Name: Cabbage Rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Rice (Cooked); 2 cups Cabbage (Shredded); 1 nos Onion (Sliced); ¼ cup green peas; 2 nos Green Chili (Slit); 1 tsp Ginger (Finely Chopped); To taste Salt; 1 tsp Ghee; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; ½ tsp Cumin Seeds; 2 tbsp Oil; Few Curry leaves

3.5 from 2 votes

Cabbage Rice, a quick, easy to make healthy rice variety which is a perfect recipe for Kid's Lunch Box. Cabbage along with onions, peas are sauteed with salt, green chili and ginger. To this sauteed veggies, cooked rice is added and gently mixed. A very mild but so delicious rice with richness of vegetables.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

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Most of the time, thinking of kids friendly lunch box dishes are our main challenge. Most of the times, kids tend to bring back most of their lunch back because of many silly reasons. I personally feel that right dishes with perfect taste always makes them love their lunch. I try to experiment with many dishes and for my kids, and personally my kids love all rice varieties. Especially Cabbage rice and carrot rice are their favorite. This Cabbage Rice is pretty simple to make. Most of us make this same method and prepare poriyal but with this poriyal we can add rice and enrich with ghee and you won’t believe kids will love this awesome dish and for us the purpose of making them eat a vegetable also gets completed with this rice!

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Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and starts to sputter, add cumin seeds

Then, add finely curry leaves, chopped ginger and slit green chili and fry for few seconds

Next, add finely sliced onions and sauté the onions till translucent.

Now, add shredded cabbage to the pan

Also add green peas to the pan. Add salt and mix well. Keep the flame in low and stir-fry the cabbage till the cabbage is cooked and becomes soft and tender