Cabbage With Cherupayar Parippu
A home-style Kerala dish made with care and the kind of spice knowledge that comes from watching someone else cook it a hundred times. Each step matters, and the result is worth the effort.
Ingredientsfor 4 servings
- 300 g Cabbage — chopped
- 100 g Moong dal Cherupayar parippu
- 1 nos Onion — chopped
- 2 nos Green chillies — slit
- 1/2 Of Coconut — grated
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds (Jeerakam)
- 1/2 tsp Pepper corns — crushed
- 1 tbsp Refined oil
- 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder
- 1/4 tsp Coriander powder
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
- Salt, to taste
- Curry leaves, a few
Preparation
Step 1
Wash the dal nicely and put it in a pressure cooker. Add chopped cabbage, chopped onion and one cut green chilly.
Step 2
Add turmeric powder and required amount of water to cook the dal(1 cup should be sufficient). Stir everything together thoroughly and pressure cook till 2 whistles.
Step 3
Mix the cooked cabbage, dal and onion with a spatula. Add red chilly powder, coriander powder, required salt and mix thoroughly.
Step 4
Grind grated coconut with cumin seeds, crushed pepper corns and one green chilly to a fine paste.
Step 5
Add this paste to the cooked cabbage and Stir everything together thoroughly in low heat. Do not boil the curry. Remove from fire.
Step 6
Get a small kadai and heat oil. When the oil is hot, let the mustard seeds crackle. When it allow to crackles, add the curry leaves. Add this to the curry.
Step 7
The curry is not very spicy, even kids will like it.
Step 8
Serve this curry with rice as a simple side dish.
Tip
Fresh curry leaves make a genuine difference. Dried curry leaves are a poor substitute — if you cannot get fresh ones, increase the quantity and fry them longer.
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