Cabbage stir fry/ palya is a simple yet flavourful accompaniment. It tastes good with rice and sambar or rasam. It can also be served with chapati or roti.
Cabbage is one of the veggies that I cook on a regular basis. It is flavourful and pairs well with both rice and chapati. It can be easily made with a few ingredients. The cabbage stir fry is also called as thoran, palya and poriyal.
Let’s know a bit of cabbage:
It is one of the widely grown vegetables in the world. It is a low calorie, fiber rich leafy vegetable. It is the store house of phyto chemicals.
Variety:
Different varieties of cabbage are cultivated such as green, purple, red, savoy, bok-choy and napha cabbage.
Benefits of using cabbage:
Cabbage helps in preventing cancer. It helps in reducing bad cholestrol. It aids in weight loss. It can be eaten both raw and cooked. It is a rich source of fibre. It helps prevent constipation. It boosts mental functions.
Culinary usage:
It can be used both in raw and cooked form. It is versatile vegetable which eases our cooking. From salads to stir fry, it is one of the veggies that most people consume. It is one of the key ingredients in Indo- Chinese cooking. Cabbage rice is easy to prepare and tastes awesome. One can make fried snacks and serve with tea.
Cabbage stir fry| poriyal |thoran| palya
Ingredients:
- 1 medium cabbage
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
- 1 teaspoon bengal gram
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 4 green chilly
- a few curry leaves
- salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon milk
- coriander for garnishing
- 1/2 bowl fresh coconut
Method:
- Cut the cabbage as finely as you can. The taste of the stir fry to an extent depends on how we cut it. Put it in water, rinse and put in a colander.
- Take oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, as it crackles, put bengal gram and urad dal to it. Let it get a golden colour. Add turmeric powder, asafoetida and green chilly to it.
- Add the cabbage to it. Put salt and milk. Milk helps in avoiding the smell cabbage emits at times. Since, no onion is used here that can elevate the taste, I add a little milk. Mix it, close a lid and let cook on slow flame.
- Once it tender and cooked, remove the lid and let cook for sometime. Sometimes, cabbage tends to get watery.
- Add coconut if using and garnish with fresh coriander.
Take a tip:
- Adding of coconut enhances the flavour and it is a typical South Indian style of cooking. I have not added here
- One can use green peas along with cabbage. Add a handful of it along with cabbage and let it cook.
- Do cut cabbage as finely as possible.
cabbage stir fry
About the event:
Cabbage stir fry recipe was posted in 2018, four years later, I have added one more picture to it. I have also put the pinterest pic and made a few seo related changes.Sending it to Foodies_Redoing Old Post 76, where we edit out old posts with better pictures, text or both.
Cabbage Stir Fry
Ingredients
Method
- Shred the cabbage as finely as you can. Put it in water and keep it aside. Put in a colander.
- Make seasoning in a pan, add oil, put the mustard seeds, as it splutters, add bengal and urad dal. Let it turn golden, add turmeric powder, asafoetida, green chilly and curry leaves.
- Put the shredded cabbage into it, add salt and milk. Mix and cover with a lid. Let cook on a slow flame.
- Once it is cooked, add coconut and heat it.
- Garnish with fresh coriander.
Notes
- Peas may be added to it.
- Coconut may be avoided.
- Adding of milk helps to remove the odour of cabbage that it has.
cabbage stir fry
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This is one of my favourite side dish with dal chawal.
Thankyou Shobha for the visit.
Healthy and delicious…. perfectly done
Thanks Renu.
I love cabbage in any form and this simple thoran looks just perfect for my taste. Great to serve with rice or roti.
Thanks Pavani for the visit, yes, it tastes good with both rice and roti.
I often make this cabbage stir fry as a side dish with dal chawal and hot pooris. Lovely share !
Thankyou Poonam, good to know that.
My kind of side dish, love these sort of simple and healthy stir fries. Cabbage thoran looks fabulous to have with a bowl of rice.
Thanks Priya, yes they are healthy and ideal for daily cooking.
Cabbage stir fry sounds delicious and healthy. Thanks for the easy simple quick and yummy recipe.
Thanks Sujata
I always enjoy a stir fried cabbage dish that is crunchy and crispy and not overcooked. This poriyali looks so good. Next cabbage dish will be this style.
Yes, you are right, I too like it a bit crunchy. But for elders, I cook it well. Thanks for the visit Mayuri
I love cabbage prepared this way, especially with coconut. So yumm with just rice and dal or chapatis 🙂 Lovely post!
Yes,it tastes good. We South Indians tend to use coconut a lot in cooking. Thanks for the visit Freda.
Cabbage palya is my favorite side dish. I make this once in a week. This will be very good with rice and chapathi.
Uma, it’s my saviour and I too end up making once a week. Thanks for the visit.
Feel like having with sambhar rice.. Love it 🙂
Yes, tastes good with sambhar rice. Thanks Priya.