Description
This Sri Lankan vegetable curry recipe is really easy to make. Cabbage mallung is a recipe for stir fried cabbage that really transforms the humble cabbage. I serve this as a side dish to accompany rice and curries. This recipe works well with lamb.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp black mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped or one dried crushed red chilli
- 1 tbsp Maldive fish (optional)
- A generous helping of curry leaves (around 10 -12)
- 1 onion sliced
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 400g cabbage finely sliced
- Salt
- 1 tbsp desiccated coconut
- Juice of a fresh lime
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a solid-based frying pan.
- Add the whole spices, the Maldive fish, curry leaves and chill, heat until the spices start to crackle.
- Add the onion and turmeric and cook until they are soft and transparent. Stir so the turmeric evenly coats the onion.
- Now add the cabbage. Cook the cabbage until it’s soft. Keep stirring and tossing for the spices and onion to be fully incorporated into the cabbage.
- Finally, add the coconut and chilli. Again stir through, and cook until the coconut just starts to turn golden.
- Finish off with a squeeze of lime and serve with rice and any curry of your choice.