Remember the easy fried purple cabbage vegetable we made last week? Well, this week was pretty busy too. So mom made her easy cabbage and corn stir fry; another one of those quick and easy vegetarian dishes to cook when you’re in a hurry. Just chop, fry and eat!
The traditional cabbage vegetable dish is called kobichi bhaji in Marathi or gobheechi bhaji in Hindi. We make it slightly different than the regular Indian dish by adding the sweet corn and tweaking a few of the ingredients.
So, what are the ingredients for this Easy Corn and Cabbage Bhaji?
The main ingredient, of course, is your cabbage! Can’t make a cabbage bhaji without it. By the way, if you’re not Indian, bhaji is the Indian term for vegetables. It can be used for raw or cooked vegetables, as can the word sabzi.
1 Cabbage (approximately half a kg)
100 grams Sweet Corn
2 tbsp Oil or Ghee
1 tsp Cumin (Jeera)
1 tsp Mustard Seeds (Rai)
1.5 tsp Salt
3 Green Chillies
5 Curry Leaves – Optional
Steps to make the Cabbage and Corn Sabzi
Chop the cabbage and set aside. Do the same with the chillies.
Now take a dish and pour in about 2 tablespoons of oil or ghee. Make what we call a “tadka” by adding in the jeera (cumin) and rai (mustard seeds) and frying for 2 minutes.
Next, add in the chopped chillies and fry for 2 more minutes. If you don’t want to use fresh chillies, use about 2 tsps of red chili powder. This will give it a different spicy flavor. Use lesser if you want it milder.
Next, add in the chopped cabbage and sweet corn and fry for 2 to 3 minutes before adding the curry leaves in.
The curry leaves are not necessary, but they cool the body and are supposedly good for digestion. They also have a carminative effect like ginger. You know, breaking down and getting all the unnecessary gasses out.
Let it cook for 2 more minutes, and that’s it! Easy peasy cabbage and corn vegetable is ready to serve! Enjoy with some rotis, pooris, beetroot puris, and a spoonful of yogurt or chutney.
Tips for making Mom’s Cabbage and Corn Stir Fry
- Serve with chapatis or puris and a few spoons of yogurt or green chutney.
- Or roll in a chapati like a taco along with some hot sauce and turn it into a grab-and-go lunch.
- To make a meaty version, add some boiled shredded beef or roast tongue just before serving.
- You can store in the fridge for a week. Reheat before serving.
- Want to make purple cabbage instead? Try this purple cabbage stir fry.
Other Recipes To Try
- Naralchi Wadi Recipe, a delicious coconut dessert
- Corned Tongue Slices Recipe
- Ginger Wine Recipe (Homemade)
- Mutton Paya Khudi
- East Indian Kimad Drink Recipe
- Easy Buttery Oyster Mushroom
- Rice Cake Recipe
- Semolina Date Cake with Candied Orange
- Sorpotel aka Sarpatel
- Goat Tripe or Vajri Khudi
- Special East Indian Chicken Tope
- Bottle Gourd Halwa
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Easy Corn and Cabbage Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 Cabbage approximately half a kg
- 100 g Sweet Corn
- 2 tbsp Oil or Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin (Jeera) Jeera
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds (Rai) Rai
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 3 Green Chillies
- 5 Curry Leaves Optional
Instructions
- Chop the green cabbage and leave aside.
- Chop the green chillis fine and leave aside.
- In a pan, make a tadka by heating oil with cumin (jeera) and mustard seeds (rai.)
- After two minutes, add in the chopped chillies and fry for 2 more minutes. (If you don't want to add chillies, add 2 tsp red chili powder. )
- Add in the chopped cabbage, sweet corn, and salt and fry for 3 minutes.
- Add in the curry leaves.
- Serve with bread or rotis.
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Just made this today. The corn made it sweeter so the kids didn’t fuss about eating it. Thanks!
That’s great!
Funny addition! Corn! But we just had this for lunch. Heaped it on some naan bread and covered it with cheese. Heavenly.
That sounds delicious Dina.
How do you know which chili powder to use?
Hi Corinne,
You can use any medium spicy to very spicy chili powder.
We made it with the shredded beef and rolled it in tacos. Delicious!
That’s great Angie!