Kibbe Hammoud

Description
This is a typical Iraqi dish not found in any other Arab country. The Kibbe are made with rice and meat cooked in a sauce of tomato garlic and lemon. It is eaten in a soup plate with the sauce as a soup.

Ingredients

 * 1½ lb. of minced lamb with fat
 * 6 medium chopped onions
 * 1 lb. lean beef with no fat, minced very fine
 * 1 lb. washed and soaked rice
 * a pinch of saffron in a few drops of rose water in 2 tablespoons of hot water
 * salt and mixed spice

Directions
2. Grind the soaked rice to powder. 3. Add the mince beef and salt, mix and put twice in food processor. 4. Fill the beef mixture with the lamb and onions mixture, make a torpedo shape with moist hands. 5. If not using it the same day, freeze them.
 * 1) Mix chopped onions with minced lamb, in a food processor, then add spices, salt, and saffron with rose water. Keep aside as the filling.