Cabbage Kootu

A very easy to make yet very comforting dish. You can have it either over piping hot white rice with ghee or have it as a side dish for chappathi .

Ingredients:

1. Cabbage - 1/2 head shredded

2. Onion - 1/2 finely chopped

3. Oil - 1 teaspoon

4. Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon

5. Curry leaves - few

6. Coocnut - 2 tablespoons

7. Jeera/cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon

8. Garlic - 3 cloves

9. Red chillies - 2

10. Moong dhal - 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Cook the moong dhal till soft in a pressure cooker and keep it aside.

2. In a wide kadai, heat oil, add mustard seeds. Wait till it splutters and add onions and curry leaves.

3. Let the onions turn translucent. 

4. Meanwhile, make a fine paste of coconut, garlic, jeera and red chillies.

5.After the onions turn translucent, add the ground coconut mixture and cooked moong dhal.

6. Let it come to a boil, now add shredded cabbage and let the cabbages cook by covering the pan with a lid.

7. Once it comes to requirsd consistency, remove from heat.

Serve it over white rice with ghee.... Yumm :-)