Sunday, March 23, 2008

Cabbage with Fresh Garbanzo Beans

Adding protein to veggies while preparing subzis is a common thing in our cooking. Adding various beans and dals like toordal, moongdal, fresh soybeans, green peas will increase the nutrition value besides enhancing the taste factor. Today's recipe has the addition of fresh garbanzo beans to cabbage. Unlike the dried version chana, fresh garbanzo are so sweet and tender that one would love to snack on them instead of adding to some thing else. Ingredients needed: Cabbage, finely chopped - 4 cups Green garbanzo beans (removed from the pods)- 1/4 cup A handful of fresh, grated coconut Finely chopped green chillies - 2 Salt For popu/seasoning - 1 tbsp oil, 1 tsp each of chanadal, uraddal and mustard seeds, A few curry leaves Cooking part: Heat oil in a skillet and add all the seasoning ingredients in that order. When mustard seeds start to pop and the dals start turn to red, add the green chillies and saute for about 30 seconds and add the cabbage to the skillet. Cook the cabbage till it is done with in between stirring. It would have turned tender. To this cabbage, add the coconut, garbanzo beans and salt and mix well. Let it sit for a couple of minutes, mix agian and turn off the stove. Post a Comment

9 comments:

  1. Back home when these fresh beans were in season we loved to eat them as they were and also with a little bit of chilli powder and lime..makes a gr8 salad. I saw these in my farmers market last week and was wondering what to do with them, good recipe. Will try it the next time I buy these beans. :)

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  2. Kura chala bangundi suma. fresh garbanzo beans dorakadu kani fresh toor dal dorukutundi, I will try with that. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

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  3. Suma, Pics and recipe chala bagundi.Cabbage chestanu mee lage kani eppudu fresh garbanzo veyya ledu.will give this a try

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  4. what a gorgeous pic! its difficult to get fresh green channa here and the frozen ones doesn't taste half as good as the fresh ones:(

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  5. ever tried this combo, must be testing great :) , thanks for sharing recipe Suma . Pic is great as usual.

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  6. I don't think I've seen the fresh ones here...
    What lovely pics, Suma!

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  7. I haven't even read the recipe yet but what beautiful, vibrant pictures!

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  8. I have never seen fresh chickpeas before. They look wonderful. THanks for posting this.

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