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

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice 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 get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi) using 19 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Koofteh tabrizi is a meatball stuffed with peeled hard boiled eggs, dried fruits such as plum, berries and walnuts, served in savoury thick tomato broth. You should cook koofteh in very little tomato broth otherwise it will fall apart! "Koofteh" in Farsi means meatball and "Tabrizi" means "of Tabriz", a city in north western part of Iran. These "koofteh"'s are not your typical small meatballs! They are made with rice and minced beef and made to a size of an average hand, plus they have a hard-boiled egg inside.

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).
  17. Ingredients
  18. Aromatic herbs for meatballs
  19. Ingredients for filling
  20. Ingredients for sauce

These "koofteh"'s are not your typical small meatballs! They are made with rice and minced beef and made to a size of an average hand, plus they have a hard-boiled egg inside. For those of you who regularly read my blog, Hungry Tiger is married to the infamous Neda! Today's post is Nosrat joon's version of Koofteh Sabzi, a large stuffed meatball from Tabriz. 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.

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