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

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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. Take 2 onions
  3. Get 200 g yellow split peas, cooked
  4. Get 70 g rice, cooked
  5. Get 50 g mixed fresh herbs: chives, mint, tarragon, parsley, coriander and savory or marzeh. Finely chopped
  6. Make ready 5-6 baby potatoes
  7. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
  8. Take Ingredients for filling
  9. Take 1 cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball
  10. Get 1 prune for each meat ball
  11. Take 1/2 tsp barberries for each meat ball
  12. Get Some crushed walnuts
  13. Make ready 1 large onion, chopped and fried
  14. Take Ingredients for sauce
  15. Make ready 4 tbsp. tomato paste
  16. Make ready 1 large onion, finely chopped
  17. Take 1/2 tsp turmeric
  18. Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
  19. Make ready Oil

Last year one of my mom's cousins, Nilou, told me that she was going to send me a few of her mother's recipes for me to post on MPK. 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. Koofteh Tabrizi is a big meat ball with its juice.

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

The origin of the name for the dish is from the city of Tabriz in Azerbaijan province. The juice of the Tabrizi Koofteh is usually served in a separate dish with shredded Traditional bread Sangak or Lavash which is called (Terit). Kofte were first made in Imperial Persia from ground lamb and their name probably derives from the old Persian word koofteh. Meatballs with Tahini and Tomatoes Recipe. Where to Find Sephardic Food in NYC?

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