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Pickled Turnips

KABEES EL LIFT

        2 cups water
        1 cup vinegar
        2 tsp. salt
        1 beetroot
        Several garlic cloves
Big glass jars of these rose colored pickles decorate the front windows of many Arab restaurants in the Middle East. They are easily prepared and are very good with meza.



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

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