Pressure cooker Cabbage Curry(கூட்டு )

I often buy purple cabbage because it tastes awesome and you can make a colorful plate with purple cabbage.You get it in mexican stores .I usually do a mexican dish with it, this time i wanted to make something traditional using purple cabbage. I decided on making kootu.This goes very well with kuzhambu and rasam rice. You can eat it with chappathis too.

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Preparation time:5 min

Cooking time:15 min

Serves:2

Ingredients:

• 5 leaflets purple Cabbage
• 1 small Onion.
• 2 split green Chilies.
• 2 tbsp split Channa dal.
• 1/4 cup split Green gram dal.
• A pinch of Turmeric.
• A pinch of asofoetida.
• Salt as required.

To Temper:

• 1/2 tbsp Mustard Seeds.
• 1/2 tbsp Cumin Seeds.

Method:

• Cut the Cabbage in to thin slices (1/4 inch height 1/4 inch width).
• Chop the onions and slit the green chilies.
• Add onion, cabbage,dal, turmeric ,asofetida,chilies to a pressure cooker with required water (Don't add too much water because curry will become too thin)

• Cook it for 2 whistles and let it cool down.
• Temper the oil with items "to temper"(wait for the Mustard seeds to splutter and add the cumin seeds).
• Now add the tempered mixture to the cooked dal veggie mixture .
• Add the required salt and boil it for 2 more minutes .

• You purple cabbage curry / kootu is ready to be served.
• Enjoy it with chapathi or rice .

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