Cabbage Dal (Muttaikkos Paruppu Koottu)

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 1 cup
• Green gram Dal – 1/4 cup
• Onion – 1/2 cup
• Cinnamon – 1 small stick
• Cloves – 1
• Cardamom – 1
• Dry red chilli – 4
• Coconut – 1 tbsp (grated)
• Salt – to taste
• Coriander – for garnishing
• Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Oil – 2 tsp

Recipe:

1. Boil Green gram dal in a cooker and leave for a whistle. Then add Cabbage and Salt to it, allow this to cook.
2. Fry onion till golden brown and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan. Add Cinnamon, Cloves, Cardamom, Dry red chilli, Coconut and fry for few minutes, then grind them into a paste.
4. Mix the ground paste in cooked cabbage-dal mix. Then add fried onion to this and allow it to boil.
5. Heat oil in a pan, allow mustard seeds to splutter. Then add this to the cabbage-dal mix and remove from heat.
6. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Goes well with: Chapati and White rice.