This Cabbage Thoran – Kerala Style Cabbage Stir Fry Recipe is a popular but simple vegetable side dish served for Kerala-style traditional feasts like onam sadya and other festivals. These are also prepared in other South Indian states like Tamil Nadu, where it is known as cabbage Poriyal.
The main difference between Poriyal with Thoran is; Poriyal is made by topping off the freshly grated coconut over the sautéed and cooked stir fry veggies; whereas in Thoran, the cabbage is cooked along with the grated coconut.
What is Thoran?
Thoran is a household name in The South Indian state of Kerala. This simple recipe is made with vegetables like cabbage, often with beetroot, or carrot. The cabbage is usually shredded into thin strips, or chopped up fine and then sautéed with coconut; tempering with mustard seeds, red chilies, and curry leaves.
Types of equipment used for this recipe are
Blender
Frying pan
Spatula
The ingredients used for this recipe are
Cabbage: Use fresh regular green cabbage only
Coconut: use fresh coconut for the best result; you won’t get the expected flavor from the desiccated coconut
Oil; one must use coconut oil, no other oil is recommended
Curry leaves; use green and fresh curry leaves for the best results
Onions; for the best result use sambar onion or shallots
Other ingredients are turmeric powder, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, red chili, green chili, and salt
How to make Cabbage Thoran – Kerala Style Cabbage Stir Fry Recipe
Take a blender jar, and add pieces of fresh coconut, shallots, garlic, ginger, cumin seeds, and turmeric powder
Blend them and make a coarse paste (blend once or twice, don’t make a fine paste, otherwise you can mix them manually with the help of your palm)
Heat oil in a pan, add red chili, mustard seeds, and curry leaves for tempering
As they splutter and sizzle, add the shredded cabbage and mix them
Add salt and green chili, cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 2 minutes on low flame
Open the cover and add the coarse paste of coconut and other spices and mix them well and cover the lid for 4-5 minutes
Open it and stir them nicely
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve with red matta rice
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Cabbage Thoran – Kerala Style Cabbage Stir Fry Recipe
Equipment
- blender
- A kadai or a fry pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 1 cabbage
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 50 gm coconut or 1/3rd cup grated coconut
- 15 curry leaves
- 2 onion/shalots
- 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tbsp cumin seeds
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1/2 inch ginger
- 1 red chili
- 2 silted green chili
- salt
Instructions
- Take a blender jar, and add pieces of fresh coconut, shallots,garlic, ginger, cumin seeds and turmeric powder
- Blend them and make a coarse paste (blend once or twice, don’t make fine paste, otherwise you can mix them manually with the help of your palm)
- Heat oil in a pan, add red chili, mustard seeds and curry leaves for tempering
- As they splutter and sizzle, add the shredded cabbage andmix them
- Add salt and green chili, and cover the lid, and allow themto cook for 2 minutes in low flame
- Open the cover and add the coarse paste of coconut and other spices and mix them well and cover the lid for 4-5 minutes
- Open it and stir them nicely
- Transfer them to a serving plate and serve with red matta rice