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Cabbage Thoran ~ Cabbage Sauté with Coconut and Spices | A Kerala Recipe

Published: Jan 20, 2015 · Modified: Apr 5, 2018 by Manju · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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Cababge Thoran - Cabbage Saute with Coconut and Spices - A Kerala Recipe for Sadya - Mirch Masala

Does it happen to you as well that, some days just get the better of you. They just tire you out. Not for any particular reason but its as if that is what the day was supposed to do to you. Where as some other days bring in all the positive energy from around the world. You get through all of your to-do list, find time for everything and go to bed a very happy accomplished person. Then again, you probably went to bed the night before the good day and the bad day thinking you have to get to those 1000 things on your to-do list. It is not like you planned for it to be any kind of day. It just happens.

I have been trying to make some of those bad days into good ones, lately. One of the few different things I am trying is get back into my yoga days. I am not an active yoga practitioner or anything even close to that. I am a beginner at the very best. I just love yoga. I can find the energy to do it even on the most harried of days and I feel a lot at peace after that. I was a regular at it for almost a year before I got pregnant and through out my pregnancy as well. I tried to get back into it after V, but I have not been able to sustain it. A few weeks here and there at best is all I have been able to manage.

Another thing I am trying to do is to write in my little book of gratitude – the things I am happy about for that day – before going to bed every night. I do think of all the good things that happen to me and feel grateful for my life but I somehow feel that when I write it down and I see those words, they make a huge difference.

What is it that you do to try and turn around those bad days into good ones?

Cababge Thoran - Cabbage Saute with Coconut and Spices - A Kerala Recipe for Sadya - Mirch Masala

I leave you with a very simple recipe with a vegetable that does not really get all the credit it should. I love cabbage and make a whole lot of different things with it. I know there are some haters of this vegetable out there. Even if you have tried a cabbage thoran recipe before, do give this a try. The ground green chillies with the coconut, seems to get a lot more flavor into the cabbage than most other recipes without it do. I love it that way and hope you do too!

It is vegan and gluten free too!

Cabbage Thoran ~ Cabbage Saute with Coconut and Spices

Ingredients

  1. ½ medium sized cabbage, chopped
  2. ½ red onion, chopped
  3. 1 tbsp. coconut oil
  4. ½ tsp. mustard seeds
  5. 5 - 6 curry leaves
  6. ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
  7. ¼ cup grated coconut (I use frozen coconut that is thawed)
  8. 2 - 3 thai green chillies
  9. salt, to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in a wide bottomed pan. Add the mustard seeds to it.
  2. Once they splutter, add curry leaves and the onions. Add the turmeric to it as well and saute till the raw smell of turmeric disappears. Don't let the onions brown.
  3. Add the cabbage, sprinkle a little water. Cover and cook on low-medium heat, till cabbage is soft and cooked.
  4. Add salt and stir well.
  5. Microwave the thawed frozen coconut for 30 secs or so, till it becomes warm.
  6. Pulse the coconut and green chillies in a food processor till the chillies are broken into the coconut mixture.
  7. Add this to the cabbage mix in the pan and stir in well.
  8. Remove from heat and serve with rice.

Notes

  1. I warm the coconut in the microwave so that the natural oil in the coconut blends back in with the coconut. Otherwise the oil separates when frozen, even though you don't see it and it becomes a sticky mess in the food processor and does not pulse or grind well. You can opt out of this step, if you want and skip this step if you are using fresh coconut.

Cabbage Thoran ~ Cabbage Sauté with Coconut and Spices | A Kerala Recipe

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Cuisine: Indian, Kerala
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Ingredients

  • ½ medium sized cabbage chopped
  • ½ red onion chopped
  • 1 tbsp. coconut oil
  • ½ tsp. mustard seeds
  • 5 - 6 curry leaves
  • ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
  • ¼ cup grated coconut I use frozen coconut that is thawed
  • 2 - 3 thai green chillies
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  • Heat the oil in a wide bottomed pan. Add the mustard seeds to it.
  • Once they splutter, add curry leaves and the onions. Add the turmeric to it as well and saute till the raw smell of turmeric disappears. Don't let the onions brown.
  • Add the cabbage, sprinkle a little water. Cover and cook on low-medium heat, till cabbage is soft and cooked.
  • Add salt and stir well.
  • Microwave the thawed frozen coconut for 30 secs or so, till it becomes warm.
  • Pulse the coconut and green chillies in a food processor till the chillies are broken into the coconut mixture.
  • Add this to the cabbage mix in the pan and stir in well.
  • Remove from heat and serve with rice.
  • Notes
  • I warm the coconut in the microwave so that the natural oil in the coconut blends back in with the coconut. Otherwise the oil separates when frozen, even though you don't see it and it becomes a sticky mess in the food processor and does not pulse or grind well. You can opt out of this step, if you want and skip this step if you are using fresh coconut.
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