Lebanese Pickle  / Arabic Pickle / Mukhalal
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Pickled Vegetables is an important spicy and sour accompaniment to mezze dishes. Lebanese Pickle is also used in wraps like Shawarma or Falafel Sandwiches. Quite easy to prepare the pickling solution for this.
Lebanese Pickle  / Arabic Pickle / Mukhalal
Ingredients:
- 1 large cucumber, seeds removed cut into thick sticks
- 1 large carrot, peeled, cut into thick sticks
- 1 small beet/ beetroot cut into thick sticks
- 2-3 green chillies
- Â 1 red chili
- 4-6 garlic cloves
- 150 ml ( 5 Fl oz) Â Red wine vinegar OR white distilled vinegar accordng to taste
- 300 ml (11 Fl oz ) boiled and cooled water or mineral water
- 1 Â tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp sugar
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Method:
- Place the cucumber sticks in a bowl of ice for 10 minutes.
- Boil your jars for making pickles or wash with boiled water.
- Dry completely and set aside.
- Add the cooled water and vinegar to a large cup/bowl.
- Â Add salt and Sugar and stir with a sterile spoon or chopstick.
- Place all your vegetable sticks into the jar along with garlic and chilies. Pack tightly.
- Â Pour in the pickling solution over the vegetables to cover completely.
- Cover tightly with lid  and store in a cool dark place  for 2 weeks. ( for best results)
- Each time you serve the pickles use a dry sterile spoon.
Lebanese Pickle  / Arabic Pickle / Mukhalal
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Loved the recipe. It’s just like the one that we get with the fried chicken here! So good! Thank you!
Maryam,
Thank you dear.
Thank you for sharing this recipe, my husband loves this pickle and I was searching how to make it. Gonna try to make shawarma also soon. 🙂
Thank you 🙂 So glad to hear it was useful. Enjoy making shawarma… it is my all time favorite!!
Helpful .. thank you
I made this a week ago and it is so perfect. Just like the ones I got with chicken in Saudi Arabia. Nostalgic.. thanks so much for the recipe Shana. You have a gift.
It keeps up to a month. Stays crunchier if refrigerated. Be sure to use pickling cucumbers.
Shana, do you keep the jar in room temperature for a week or immediately in the refrigerator
Hi Leena. I prefer to keep it in the refrigerator when the weather is warmer.
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