh Tabrizi (Persian giant meat balls)
Kofteh Tabrizi (Persian giant meat balls)

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Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Take a portion of the meat mixture (as big as a grapefruit) stuff it with one cooked and peeled egg, prune, barberries, walnuts and fried onion. Wrap and make a meat ball shape. 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 first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kofteh tabrizi (persian giant meat balls) using 19 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Kofteh Tabrizi (Persian giant meat balls):
  1. Prepare 400 g ground meat (half beef/ half lamb)
  2. Prepare 2 onions
  3. Take 200 g yellow split peas, cooked
  4. Prepare 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. Get to taste Salt and pepper
  8. Prepare Ingredients for filling
  9. Get 1 cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball
  10. Take 1 prune for each meat ball
  11. Make ready 1/2 tsp barberries for each meat ball
  12. Get Some crushed walnuts
  13. Prepare 1 large onion, chopped and fried
  14. Take Ingredients for sauce
  15. Get 4 tbsp. tomato paste
  16. Get 1 large onion, finely chopped
  17. Take 1/2 tsp turmeric
  18. Take to taste Salt and pepper
  19. Take Oil

You don't need to cook it before making the meatballs, and the cooking process happens in the pot. 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.

Instructions to make Kofteh Tabrizi (Persian giant meat balls):
  1. First prepare the sauce: heat the oil in a saucepan, add chopped onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add pinch of salt / pepper, turmeric and tomato paste. Stir for another 5 minutes. Set aside.
  2. Add pinch of salt / pepper, turmeric and tomato paste.
  3. Stir for another 5 minutes. Set aside.
  4. Grind meat (beef and lamb) 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.
  5. Season with salt and pepper and mix well.
  6. Take a portion of the meat mixture (as big as a grapefruit) stuff it with one cooked and peeled egg, prune, barberries, walnuts and fried onion.
  7. Wrap and make a meat ball shape.
  8. Bring to boil, 1000 ml water and gently slip the stuffed kofteh one by one and potatoes. Add prepared sauce as well. Let it simmer for 45 minutes.
  9. Add prepared sauce as well. Let it simmer for 45 minutes.
  10. Once kofteh is ready, transfer it to a platter and serve it with fresh herbs, salad or pickled vegetables (torshi).
  15. Ingredients
  16. Ingerdients

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. Take a portion of the meat mixture (as big as a grapefruit) stuff it with one cooked and peeled egg, prune, barberries, Walnuts and fried onion. Wrap and make a meat ball shape. Put some walnut, barberries or plums in the middle of the meatball.

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