Catering Style Cabbage Moong Dal Stir Fry / Kalyana veetu Kose Poriyal Recipe

Cabbage Moong dal stir fry features in all buffets during Lunch Menu. It taste delicious and easy to make. It goes great with Vathal Kuzhambu, a tangy spicy south-indian curry.   Its my mother's recipe. I loved n remembered this recipe from my childhood onwards.  My mother made this recipe as one of the side dish during all the occasions without fail😜. Lets see the preparation

Ingredients :

Cabbage - 1/2 kg (finely chopped)
Moong dal / paasi paruppu - 1/2 cup (washed n soaked for 20 minutes)
Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Green Chilly - 5 (finely chopped)
Curry leaves - 1 string
Coconut grated - 1 cup
Ginger - 1 tsp (chopped)
Garlic - 4 pods (crushed with skin)
Salt - 2 tsp + 1 tsp

For Seasoning :

Oil - 1 tbsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Dried red chilly - 2 (broken into pieces)
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Method :

Heat a pan with 3 cups of water. Once the water starts to boiling add soaked moong dal. Cook for 10 minutes in a medium flame.

Now add chopped cabbage with 2 tsp of salt and cook for 5 minutes in a lower flame. Turn off the flame. Drain the water n keep the cooked cabbage moong dal aside.

Heat a frying pan with oil in a medium flame.  Add urad dal, mustard seeds, dried red chilly.  Once the mustard seeds spluttered.  Add cumin seeds, green chilly, ginger, garlic, curry leaves, asafoetida, onion n salt. Saute it for 2 minutes.

To this add cooked cabbage moong dal with fresh grated coconut. Stir it well n cook for 2 minutes. Switch-off the flame. Tasty n delicious catering style Cabbage Moong dal stir fry is ready to serve.

Serve with any rice.

Love Cook Joy.