Indiancabbageandcarrots Recipes

SOUTH INDIAN CABBAGE AND CARROT

Steps:

• Prepare chopped red onion and green chili, and set aside.
• Over medium-high heat, heat the oil in a large pan. Once oil is hot, put in cumin seeds -these will start to sizzle and pop immediately. When they do, give them a stir and then add in the onion and green chili. Reduce heat to medium and cook mixture until slightly browned.
• Add tumeric to onion mixture and incorporate well.
• Add carrots, and stir well to coat. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook covered for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add cabbage and salt, carefully folding it in so that as much as possible has come in contact with the carrot mixture. Cover, and cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally until cabbage is soft and everything is incorporated. Serve.

JAMAICAN CABBAGE

Steps:

• Peel tough outer leaves from cabbage, core the head, and shred cabbage.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat; Raise heat to high. Stir onion, green bell pepper, and green onion in the hot oil and cook until vegetables have softened, about 5 minutes, stirring often. Stir thyme, Scotch bonnet pepper, and salt into onion mixture.
• Mix shredded cabbage and carrots into onion mixture until thoroughly combined, cover skillet, and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook until cabbage has started to soften, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Uncover skillet and stir vinegar and sugar into cabbage mixture; cook and stir until cabbage is tender, about 3 more minutes. Discard Scotch bonnet pepper and thyme sprigs before serving.

ETHIOPIAN CABBAGE DISH

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the carrots and onion in the hot oil about 5 minutes. Stir in the salt, pepper, cumin, turmeric, and cabbage and cook another 15 to 20 minutes. Add the potatoes; cover. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until potatoes are soft, 20 to 30 minutes.

SPICED INDIAN CABBAGE

Steps:

• Heat the oil.
• Add the cumin and mustard seeds.
• Add the asafoetida powder.
• Add ginger, garlic, chillies and onions.
• Cook till the onions are a little soft.
• Add the cabbage.
• Add salt and turmeric powder.
• Cook till the consistency which you like your cabbage to be cooked. *I cook about 5 minutes because I like my cabbage crunchy.
• Add chopped cilantro.
• Serve with Indian bread.
• Variations:.
• I have these variations which I use depending on what I am in the mood for
• 1. Add chopped tomato along with the onions.
• 2. Add boiled, diced potatoes.
• 3. Add grated fresh coconut or dry coconut with the cabbage.

GUJERATI-STYLE CABBAGE WITH CARROTS (SAMBHARA)

Steps:

• Core the cabbage and cut it into fine, long shreds.
• Peel the carrots and grate them coarsely.
• Cut the green chili into thin, long strips.
• Heat the oil in a wide, casserole-type pot over a medium-high flame.
• When hot, put in the asafetida.
• A second later, put in the mustard seeds.
• As soon as the mustard seeds begin to pop, put in the dried red chili.
• Stir once.
• The chili should turn dark red in seconds.
• Now put in the cabbage, carrots and green chili.
• Turn the heat down to medium and stir the vegetables around for half a minute.
• Add the salt, sugar and green coriander.
• Stir and cook for another 5 minutes or until the vegetables are just done and retain some of their crispness.
• Ad the lemon juice.
• Stir to mix. (Remove the whole red chili before serving to those unfamiliar with Indian foods.)