This is a very simple cabbage and chick peas stir fry! but just awesome!, with rice, rasam and sambhar it is absolutely finger-licking!!, I love eating Rasam and Rice with just a simple dry curry and ache for it sometimes!!, This simple dry curry is even served in Marriages, isn't it amazing?. My friends a couple who visited me sometime back, that day I had prepared this with a simple rasam, He kept saying the whole time he just loved it, and was asking his wife to note down in her recipe list!!. I also find it quite delicious with chapatis or pulkas which really goes well.
I love to send this simple Dry curry to Ruchika cooks, who is hosting the Legume love affair #22 edition, which I always miss, even though I cook a lot of legumes!!, This event is Susan's brain child!! .
CABBAGE AND CHICK PEAS DRY CURRY
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Kg White Cabbage
3/4 th cup of Chick Peas
3 Red chillies
1 Sprig of curry leaves
A pinch of Asafoetida
1 tbsp of Oil
1 tsp of Mustard seeds
1 tsp of Chenna dal
1 tsp of Urad dal
A pinch of turmeric powder
METHOD:
First of all soak chick peas day before or around 6 to 7 hours prior to cooking with a pinch Baking Soda, Once they soak well they get swollen drain and wash with water and cook them soft in a pressure cooker with a little bit of salt and water enough to soak them.
Next take a wok add oil, once it is hot add mustard seeds (splutter), followed by the dals, Red chillies,turmeric and washed and drained cabbage and a sprig of curry leaves, Mix well and leave it to cook.
Do not add water when you are making cabbage curry as the cabbage starts giving out its own juices and if you add more water it becomes too watery!!, cook in a low flame, tossing and turning now and then.
Once it is well cooked add the cooked and drained chick peas with a pinch of asafoetida and required amount of salt and mix well (Remember that you have already added a little bit of salt when cooking chick peas!!). when they are mixed well and completely cooked and completely dry,
Finely add freshly grated coconut and mix well together, you can even add 2 to 3 sprigs of fresh, washed and finely chopped coriander leaves. mix well and leave it for few more minutes, see to it there is no water in the Wok and the curry is completley dry.
Serve it with Hot Rice and Rasam or sambhar, chappatis or pulkas!!
Enjoy!! c u soon!!
