Tabriz Foods

Maybe when we talk about Tabriz traditional food, we all remember Tabrizi kofte and don’t know the name of any other food. Now you should know that Tabriz has an attractive and colorful food menu.

Even describing the color and smell of these foods makes you hungry right now. From soups and types of Tabrizi stew to various appetizers, they are all found in Tabrizi traditional dish.
Anyone who has been to this city will not forget the taste of its local dishes. The traditional dish of Tabriz is prepared and cooked with enthusiasm. The aroma that rises from it makes everyone hungry. Nothing makes traveling more enjoyable than trying fresh traditional dish.
Here it is some of the most famous foods of this city.

Kofteh Tabrizi

The famous dish of Tabriz is Tabriz meatballs or Kofteh Tabrizi. It is the most original and oldest food of this city. The most delicious meatball among all meatballs that can be cooked. But the good taste is not easily obtained. Cooking this food is not so easy, and it has its own technique.

To cook the meatballs, you need minced meat, cobs and vegetables as well as plums, blackberries, walnuts and onions. In the past, meat was pounded in a mortar, but now, despite the abundance of minced meat, few people use the mortar. Minced meat, onions, aromatic vegetables, rice and pounded cobs are the basic ingredients of this unique dish.
In the heart of this dumpling, they put plums, walnuts, onion, barberry and usually a hard-boiled egg. They make a delicious sauce from water, saffron and tomato paste and put the meatballs in it. This meatball has a pure and unique taste on its own, but you can enjoy it with vegetables, yogurt and pickles.

Dolmeh

Another traditional dish of Tabriz that can be found in everyone’s home is Dolmeh or Dolma. You must also agree that trying Tabriz dolma from an authentic Tabrizi is completely different from the dolma you make at home.

It is true that Dolmeh was registered in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO under the name of Azerbaijan, but we can consider it among the traditional dishes of this city.

Dolmeh is a difficult dish that requires a lot of effort to cook, especially when wrapping the scallops, you must be careful and delicate. The ingredients are minced meat, rice and special vegetables and spices are used to cook Dolma.

Minced meat, hot onion, cod liver oil, rice and aromatic vegetables should be roasted. Leaves are boiled for one minute in water and salt. Each one is filled with a spoonful of rice sauce and the leaf is wrapped into a bite.

Khoreshte Havij

Khoreshte Havij or Carrot stew is one of those traditional dishes of Tabriz that may not suit every taste. As the name suggests, there are plenty of carrots in this stew. This makes this food sweet. If you are a fan of sweet taste, definitely try this stew. There is nothing special about cooking this dish.

First, you have to roast the carrot to the required amount. Then add the meat or chicken and the already soaked plums to it. To improve the taste of the food, you can add some saffron and cinnamon sticks to the stew. On the other hand, you can make your stew sweet or sour by increasing or decreasing the number of plums.

Ashe mast va Abghore

Ashe mast va Abghore is the yogurt Ash (Ash is a thick soup). Be sure to be surprised by the name of this soup but there is nothing strange among the Ashes of Tabriz. Yogurt soup, even though it may seem strange, it tastes is great.

To cook this soup like any other soup, you need beans. This food is also need meatballs with minced meat, onion and corn flour. You should cook lentils, beans, rice, potatoes and carrots in meat broth. Then add vegetables. Yogurt is added to the soup when it is served, and the result is an exciting and tasty soup.

It is interesting to know that this soup is cooked in different cities and in different ways. The origin of this soup goes back to Ardabil and Tabriz.

Koko Lobia Sabz

Green bean coco is a new yet delicious food that can be a light dinner or a corner of your colorful table at parties. In addition to the good taste and beautiful shape of this dish, it is prepared very quickly. It is the best choice for days when you don’t have time.

To cook this dish, you need to boil green beans along with carrots and potatoes. After cooking the ingredients, you add the egg to them. Now it’s time to flavor the cocoa according to your taste.
For seasoning, you can use barberry, hot onion, saffron, salt and turmeric. Now is the time to fry the coco.