Have been here in Cambridge, UK last 2 months now. Slipped into a semi-detachment from the world or rather the interfaces to the world. Newspaper once a week, no TV, no radio, no car. Have bought a cycle though. The long days here give ample time after work to ride it around this intellectually endowed town. Perhaps a quality that inspired a recent implusive culinary creation which came out rather well. So here goes the formula for what I have decided to christen - "Cambridge Cabbage"
Ingredients:
1 Cabbage
2 handfuls of french beans
1 large boiled potato
1 raw potato
3 spoons of cummin powder
Salt and chilli to taste
Steps:
Chop the cabbage to large flat noodle pieces
Chop the french beans to half inch bits
Light fry the above two with salt, cummin powder and red chilli to taste
About half way through add in the mashed potato and shuffle it around
Chop the other potato in fine fingers and light sautee with salt
Once sauteed add these into the main pan with the , beans and mashed potato and drop the cummin powder 3 spoons or less to taste
Place a plate above the pan to cook in steam
18-22 min and you are done
For all its simplicity, the smoothness with which the cabbage, french beans and the mashed and sauteed potato variants blend in together, you'll relish it long time to come.
But frankly, humble thought it may sound I feel this can be a serious contender to the Great Indian recipe panel around these ingredients - which have for the most part been limited to,
1. Cabbage light fried
2. Cabbage and potato light fried
3. Potato and French beans light fried
4. Potato by itself
But now - time for change - time for the humble cabbage to show its intellectual avatar -
Time for "Cambridge Cabbage"
:)
