Fragrant, comforting, and easy to serve as a complete meal, cabbage rice recipe | cabbage pulao recipe | spicy cabbage pulav is a vegetarian south indian rice made with oil, mustard seeds, and cumin / jeera in about 15 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 2 Servings
- Category: rice
- Cuisine: south indian
Ingredients
- 3 tsp oil
- ¾ tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin / jeera
- few curry leaves
- 2 tbsp peanuts
- 1 green chilli (slit)
- ½ onion (finely chopped)
- ¼ carrot (grated)
- 2 tbsp capsicum (finely chopped)
- 2 cup cabbage (finely chopped)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp garam masala
- 2 cup cooked rice
- 2 tbsp coconut (grated)
- few coriander leaves (finely chopped)
Method
- firstly, in a large kadai heat 3 tsp oil and splutter ¾ tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp cumin and few curry leaves.
- also, saute 2 tbsp peanuts until it turns crunchy on low flame.
- additionally, saute 1 green chilli and ½ onion until the onions turn translucent.
- furthermore, add ¼ grated carrot and 2 tbsp capsicum. saute and cook well.
- now add 2 cups finely chopped cabbage, ¼ tsp salt and saute 3 minutes or until it cooks well.
- also add ¼ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp chilli powder and ½ tsp garam masala. saute on low flame till spices turn aromatic.
- furthermore, add 2 cups cooked rice, ¼ tsp salt and mix gently.
- cover and simmer for 3 minutes or till rice absorb spices.
- now add 2 tbsp coconut and few coriander leaves. mix well.
- finally, serve cabbage rice with raita or pack to your kid's lunch box.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
