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Meat Balls in Tomato Sauce

KAFTA 'QRASS BI SAALSIT EL BANADOURA

Make a sauce by diluting a tablespoon of tomato paste in 11/2 Cups water. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to boil. Drop fried kafta cakes into the boiling sauce and simmer for 40 minutes (or cook under pressure for 15 minutes). Serve these meat balls with mashed potatoes and a cooked green vegetable.


(From Food from the Arab World Marie Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge, Khayat's, Beirut 1959)

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