In a bowl with ground beef, add grated onion. Season with salt- pepper, and also add turmeric and cinnamon. Mix all ingredients together well.

Give small ball shapes to the meat and fry them in a pan until meatballs are brown.

Then, add tomato paste to the meat balls and heat for 2 minutes and set aside.

In a separate pan, heat the oil and saute chopped bell peppers for 5 minutes. Add diced can tomato to the bell pepper and fry for 2-3 minutes, then pour fried bell pepper and tomatoes over the meat balls, gently stir.

Your sauce is ready.

Now, in a pot, bring to boil water, add some salt, 1 Tbsp oil and spaghetti.

Cook it for 10 minutes then drain the spaghetti using a colander.

Now pour 3 Tbsp oil in the pot, let it hot, then lay on sliced potatoes as you see in the image,

Then pour par cooked spaghetti top of the potatoes

And at the end pour meatballs over the spaghetti.

Cover the pot with a lid and let spaghetti cook for 20 minutes over medium to low heat.

Once spaghetti is cooked, you would serve spaghetti but there is surprise at the bottom of pot, yes it’s crispy fried potatoes that is called ‘ tah dig’ in Persian cuisine and it is speciality of Iranian cuisine.

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