• Wash rice and yellow split peas together and place in a pot with 1 cup water and cook until tender (half cooked).
• Now drain any excess liquid.
• Prepare your dried herbs (how to prepare dried herbs).
• Place cooked rice yellow split peas in a big pot, add herbs, meat, fried onion, salt,  pepper, eggs, turmeric and mix well to combine.
• Now use this mixture to make koofteh berenge. 

You can make this mixture a few hours ahead of time.