Travelling to Tabriz with the chance of Meatball

Koofteh Tabrizi is a big meatball with its juice. The origin of the name for the dish is from the city of Tabriz in Azerbaijan province. Tabriz Koofteh or Kufteh Tabrizi means meatball of Tabriz.

Koofteh Tabrizi is a big meatball with its juice. The origin of the name for the dish is from the city of Tabriz in Azerbaijan province. Tabriz Koofteh or Kufteh Tabrizi means meatball of Tabriz. The juice of the Tabrizi Koofteh is usually served in a separate dish with shredded Traditional bread Sangak or Lavash which is called (Territ).

Mixing the cooked Ground meat (mostly beef), boiled rice, boiled vegetables like leeks, yellow split peas, parsley, mint, onion, Berberis (Zereshk) adding Persian spices to the dough and Make a ground ball of it, and putting boiled egg and fried onion, walnut, dried apricot in the core of the ball (Koofteh) and put it carefully into the sauce made by boiling saute onion in tomato paste with chopped aromatic vegetables, till they cook well together and ready for serving.

• Best time to eat

As you read, Koofteh Tabrizi is a high-calorie dish. So it's better to have this delicious food for lunch, especially on a cold day.