Sautéed Cabbage and Sweet Onions with Almonds
Lightly sauteed cabbage with sweet onions and almond. A pretty cool recipe for a pretty non exciting vegetable.
I am back – hopefully! After a long month and a half of unpredictable activities, recitals, school year end picnics and parties, and busy but good time spent among friends, guest and jolly company I am probably ready to post and visit all of you again. This is the last week of school and I am going to force myself to sleep late and just relax for a couple of weeks at least. The mockingbird sings all day, the magnolias, hydrangeas and roses are blooming and I am happy.
During my break Jac of Tinned Tomatoes emailed me that she started a blog – The Food Blog Diary, ” to publicise food blog events, competitions and giveaways.” Bookmark The Food Blog Diary to keep up with the events, announcements and giveaways.
Summer is here ! hot and glaring. Berries, cherries, corns, beans and tomatoes are adding colors and making food shopping pretty exciting. Few weeks back I got a basket of assorted organic tomatoes. The orange, red and yellow were so pretty that I wished I could keep them forever. We sliced most of them for salads – sweet dripping goodness. I treasured and saved them till they started getting old and wrinkled. The last few one were used up in this recipe.
Cabbage is one handsome looking (for some reason I cannot refer to cabbage as a “she”) vegetable, inexpensive, abundantly available but the sound of it makes most turn up their noses to it. However in my home, we have all learned to appreciate cabbage; sometimes cooked in a casual Indian curry, sometimes in the salad, in the basic uncooked form and sometimes simply but elegantly done just like this one. Being a cruciferous vegetable the benefits of cabbage are infinite. They are loaded with phyto chemicals, minerals, vitamins and fiber. Those of you who are not friends with this vegetable, get brave and give this is try and you might just change your attitude. The tomatoes imparts that slight hint of sweet and tang and the curry leaves will blanket the “stink”. Besides it will take only a few minutes to cook this.
Sautéed Cabbage and Sweet Onions with Almonds
Ingredients:
- 1/2 medium cabbage, chopped fine/shredded like in a coleslaw
- 1 large sweet onion, like sweet vidalia or white onions- peeled and sliced thin into half moons
- 2 hot peppers, slit (optional)
- 1.5 cups sliced tomatoes, any kind (I have used colored vine ripe)
- a fistful of sliced almonds
- 1.5 tablespoons olive oil/or any cooking oil
- salt
- some red chili powder/cayenne pepper/paprika – if you want to spice it up
- a fistful of curry leaves/kari patta, shredded (or any other fresh herb that you would want to use)
Preparation:Use a large flat bottomed pan or a skillet.
Heat oil in the pan and sauté the onions and chili peppers (if you are using them) for a couple of minutes till the onions are translucent.
Add the tomatoes and cook till the tomatoes are mushy. Add the shredded cabbage, chili powder and salt; stir to combine the onion, tomatoes and the cabbage and cook at medium to high heat while stirring around till the cabbage is wilted but still slightly crunchy, about 5 minutes. Add the torn curry leaves or any other fresh herb that you would use and stir them in. Switch off the heat and add the almonds. Toss well.
Serve warm or at room temperature as a side dish.
The recipe works wonderfully with the summer BBQ parties as a side with the grilled items. Try it out with pasta, rice or just bread/flat breads and you will not be disappointed.
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Wonderful dish topped with nuts. I just cooked with cabbage too! 🙂
Wow Soma. I have never had cabbage with tomatoes and onions before. Or with almonds for that matter. What a delicious way to glamorize plain old cabbage, which is one of the vegetables I do happen to like. 🙂
I usually make it with potatoes and peas with some dhana jeera, turmeric and red chili pwdr.
Forgot to say, good to have you back. 🙂
Beautiful! That healthy dish looks very flavorful. I love the idea.
Cheers,
Rosa
I love cabbage! every type! I could eat cabbage every day of the week…
But because of my infinite love I have the habit to keep them plain, with no seasoning…most times I eat them without oil at all…I have to change my habit, I’m sure they will be amazing with the right seasoning…
just like this…
Looks gud …love the recipe….quite different
Absolutely heavenly love the almonds there!
Cheers,
Gera
Good to have you back Soma and thanks for the mentiion 🙂
Cabbage looks so good, love the addition of nuts in there!
Thanks for the heads up about Food Blog Diary, I need something like that to keep track of everything that goes on.
Gorgeous! That dish looks so healthy and loved the almonds there 🙂
I never added almonds, should give a nice crunch in each bite.
Hmmmmmm, I love cabbage. Sure looks healthy.
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Never seen any cabbage look that good. I love your pictures.They capture the whole effect of comfort and food.
Luckily we all like cabbage here plus I love the ease of getting this veggie ready in minutes…..love the addittion of almonds, never tried that…..also love tomatoes in salad, can never get enough of those….
Awesome! Those photos look lovely. A friend of mine loves cabbage. I will direct her to your recipe.
Hi Soma, Kamon acho?
Very healthy recipe. I love the addition of almonds in the bowl. Superb photos as usual.
Hamaree Rasoi
Lovely and healthy dish. This must be awesome!
Am sure this will taste great when served cold too … with something hot and crispy fried stuff. Amar cabbage khub bhalo lage but not when cooked with loads of masala and stuff. Eirokom simple stir fry beshi bhalo lage. 🙂
The combination of cabbage and almonds sounds terrific!
I love simple cabbage stir fry. never tried adding onion, tomatoes and of all almonds!!! will try this as a side for our upcoming bbq.
Loved the idea of adding almonds and tomatoes to cabbage, looks fantastic ! Your pictures are, as usual, simply superb…
Regarding your question about multi grain atta, on the packet it says that the atta contains a combination of wheat, soy, maize, ragi (finger millet) , oats , barley and chana dhal (split yellow chick pea lentil). You may find it in the Indian groceries there too, it just started appearing in mine a little while ago…
Thats very different recipe Soma, love addition of almonds, gives a nice flavor and crunch!
This looks so fresh and delicious !!!
Great recipe! I think the almonds and sweet onion are definitely the key ingredients. They add so much to any salad, and the curry is put an even more interesting twist to it all.
Stir-fried cabbage and onions is something I make often, but love your idea of adding almonds to this. Shall definitely try this out next time!
lovely…..yummu yummy yummy….