Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup
Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, persian-style lentil meatball soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Dried limes, or black limes, provide a complex flavor to many Iranian dishes. They not only give the tang of a fresh lime, but also add a fermented, musky depth of flavor. In this lentil soup, the dried lime and sumac add brightness to match the fresh herbs.

Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook persian-style lentil meatball soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup:
  1. Make ready 300 ml Lentils
  2. Prepare 2 tbsp Uncooked white rice
  3. Prepare 300 grams Ground beef
  4. Take 1 Onion
  5. Get 2 Boiled eggs
  6. Make ready 8 Dried plums (or dried prunes)
  7. Make ready 1 Ripe tomato (or canned tomatoes)
  8. Take 3 Soup stock cube
  9. Make ready 1 tsp Turmeric
  10. Take 1 Salt and pepper
  11. Prepare 900 ml Water

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Instructions to make Persian-Style Lentil Meatball Soup:
  1. Boil the lentils and rice for about 30 minutes until soft. Thoroughly drain the water and mash the lentils.
  2. Grate half of the onion, and knead it with 270 g of the beef and 1 teaspoon of salt until even.
  3. Combine Steps 1 and 2 and knead well.
  4. Season the remaining 30 g of beef with salt and pepper and lightly knead. Roll into small balls and cook in a frying pan.
  5. Quarter the boiled eggs.
  6. Divide the mixture from Step 3 into 8 portions. Form into balls around the dried plums, boiled eggs, and meatballs from Step 4.
  7. Cut the remaining half of the onion into wedges and sauté in a pot. Add the turmeric and continue sautéing.
  8. Cut the tomato into wedges, add to Step 7, and continue sautéing. Add 900 ml of water and the soup stock cubes and simmer.
  9. Add the balls from Step 6 to Step 8 and simmer for about 20 minutes.

This tangy soup is low-fat, quick and easy to prepare! It is a copycat-of a-copycat recipe from the soup served at Reza's, a Persian restaurant in Chicago (so called because I have never been to Reza's I tried this recipe in hopes that it would be like the lentil soup at my favorite restaurant. Add lentils to a saucepan and cover with cold water. If you're wondering what else you can do with lentils, this post is for you. This is a simple dish to make and very yummy.

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