Kofteh Tabrizi (Persian giant meat balls)

Source : 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 S...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : July 16, 2026

Step:

  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.

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  2. Add pinch of salt / pepper, turmeric and tomato paste.

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  3. Stir for another 5 minutes. Set aside.

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  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.

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  5. Season with salt and pepper and mix well.

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  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.

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  7. Wrap and make a meat ball shape.

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  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.

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  9. Add prepared sauce as well. Let it simmer for 45 minutes.

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  10. Once kofteh is ready, transfer it to a platter and serve it with fresh herbs, salad or pickled vegetables (torshi).

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  15. Ingredients

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  16. Ingerdients

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Ingredients

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

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