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?
It has no taste. etc etc. Get it… whine whine whine
Mercifully looking at 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.
The cabbage should be al dente’ and not cooked to a mush.
4. Garnish with cilantro
🐝Busy Day🐝 Pressure Cooker/ Instant pot method
In a small pressure cooker ,
Add
1tsp oil
3 tbsp water
1 tsp jeera
1 tsp mustard
Few curry leaves
1 serrano pepper
1 inch ginger julienned
Followed by
4 cups chopped washed cabbage
1tsp salt
1 cup frozen peas
1/4 tsp asafoetida
Cook for 1 whistle. Release pressure with a long handled laddle IMMEDIATELY.
Saute a couple minutes to absorb any water at the bottom of the cooker or drain it, depending on how the cabbage is on opening the cooker.
This is all dependent on the water content of each cabbage. The cabbage should be al dente’ and not cooked to a mush
Sprinkle cilantro.
If using Instant pot,
Instant pot to Pressure cooker “whistle” conversion –
2 whistles = pressure cook for 5 minutes in Instant pot
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