Cabbage Moong dal Parupu Usili

 Ingredients 

Cabbage - 1/2

Curry Leaves

Coriander Leaves

Moong Dal - 1/2 rice cup (soak)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp powder

Mustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Coconut oil 1 tsp

Any cooking oil - 2 tsp

Red Chillies - 2 nos.

Grind the soaked moong dal, 1/8 TSP turmeric powder and salt ( without water into a fine coarse paste. 

In a kadai add 1 tsp oil when it is hot add mustard seeds. When it cracked add asafoetida powder and then add the chopped and washed cabbage to it and also 1/8 TSP turmeric powder. When it is cooked switch off and remove from fire.  Now in another clean kadai add 1tsp of cooking oil and coconut oil and when it becomes hot add the ground moong dal paste and saute till they become crumbs in texture.  Now add the cooked cabbage chopped coriander and curry leaves. Saute for a minute and remove from fire. (Another version is, the ground moong dal can be steamed for fifteen minutes and then sauteed in the tadka for a while till the raw smell goes and then add cooked cabbage to it)