Anaa Heda's Kharshouf Mahshi (Stuffed Artichoke) 
This was my grandmother’s recipe, one of my mom's favorites. Anaa was one of the best cooks in the family!
Serves 4
*4 large cleaned fresh artichokes, may use frozen
1/2 cup rice
1 onion finely chopped
9 garlic cloves (6) minced reserve 3
Salt and pepper
1/4 lb ground beef
1/2 bunch dill finely chopped
2 tbsp Italian parsley finely chopped
2 tbsp tomato sauce
Juice of 2 1/2 lemons +for cleaning process
1/2 cup olive oil
Mix rice, beef, onion mixture, dill, parsley, tomato sauce and lemon juice. Mix ingredients well.
In a bowl add water, salt and lemon juice, use this bowl to place your *cleaned artichoke while you are cleaning the remaining (reserve the stalks).
Stuff meat mixture tightly into the artichoke heart and wrap each artichoke separately in wax paper.
In a pot (pot should hold artichokes snugly ) add the reserved sliced/peeled stalks, 3 gloves of garlic, olive oil, hot salted water (fill just to cover) and 1/2 a lemon, juice and all.
Invert a plate over the pot, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer for about 90 minutes. Add water as needed.
Note, this recipe can easily be doubled, tripled etc....normally my grandma would have cleaned/cooked a boat load of these! Additionally, you can certainly use frozen artichoke hearts but, this was Anaa's recipe and I wanted
to present it as she used to prepare it.
*for cleaning the artichoke please see entry under "how to"!
