Cabbage pulao | Simple Cabbage rice recipe
Cabbage pulao is a simple mixed vegetable rice recipe; a perfect lunch box item. Cabbage pulao can be prepared in just 15 minutes with few ingredients.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 small cabbage
- 2 cups cooked rice (cook rice separately)
- 1 onion
- 1 green chilli
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cloves
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 2 tsps ginger garlic paste
- 3/4 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp Garam Masala
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp salt
To garnish:
- Few coriander leaves
- 1 tsp ghee (optional)
Instructions
Preparation:
- Chop cabbage finely, watch with water and drain.
- Chop onions and green chilli.
- Make ginger garlic paste (1 inch Ginger plus 6 garlic pods)
Recipe:
- Heat a Kadai with oil, add bay leaf, Cinnamon, fennel seeds and cloves.
- Add chopped onions and green chillies, sauté well.
- When onions become transparent add ginger garlic paste mix well to remove raw flavor.
- Now add turmeric powder, chilli powder, and salt.
- Add chopped, washed and drained cabbage, mix well with the masala.
- Cabbage has its own water to cook so no need to pour extra water. Just Sprinkle some water, close the lid and cook for 5 to 7 minutes in medium temperature.
- After 7 minutes cabbage absorbs all the water and cooked well.
- Add Garam Masala mix well, and add cooked and cooled rice.
- Do not break the rice and mix gently. Keep in low temperature, close with lid for 2 minutes.
- By this time rice absorbs the flavor of cabbage masala and pulao is ready.
- Garnish with few chopped coriander leaves.
- Add a teaspoon of ghee just before serving for a nice aroma.
Notes
Tips/notes: 1. Use fresh cabbage for this pulao. Always choose cabbage, which is heavy. Heavy cabbages are usually the fresh ones. 2. You can avoid onions if you don't like.3. Do not avoid adding Garam Masala as it removes the nutty flavor of raw cabbage. 4. You can use ghee instead of oil to prepare this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 180kcal
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