Cabbage Mor Koottu
4-5
South Indian Meals
Vegetarian sides
An easy, healthy recipe that can be made with cabbage or chayote squash ! Here I have used Cabbage . There are, of course, variations of this from household to household.
Ingredients
- Sliced cabbage. Slice as thin as you can. A quarter if it’s a medium cabbage or half if it’s a small one.
- Grated Coconut - about a cup / you can reduce if you don’t want it too thick
- Channa dal - 2-3 tbsp. soak at least for an hour.
- ( this is optional and we don’t add it always).
- Green chillies - 1-2 or to taste.
- Jeera - a tsp or so.
- Thick curd - about a cup. You don’t need sour curd for this.
- Coconut oil
- Mustard seeds
- Urad dal
- Red chilli
- Curry leaves
- A pinch of jeera ( I add jeera to a lot of things, irukkattum!)
- Salt to taste
Directions
- Pressure cook cabbage with very little water - 1 whistle. Grind together to a coarse mixture - coconut, green chillies, soaked & drained channa dal, jeera. Add it to the cooked cabbage. Add salt. Let this boil and cook for a few minutes. Once done, switch off and add curd.
- Temper with coconut oil, mustard seeds, red chilli, jeera and curry leaves.
- I don’t boil after curd is added .