Baboli Shami

The dish belongs to Babol, in Mazandaran Province.
Ingredients
Fragrant herbs, 500 g
Mutton, 500 g
Split peas, 250 g
Onions, 2 nos
Eggs, 4 nos
Salt, pepper ,turmeric powder, and cinnamon, for seasoning
Directions
First, put meat, wedged onions, and a pinch of cinnamon and turmeric inside a pot. Pour in 2 glasses water and close the lid. Turn on the heat and allow to cook. Its water should be evaporated. Soak the split peas in water for 2 to 3 hours and allow water to go off.
Grind Cooked meat, split peas and chopped herbs. Add in salt,pepper and cinnamon and mix well in a mixing bowl. Crack in eggs one by one and knead finely with your palm.
Set a non-stick frying pan over the stove and pour in oil. Let it heat. Form pieces of the meat paste into a round flat shape. Make a small hole in the center. Put them inside the hot oil and wait till one side is fried and brown. Turn over and fry the other side as well. Once ready, transfer all the cutlets, or Shami, in a proper serving dish and garnish with lettuce, basil leaves and fresh vegetables. Serve with fresh Persian bread. Bon Appetit!
Cooking points,
Instead of cinnamon powder, you can apply brewed saffron.
Since the savory cuisine contains herbs, it grows dark. So you are recommended to fry on a low flame.
The Fragrant herbs applied include leek, fenugreek leaves, coriander, and garlic stem, plus indigenous herbs such as Zalang, Anarijeh, Sarsam and Oji. The amount of parsley, leek and garlic should be twice the amount of the other herbs. Sarsam and Oji are of mint family and Zalang and Anarijeh are the plants growing on the slopes of north mountains. In case you have no access, which is for sure the case, you can substitute with only parsley, mint,fenugreek, coriander and garlic leaves.
To shape the mixture into round forms , and prevent the cutlets from falling into pieces you are recommended to cover you palm with a little beaten egg . The number of eggs in the recipe depends on their size. The mixture should be consistent and sticky. To make a better consolidation you can use 1 cooked and ground potato or a little flour.