Cabbage Thoran | Kerala Style Cabbage Stir-Fry

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Cabbage Thoran is made with coconut, curry leaves and chilli. Very easy and quick to make healthy and yummy Thoran that tastes good with any South Indian Main Course.

What is Thoran?

Thoran, Kerala's best loved Stir-Fry Preparation, is a Coconut-based vegetable curry from Kerala Cuisine. It is usually served with Steamed rice. Its one of the most important and common dish as part of Onam Sadya. Thoran is a dry dish traditionally made of finely chopped vegetables such as cabbage, yardlong bean and other bean varieties, unripe jackfruit, bittergourd or yam. For festivals and other auspicious occasions, we can exclude onion, but we can use it on the regular days.

Thoran Vs Poriyal

In Tamil Nadu we primarily cook Poriyal in normal cooking oil, in Kerala you just can't do away with cooking in coconut oil. Also the poriyal we do in Tamilnadu, we use broken red chili/green chili for spice and finally garnish with little coconut. Also we cook the vegetable first with water and then once the moisture is absorbed, we will garnish with coconut. But its always a good practice to sauté (Stir-fry) the veggies instead of cooking in water. The crunchiness of the veggie will actually gives more flavor than over cooked vegetable.

Variations

Shredded Vs. Chopping - In this recipe, i have shredded the cabbage. I like shredded / grated cabbage than the chopped one. But you can also chop the cabbage.
Adding onion is optional.