Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, persian meatball (kofteh tabrizi). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Persian meatballs like Koofteh Tabrizi also contain a lot of rice in them, which creates a unique taste and texture in them. You should soak the rice in cold water and salt before using it in the Koofteh Tabrizi mixture. You don't need to cook it before making the meatballs, and the cooking process happens in the pot.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Make ready 400 g ground meat (half beef/ half lamb)
2. Prepare 2 onions
3. Make ready 200 g yellow split peas, cooked
4. Take 70 g rice, cooked
5. Make ready 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. Prepare Ingredients for filling
9. Make ready 1 cooked and peeled egg for each meat ball
10. Prepare 1 prune for each meat ball
11. Make ready 1/2 tsp barberries for each meat ball
12. Make ready Some crushed walnuts
13. Prepare 1 large onion, chopped and fried
14. Make ready Ingredients for sauce
15. Prepare 4 tbsp. tomato paste
16. Take 1 large onion, finely chopped
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric
18. Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
19. Prepare Oil

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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

Today I'm sharing a delicious recipe for Persian Meatballs (Koofteh Rizeh, or Kufteh Rizeh in Farsi, and Riza Kufta in Azeri). Koofteh means meatball and Rizeh is small in Farsi. Rizeh Koofteh can very well be an everyday meal served with bread, but it is also a wonderful finger food for entertaining a hungry bunch over the weekend or any occasion. Koofteh Berenji ~ Persian Meatballs with Rice. Some call them Koftah, others call them Keftah, but we, Persians, call them Koofteh!

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