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title: "Cabbage Rice | Cabbage Rice Recipe (South Indian Rice Recipes)"
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date: 2009-07-27
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# Cabbage Rice | Cabbage Rice Recipe (South Indian Rice Recipes)

Cabbage rice recipe, South Indian style - I have no story to share this time, not even the minuscule amount I write usually. Just a good bowl of hot **cabbage rice**, garnished with [**Kerala banana chips**](https://www.cookingandme.com/2013/04/banana-chips-ethakka-upperi-recipe.html) (or benana chips, as TH calls them, to tease the Malayali accent that I supposedly have) and served with love (not so much for the afore-mentioned person though!)

This a **quick and easy rice recipe** if you are short on vegetables in hand and just want a mixed vegetable-added rice to serve for lunch or dinner. Cabbage adds a nice flavour to the rice and when cooked with the minimum ingredients in this recipe, this is a sure winner. It's also a good recipe to make use of cabbage since most of the time I end up buying a medium-sized cabbage and after making the usual **[cabbage poriyal](https://www.cookingandme.com/2014/02/cabbage-poriyal-recipe-south-indian.html)** and Kerala **[cabbage thoran recipe](https://www.cookingandme.com/2013/04/cabbage-thoran-recipe-kerala-cabbage.html)**, I am still left with a good amount of it to make something else entirely. This is the perfect dish to make sure of that last bit of cabbage, I assure you. So with that, let's check out **how to make cabbage rice**, shall we?

[![Cabbage Rice | Cabbage Rice Recipe](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/3760228269_a671a281a3.jpg?v=0)](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/3760228269_a671a281a3.jpg?v=0)

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**Cabbage Rice Recipe**

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**Ingredients:**

1.5 cups cooked rice

1 cup shredded cabbage

1/4 cup green peas

1 small onion, chopped small (optional)

3 green chilies, sliced (adjust to taste)

1 tsp ginger-garlic paste

1 tsp cumin seeds / jeera / jeerakam

2 tbsp coriander powder / malli podi

1 tsp channa dal / kadala paruppu

A pinch turmeric powder

A few curry leaves

2 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

**How to make Cabbage Rice:**

1. Transfer the chopped cabbage, a pinch of salt, green peas and turmeric powder to a vessel. Sprinkle some water. Keep on low fire and cook closed until the cabbage is soft.

2. Heat the oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and channa dal.

3. When the jeera starts spluttering and the dal turns a light brown, add the green chilies, curry leaves and onion. Fry until the onions turn a light brown. (If using onions, of course)

4. To this, add the coriander powder and the ginger-garlic paste. Fry for 1-2 mins.

5. Now add the cooked cabbage and peas to the above. Add salt. Mix and combine well.

6. Remove from fire and combine the rice with the mixture.

[![Cabbage Rice | Cabbage Rice Recipe](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3761026308_a41afafed5.jpg?v=0)](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3761026308_a41afafed5.jpg?v=0)

Serve cabbage rice hot with papad and any salad or raita.