Cabbage Milagootal – Cabbage Lentil Curry
Palakkad is a city in Kerala. And molagootal is a popular dish among Palakkad Iyers. It is a simple and mild curry made with a wide variety of vegetables such as cabbage, okra, winter melon, chayote, spinach or any of the vegetables of your choice. Today I have made molagootal with cabbage. Try and let me know if you like it. Here you go…
Ingredients:
- Chopped cabbage – 2 cups
- Toor dal – 3/4 cup
- a pinch of asafoetida and turmeric powder
- Shredded coconut (frozen or fresh) – 1/4 cup
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Dry red chilies – 3
- Salt to taste
For Seasoning:
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Urad dal – 1 tsp
- Curry leaves – 6 to 7 leaves
- Dry red chili – 1
- A pinch of asafoetida
Method of Preparation:
- Pressure cook toor dal with 2 cups of water and a pinch of turmeric powder and asafoetida.
- Dal should be mashed and keep it aside.
- Finely chop cabbage and add it to a cup of boiling water in a sauce pan.
- Let the cabbage cook completely till it becomes soft.
- Grind coconut, cumin and dry chilies to a coarse paste with a little water.
- Mix it with the cooked toor dal and add it to the cooking cabbage.
- Mix well and let it come to a boil and turn off the stove and transfer it to the serving bowl.
- Over medium heat, in a small pan or a seasoning pan, add a tsp of oil and add mustard seeds.
- Once they splutter, add urad dal, dry chili, curry leaves and a pinch of asafoetida.
- Once the dal becomes golden brown, remove from heat add it to the molagootal.
11 Comments
Christmas Recipes
Woww.. looks absolutely delicious.. love it 🙂
Indian Cuisine
Looks so flavourful n tempting, apt with rice
Lovely colours Gayathri. We make cabbage molagootal as a staple in ou r homes more so as it removes the aroma of cooked cabbage which many people dont like. Simple preparation packed with flavours.
Shoba
I have 1/4th of cabbage in the fridge and was wondering what to make wih it. now i will make this dal. looks very tasty.
Spicy and tasty, just like the name of your blog. Great recipe!
Super flavorful and aromatic dish..want to give a try…
Krithi’s Kitchen
my hubby can survive on molagootal n rice daily- this looks yum !
The curry looks superb !!! Hey, you ready to post the announcement for VFAM?
Thank you all.
Delicious and healthy!!! Great recipe!
Thanks Kristi.