Different Types of Bruised (or meatball)

Bruised (or meat ball) is One of our Iranian’s traditional foods. There are different types and different ways of cooking this dish and also we can use it in different ways. Bruised is considered as delicious and gourmet dishes. The main ingredient of the food is meat and it is better to use the meat of the sheep kidney. In the past time there was not meat grinder, instead of it, with a particular method the cleaver and board were used and the food that was prepared in this manner, was very tasty. Today, with the meat grinder the works have become very easy, and house wives can easily cook variety of dishes and provide family health. In variety meatballs, Tabriz meatball has a special place and is more popular. This bruised size is very large and a single number of it is placed in one container.

1- Croquette for 6-7people

Ingredients:

Meat of the sheep kidney .....................750 g
Large onion ………………………..…….. 1unit
Bit of rice ........................................... 1cup
Split peas……………………………….….. Half of a cup
Dry Mint, tarragon and savory ...........2 tablespoons of flat head
Pepper, turmeric, cinnamon and ginger ..................... 2 table spoons
Chickpea flour ………………………………….2 table spoons
Eggs ..............................1 unit
Salt ......................... as necessary
Water........................................ 2 to 3cups
How to prepare:
Wash the meat, and put it in a colander until the water absorbed, Then mince the food with meat grinder’s big window, And after adding some salt to theme once again mince it with the medium or small window. Coarsely oblique the onions and add its pulp to meat. Now add the washed rice and split peas, Eggs, Chickpea flour, herbs and spices to it and knead it very well. Then pick up some of it, make a form of a sphere or a small ball, it’s better to knead it as much as you can. Now put 2 to 3 cups of water with a pinch of salt and spices and put it on the stove and let it boil. After boiling, deduce the oven temperature and gradually and slowly pour the meatballs in the boiling water and let them cook and prepare slowly.

2-The meaty bruised

Ingredients:

Meat of the sheep kidney..................750 g
Large onion.................................1unit
Bit of rice.............................. 1cup
Split peas...................................Half cup
Dry Mint, tarragon and savory............2 table spoons with flat ground
Pepper, turmeric, cinnamon and ginger............ 2 teaspoons
Chickpea flour................................. 2 tablespoons
Eggs.............................. 1 unit
Large Barqany Plum..............200 g
Salt …………..as necessary
Water ………………… 2 to 3 cups
How to prepare:
The food is prepared like the previous meatball, with the difference that in each meatball, you should put some Barqany plum.

3- Tabriz bruised for 6-8 people

Ingredients:

Meat of the sheep kidney .................1 kg
Large onion ................................1unit
Bit of rice....................................... Half cup
Split peas ...................................Half cup
Dry Mint, tarragon and savory............2 table spoons with flat ground
Pepper, turmeric and cinnamon.... 2 table spoon with flat ground
Chickpea flour.................................2 tablespoons
Eggs.............................2 unit
Barqany Plum ....................... 200 g
Eggs..............................1(for every bruised)
Raw almonds and pistachio.............. Totally 50 grams
Salt………………..as necessary
Water ………….2 to 3 cups
How to prepare:
This kind of bruised is cooked like the rest of the meatballs, with the difference that put in each meatball, one boiled egg, along with a number of Brqany plum and some nuts. You can also make all the meat in to one meat ball and put all materials within it and mix them very well then put the bruised in to a net in order not to be separated, and put it into the hot water and wait till it cook and prepare completely. While eating divide it into small pieces and specify the contribution of each person.

4-Small Bruised for 5-6 people

Ingredients:

Meat of the sheep kidney ............ 500 g
Medium onion....................... 1unit
Garlic ........................... 1 clove
Chickpea flour............................. 1 tablespoon
Egg ........................1 unit
Cardamom, cinnamon, turmeric and ginger .......... 2 teaspoon
Mint and oregano................. 1 tablespoon
Salt…………as necessary
Water ………………….2 to 3cups
How to prepare:
First, without chopping the meat, wash and fold in a colander until the water absorbed. Then with the large windows of the grinder, grind it and add some salt to it and press it again with a tiny window of meat grinder. Then coarsely grate the onion, separate its water, and add the pulp of it to the meat, then add gram flour, mint, oregano, egg official, spices and salt and knead it nicely until it get necessary consistency . Now pour the water with a little spice and salt in a suitable container and put on the stove to boil. Then take some of the meat, in the form of a tiny bruised like the small size of a walnut, and put in to boiling water and wait until it is ready. The food is delicious. This dish can also eat along with a variety of rice.