Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can … ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.” ~ Jane Grigson
A vegetable that I quite like, but turns my house into a whinery, whenever I make it.
Do we need to eat it again… Really? Isn’t there any other vegetable ?
It has no taste. etc etc. Get it… whine whine whine
Mercifully looking the glamorous Kose* curry photos I took, my daughter actually said that it looked so good that, maybe she doesn’t mind eating it any more !
One small step for (wo)man… I’ll take it
The TamBrahm Kose* or முட்டைக்கோஸ் (Cabbage) Curry
(All TamBrahm curries are vegetables steam – sauted with some seasoning for flavor.
No oil ginger garlic onion tomato circus here !)
1. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan
Splutter
1 tsp jeera
1 tsp mustard
Few curry leaves
Add and saute for a minute
1 serrano pepper sliced
1 inch ginger julienned
1/4 tsp asafoetida
(At this point, for more flavor and as a variation, Sauté 1 cup onions light brown before adding the cabbage.)
2. Add 5 cups chopped washed cabbage
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup frozen peas
3. Saute/ shut / cook in steam and water the cabbage releases / saute till done.
4. Garnish with cilantro and serve hot as a side dish!
Rooted in Rasam 