Pappu cabbage / Cabbage dal

Cabbage Dal:

Let us talk a truth now.See i some how got  used  not to allow cabbage in  my meal and so is my husband.
So we thought happyyy, we can get rid of that.
But later through my bestttt friend roja,got to know if cabbage gets angryyy on us its not good for health.

Sorry confused you ;) Cabbage is a negative calorie food and also may
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whats wrong in trying ...so i started with Cabbage Dal.Simple but tasty.

                                                                                                         

Requirements:
1.  Cabbage    - 1/2 piece ( grated or sliced into small pieces)
2.  Toor dal ( kandi pappu) - 1 cup
3.  Chillies ( slit vertically)-2
4.  Tomatoes - Nice red ones - 2
5.  zeera    - spoonful
6.  Tamarind - lemon sized
7.  salt     - according to taste
8.  Haldi    - according to taste
9.  chilli powder - according to taste
10. Onion     - 1

For tadka / popu:

mustard seeds - spoonful
red mirchi    - 2
curry leaves  - few
garlic pods   - 2
channadal     - spoonful
urad dal       - spoonful
Oil               - 3 spoons


1. Slit the onion and chilli vertically.
2. Cut tomato in to small pieces
3. Now take the toor da in a cooker.wash it and pour 1:2 glasses of water
   Two glasses of water for one glass of toor dal.
4. Add grated cabbage pieces,tomato pieces,onion,chilli,chilli powder,haldi,tamarind
5. and close the lid and allow it to pressure cook.
6. Depending on one's taste you can allow it to cook for two to three whistles and for a very smooth dal,allow it till 4 whistles
7. Now bring it down and mash it to smooth paste with bottom of your spoon.
8. Now heat the oil in a kadai and put all the tadka ingredients
9. add the tadka to our cabbage dal.

Enjoyy the low calorie food with high quality taste