Masala Cabbage

I saw this on Youtube by Srirangam Radhu mami and liked it instantly.

Ingredients:-
Cabbage - 1cup, finely chopped
Onion - 1 medium, finely chopped
Garlic - 2, finely chopped
Green chillies - 1 long, finely chopped
Besan/gram flour/kadalamaavu - 1tbsp
Refined oil - 1 tsp, 1tbsp
Garam masala - 1tsp
Salt - to taste
Turmeric powder - 1tsp

Preparation:-

Dry roast the gram flour in a kadai for around 2-3 minutes until you get a nice aroma. Set this aside

Heat oil in a kadai. Add garlic, onion and green chilles. Once the rawness of this goes off, add cabbage. Add
salt and turmeric powder at this point and fry it till the cabbage becomes cooked. Cabbage should not be covered and cooked. Do not add any water to cook the cabbage. Once the cabbage is cooked and dry, add the roasted gram flour little by little, mixing it simultaneously. Add 1tbsp oil to this, and continue to mix it. Fry this for around 2 minutes. Transfer this to a bowl. You can have it with rice and vatha kuzhambu/milaghu kuzhambu etc. 

Soya Chunks Paratha

I was watching Zee TV the other day and accidentally came across few clips of Sanjeev Kapoor preparing few dishes. This was one of them. I am a great fan of Soya chunks and I decided to make this for dinner with my own modifications. It came out really well and tasted yummy.

Ingredients:-
Nutrela Soya chunks(mini) - 1 cup
Mint leaves - 10-12(finely chopped)
Coriander leaves - 1-2(finely chopped)
Green chilli - 1 long, finelly chopped
Garlic - 2, finely chopped
Onion - 1 small, finely chopped
Potato - 1 medium, boiled, peeled and then grated
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Refined oil - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

Preparation:-
Boil soya chunks in enough water after adding little salt. Once it becomes soft, drain and set aside to cool. Once its cool, squeeze out the excess water from the chunks and add it to a mixer jar and just run it once so that it becomes granular. I have seen my mother granulate the chunks this way as my folks used to hate the chunks coz it used to give them a non-veg feel.

I have used mini soya chunks here. Even soya chunks granules is also available in the market, that can also be used. Change the quantity and processing of granules accordingly.

Heat a kadai, add refined oil. Add garlic to this. Once the garlic lets out its flavour to the oil, add onion and green chillies. Let the rawness of onion and green chillies go off. Add the mint and coriander leaves and fry it for a minute. Now add the soya chunks and give it a good mix . Mix it well and add grated potato at this point. Add garam masala and salt. Mix everything uniformly and check the taste. Let this stuffing cool.

Prepare chappathi dough and stuff it with the above mixture like you do for any other paratha. Cook it on the tawa. This paratha can be consumed along with pickle and curd.