Chawli with Cabbage ...as my friend Busybee would write....all my own work.
One of the rare times where my cooking skills and my photography skills are shining!
Home cooking is one of the biggest blessings of 2020. Let us continue it in 2021. Just because restaurants have opened we need not rush to them. Let us eat healthy. Sharing my experiments with cooking at home.
Protein -- typically beans/legumes -- are an important part of a meal for me. I try to make sure I have 15 g of protein at least in every meal. So a total of 60 g at least. Ideally, this should be more...but I am sticking with the older recommendation....hum purane type ke jailor hai!
Vegetables are another important part of a meal for me. Unable to have 400-500 g of vegetables every day. But with fruits, I think I am able to meet this, er, "quota".
I am a maha lazy home chef. I have decided that any dish I prepare should take no more than 15 minutes. Total time in kitchen less than 30 minutes. Solution -- the one pot dish. This could easily become a one pot meal too.
So my first experiment was Chawli (lobia, black-eyed beans) with Cabbage. It is tasting very good. Best part is that I made enough for the two of us. Just a tiny bit I had to keep in the fridge.
I do not follow any recipe. You are warned not to follow my mad cap recipes. If you are a madcap chef like me...you are welcome to borrow ideas and improve upon them.
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Kitchen Time: 30 mins
Ingredients: oil, soaked chawli, chopped cabbage, hot water, Rasoi Veg Kadhai masala, haldi, chilli powder, tomato puree, kala namak.
What I did:
1. Heated 1 tablespoon of oil in pressure cooker.
2. Tipped in the chawli. Stir fried for 5 mins.
3. Added the chopped cabbage. Stir fried for 3 minutes.
4. Added hot water. Added masalas and salt. Tomato puree. Closed the pressure cooker.
[Secret/Trick: Put enough water so that it will steam cook and no water remains!]
{Joke: Bas #^%^% ko chuli bhar paani mein dubao!}
5. Whistle in less than a minute. Reduced gas. Cooked on low for 5 min.
6. Opened lid after 10 mins.
Most awesome Chawli-Cabbage in the world was in front of me! Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Had it with small Methi Thepla bought from the Marathi joint. (er in most places it is small these days)