Cabbage Poriyal Recipe Serves 2-3 Ingredients: Shredded cabbage - 2 cups Grated coconut - ½ cup (fresh or frozen) Dry red chillies - 2 to 3 Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - ½ tsp Chana dal / kadala paruppu / split chickpeas - 1 teaspoon (you can soak it in warm water for 10 mins if you prefer) Hing / asafoetida / perungayam - a pinch (optional) Turmeric powder - a pinch Curry leaves - a few Salt - to taste How to make Cabbage Poriyal: 1. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, chana dal, curry leaves, red chillies torn into pieces and the hing. Keep the fire of low and make sure the chillies don’t burn. 2. Once mustard seeds start popping, add the shredded cabbage, grated coconut and turmeric powder to the above and cook closed on medium flame until almost soft. You can sprinkle some water if necessary. Make sure you check the water level in between. Cabbage gives out water when cooking so don’t add too much to begin with. 3. Add salt. Keep on low flame and stir occasionally until the water content leaves the cabbage and coconut and the dish becomes dry - about 4-5 mins.
Cabbage Poriyal Recipe Serves 2-3 Ingredients: Shredded cabbage - 2 cups Grated coconut - ½ cup (fresh or frozen) Dry red chillies - 2 to 3 Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - ½ tsp Chana dal / kadala paruppu / split chickpeas - 1 teaspoon (you can soak it in warm water for 10 mins if you prefer) Hing / asafoetida / perungayam - a pinch (optional) Turmeric powder - a pinch Curry leaves - a few Salt - to taste How to make Cabbage Poriyal: 1. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, chana dal, curry leaves, red chillies torn into pieces and the hing. Keep the fire of low and make sure the chillies don’t burn. 2. Once mustard seeds start popping, add the shredded cabbage, grated coconut and turmeric powder to the above and cook closed on medium flame until almost soft. You can sprinkle some water if necessary. Make sure you check the water level in between. Cabbage gives out water when cooking so don’t add too much to begin with. 3. Add salt. Keep on low flame and stir occasionally until the water content leaves the cabbage and coconut and the dish becomes dry - about 4-5 mins.
