This is a regular vegetable dish cooked in almost every Bengali family.It is a no garlic no onion dish yet it is so flavourful.It is a dry cabbage dish and flavored with simple cumin and coriander.You can make it simply with tomato or potato or you can make it a bit more tempting by adding prawns and peas.
Type: dry curry
Cooking time: 30-35 minutes
Serve:8 6
Let’s see the recipe below👇
Ingredients:
- 2lb chopped cabbage
- 1 tbs ginger paste
- 1 tbs sugar
- Salt to taste
- 2 tbs spice mix (2 tbs cumin powder +1 tbs coriander powder)
- 1 tbs whole spice ( crushed – 1 cinnamon, 3 green cardamom, 2 cloves)
- 1 large tomato chopped
- 2 medium sized potato diced
- 1 cup deveined prawns
- 1 cup blanched peas
- 1 tbs turmeric powder
- White oil for cooking
- 1 tbs whole cumin
- 3-4 green chillies
Procedure:
- In a pan heat 3 tbs white oil
- Fry the potatoes
- Add whole cumin
- Now add the whole spice crushed
- Add the ginger paste
- Add the tomato chopped
- Add the salt and sugar
- Now add the spice mix and stir until oil separates
- Now add the prawns and the green chillies
- Take out the prawn
- Now add the cabbage
- Add turmeric
- Now fry them well and cover and cook
- In between remove the lid and you can see some water has come out from the cabbage
- Now add the fried potatoes
- Stirl well and again cover
- After repeating this process for 2-3 times you will see that now no water is coming out from the cabbage
- Now add the prawns and the peas
We’ve made a step by step video to make it more useful to you all👇
Enjoy this recipe with steamed rice or tortillas.
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Tips
- Chop the cabbage and pour hot water over it.
- Keep it for 5 minutes
- Now wash with cold water for a great tasting cabbage
- Don’t over cook your prawns or it will become chewy, so I added them before and then kept them aside
- Later I added them to the dry cabbage curry
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