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22 Mar 2008

Cabbage Thoran - Two Types

Thoran / stir fry is a common side dish for a Kerala meal. The red cabbage thoran is little different, since I have added egg in that. You can try both recipes for both types of cabbages.



Cabbage stir fry / thoran Ingredients and method
Cabbage 1/4 kg
onion 1
coconut grated 2 tbsp
green chillies 2
curry leaves few
ginger 1/4 inch piece
turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
mustard seeds
coconut oil
salt

Clean and chop cabbage finely. Chop onion into very finely. Cut green chillies length wise into two. Crush ginger. Mix coconut, green chilies,ginger, turmeric and salt together.
Heat oil, allow mustard seeds to splutter. Then saute onion for few seconds.Add the mixture and stir well. Add cabbage too and mix. Cook on a low flame, keeping the pan closed. Stir occasionally. If needed sprinkle little water. You can add egg in this too if you like.. :)
See more about cabbage here.



Red cabbage keeps changing it's color depending on the ingredients you used to cook with it. When I added egg, the egg white (albumen) changed to green color. It is because of the alkaline nature of egg white and red cabbages usually alters alkaline substances green.This is because red cabbage contains a pigment called anthocyanin. I think the other ingredients like egg yolk which are neutral, made red cabbages retain it's purple color.

Red cabbage stir fry / thoran Ingredients and method

Red cabbage 1/4 kg
onion 1
green chillies 2
curry leaves few
egg 1
pepper powder 1 tsp
mustard seeds
salt
oil

Chop onion and slit green chillies. Heat oil splutter mustard seeds. Saute onion with green chillies. Add cabbage and pepper powder mixed with salt. Sprinkle little water if needed and cook. When it is about to finish, break one egg into it. Stir well until the egg turns like granules.Remove from fire.
Read about red cabbage here.

22 comments:

  1. Both the dishes look great Seena!

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  2. i love this cabbage thoran..i love both the one's

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  3. hey second one looks yummy. i never tried it.. is the taste similar to the white cabbage?

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  4. I like cabbage thoran a lot. I've made a thoran using the red one too but did not like the color at the end. The taste was not bad but I prefer regular cabbage.
    The addition of egg is a nice idea.

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  5. both of them look fabulous, Seena! Nice pictures too.

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  6. Both are delicious... I love thoran ...Got to try the purple one..

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  7. wow!the purple one looks great!both r yummy

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  8. The idea of adding egg is so unique! Great pics! :)

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  9. Both the dishes look delish Seena..:D

    Siri

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  10. I love thoran. Both of them look delicious.

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  11. love that thoran:) cabbage has a delicate flavor when its cooked:) I have never tried the violet color cabbage till now:)

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  12. Hi Seena, I love cabbage thoran -- I usually grate a carrot into it too. Never had luck with cooking purple cabbage, but I never tried a thoran with it either! Looks delicious :)

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  13. Never have I bought red cabbage...its high time i guess i must try it out

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  14. I blogged cabbage thoran too....The purple cabbage turned dark when cooked...how did you retain the colour?

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  15. Thanks friends!
    Anjali,
    It tastes similar to white cabbage..

    Jyothsna,
    I have added some information there in the recipe, pls check it.Hope it helps you.. :)

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  16. We make something similar in k'taka too. We call it palya. Love the purple cabbage pic :)

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  17. ahh..I see the cabbage :D

    I blogged both the varieties as well!

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  18. Cabbage thoran with egg is very new.. I like the red cabbage too.. but make the traditional thoran with white most of the time.

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  19. I too make purple cabbage very often! I will add some cooked macaroni (smallest) in this cabbage poreiyal!

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  20. I tried the same adding green peas (without egg), and little grated cocunut at end.Looked colorful and yummy.Can also add carrot to make it more colorful and healthy.

    Also it will retain its' color if cooked at simmer w/o adding water.

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  21. great simple and delicious recipes. i love both a lot.

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  22. Hi Seena,
    I made the thoran and loved it. I've put a picture in my blog
    Deepa

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