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

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Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Persian meatball (Kofteh Tabrizi) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this particular 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 cook it.

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

Koofteh Tabrizi is a traditional Persian meatball served during the Persian New Year, especially in chef Hoss Zare's family. Meatballs with Tahini and Tomatoes Recipe. Where to Find Sephardic Food in NYC? Sign up for our Nosher recipe newsletter!

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

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 divine Persian dish, in the form of super meatballs which are stuffed with berries. This tasty Azari food is originated in Tabriz, but you can find it among the top dishes on the menu of most Iranian restaurants!

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