Simple Cabbage Garbanzo Curry

This is another recipe I learned from my cousin Rashmi. During our last visit to her place for get together, she made this curry. I really loved the combination of cabbage and Garbanzo beans. I usually add green peas with cabbage. But this is something new to me. So thought of trying it today.

Ingredients:-

1. Cabbage - 3 cups ( chopped)
2. Garbanzo beans - 1 cup ( I used canned beans cos its already cooked)
3. Salt to taste
4. Oil - 1 tsp
5. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
6. Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp
7. Red chillies - 1 or 2 (acc to taste
8. Shredded coconut - 1 tsp (optional)
9. curry leaves - for garnishing
   

First drain the required amount of garbanzo beans from the can and keep it aside. Add the chopped cabbage in a pan, add required amount of water and salt(just enough for cabbage cos beans will have salt), cook it nicely. Make sure its not mushy. Drain the extra water from cabbage and keep it aside. Pre heat oil in the same pan, splutter mustard seeds, fry urad dhall & red chillies to golden brown, add cooked cabbage and garbanzo beans and mix everything together. Also add the coconut and mix well. Turn off the stove. Garnish it with curry leaves. It just took me 7 minutes to finish this curry.

Cabbage curry

This is another way of doing Cabbage curry. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:-

1. Cabbage - 2 cups (washed and chopped)
2. Moong Dhall - 1/4 cup (measuerd in the same cup using cabbage is measured)
3. Oil - 1 tsp
4. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
5. Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp
6. Asafoetida powder - a pinch
7. Salt to taste
8. Curry Leaves - few
   

Nowadays people are becoming more health conscious. Here in this recipe in order to avoid coconut, we use moong dhall. Now lets go to the recipe. First soak the moong dhall for atleast an hour. Cook the cabbage with required amount of water and keep it aside. Now take a wide pan, preheat oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add urad dhall, asafoetida powder and curry leaves and fry it to golden brown. Now put the cooked cabbage and add salt to it. Mix it thoroughly and carefully. Now drain the moong dhall fully without a drop of water and mix it with cabbage. Mix everything nicely. Moong dhall compensates the taste of coconut. This is also used as a side dish.