Dry Cabbage curry with prawns and peas

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

1. Chop the cabbage and pour hot water over it.
2. Keep it for 5 minutes
3. Now wash with cold water for a great tasting cabbage
4. Don’t over cook your prawns or it will become chewy, so I added them before and then kept them aside
5. Later I added them to the dry cabbage curry