Cabbage Curry

A very simple cabbage curry. Love the simplicity and the taste of cabbage in this form. This is one way i do the curry. No fuss No Mess curry!

Ingredients :-

1 Cabbage Shredded finely.
1/2 Cup - Moong Dal(pasipurup)
Salt as per taste.

For tempering :-
1 Tsp - Oil.
1/2 tsp - Mustard
1/2 tsp - Urad dhal
2 - 3 - Red chillies.
1/4 cup - Grated Coconut.(Optional)
A few curry leaves.



Method :-

~Cook cabbage + dal along with salt in enough water till cabbage is tender.
~Drain excess water from the cabbage through a strainer.
~Prepare oil for tempering. Add mustards - wait for it to sputter, add urad dal - fry till it becomes golden brown, add chilles - fry for few seconds.
~Add the cabbage, fry for some time till remaining water evapourates.
~Add coconut, if using.
~Garnish it with curry leaves.

Serve it with some rice + sambar or rasam.

Chunky Mango Muffins

My experience with baking has been very limited. I have baked veg.puffs in 100's and a few store bought cake mixs. Not that i don't like baking, but if i need to bake a bread or cake, the use of egg puts me off. The only time i bought them was when a cousin thought me to make some protein power packed white egg omlette loaded with veggies, but got tired eating them and stopped buying eggs.

When i saw Nandita's Banana Bread, boy was i glad to see something with the ingredients i buy. Made them and liked it very much. With that in mind, i decided to bake some kind of a light cake, but truned it into muffins. Why Muffins, because i just picked up a muffin pan recently. Inbetween deciding on a cake or muffin, my cravings went to the mango i picked up at the grocery store. It is not close the mango we get in India like alphanso or panganapalli, but hey for a Mango Addict like me, it is pretty good. I go bananas aout anything mango:-)

The reciepe is very simple, throw the following items and bake them for 20 minutes :

1/2 cup - All purpose flour(A.P)
1 cup - Whole wheat flour(W.W)
1/2 Tsp - Baking Soda
1/2 Tsp - Baking Powder
1/2 stick - Butter(Melted)
1/2 cup - Sugar(I used both white and brown sugar)
2 Tsp - Milk
1/2 Tsp - Cardamom Powder
1/2 Cup- Diced Mango

~ Pre-heat oven to 375.
~ Mix all of the above ingredients to form a dough.
~ Grease the muffin pan with butter or cooking spray.
~ Fill in the dough in the cups. ~ Bake for 20 minutes.
~ Remove and dig in.

Verdict :
# The muffins tasted it very good, had the texture of bread which i enjoyed maybe because of larger amounts of W.W.
# The baked mango pieces tasted heaven.
# Dried cranberried would have added in some punch.

Lessons Learnt :
# I added 1/2 cup of brown sugar + 1/2 cup of white sugar. Felt it to be little extra sweet by myself(i tend to be more of sweeter personality both in terms of sugar intake as well the other).
# 1/2 of A.P = 1/2 of W.W would have worked better i would think. I had only 1/2 cup A.P.

Sending it to Nandita of Saffron Trail for Weekend Breakfast Blogging #7. Cannot deliver it personally this time around, but i think she will accept this virutally.