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Pan Gobi jay Saag ja Choka

Cabbage vegetable rice

Servesabout 6
PrepThe rice is soaked for 1 hour first

A one-pan, mildly spiced rice (choka) tempered with mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chillies, coloured with turmeric and given a gentle sour note by mango powder (amchur). Uses up: Pan Gobi jo Saag (the Bhatia cabbage dish), stirred in once the rice is half cooked. Eaten at lunch.

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  1. Soak the rice in water for before cooking.

  2. Heat the ghee in a deep pan over a medium flame. When it is hot, add the mustard seeds.

  3. When the mustard seeds begin to pop, add the curry leaves, the chopped green chillies and the chopped tomato.

  4. Drain the soaked rice, add it to the tempered spices and mix well.

  5. Pour in 1½ cups water.

  6. Let the rice cook until the water has reduced by half. Add the Pan Gobi jo Saag, red chilli powder, mango powder, turmeric powder and salt and mix well. Turn the flame down to low and cook until the rice is fully cooked and all the water has dried up.

  7. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve piping hot.

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Serve with

Lunch, with plain curd or Tamatay ji Chutney (tomato chutney).

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Nutrition

Estimated

Per serving

290 kcal

Protein
6 g
Carbohydrate
57 g
Fat
4 g

We estimate about 6 servings from the weight of the dish.

Whole recipe

1,760 kcal

Protein
34 g
Carbohydrate
340 g
Fat
26 g

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Where this recipe comes from

Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara, shared by Jaya Gajria Bhatia.

See the original recipe and photos