Cabbage Poriyal

Cabbage comes under green leafy vegetables. This is a type of vegetable we can eat it raw or in cooked from. Cabbage contains Vitamin K. By eating a cup of cabbage with your daily diet makes a healthy diet. The vitamin k helps in "Blood clot", so we should make cabbage as regular food. The below shown recipe is simple from of cooked cabbage. It is called as Poriya or side dish. In India we use to take this with the main course like rice, sambar and rasam. Cabbage can be used in salad, soups, and curries and in many more ways.

 Ingredients:

• Shredded cabbage - 2 cups
• Grated coconut - 1/2 cup (fresh or frozen)
• Green chilies - 2 to 3
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
•  Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder – less than ¼ tbsp
• Curry leaves – 1 string
• Salt - to taste
• Clintro-garnish

Method:

1.     Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, when mustard crackles add urad dal, curry leaves, green chillies and toss it. Add the shredded cabbage, turmeric powder and salt and mix well. Simmer the flame until cabbage cooks. You can sprinkle some water if necessary. Make sure you check the water level in between. Cabbage oozes out water when cooking, so don't add too much water in the beginning. 

2.     Check for salt. Stir occasionally until it becomes dry .Now add grated coconut and let it be for 4 to 6 mins. Garnish with cilantro .Serve it hot.

3.     Goes well with Rice,Rasam etc.

Notes: Add half of the salt in the beginning, because it may become too salty when you add with water .If needed can add at the end.