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Muttaikose Usli Cabbage with Split Pea Crumbs
A south Indian wedding side: soaked yellow split peas and red chiles ground, steamed into a firm cake and crumbled into cabbage tempered with mustard seed and urad dal, where the crumbs swell and thicken the sauce.
- YieldServes 6 as a side
- Hands-on40 min
- Total3 h 3 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Split pea cake
- 200 gyellow split peas (chana dal), picked over for stones
- 6dried red Thai or cayenne chiles, stems removed
- 2 tspcoarse kosher or sea salt, 1 tsp for the cake, 1 tsp for the cabbage
Split pea cake
- ½ tspground asafetida
- to tastevegetable cooking spray, for the steamer
Cabbage
- 2 tbspcanola oil
- 1 tspblack or yellow mustard seeds
- 1 tbspskinned split black lentils (urad dal), picked over for stones
- 350 ggreen cabbage, finely chopped (about 4 cups)
- ½ tspcayenne
- ¼ tspground turmeric
- 13 leavesfresh curry leaves, medium to large; 12 to 15
- 240 mlwater
- 2 tbspfresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped
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