Name: Fried Lentil and Cabbage Dumplings with a Tomato-Cream Sauce (Moong Aur Bund Gobhi Koftay Ki Curry)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons coarse kosher or sea salt; 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems for garnishing; ½ medium-size cabbage (about 1 pound), finely shredded (see Tip); ½ cup half-and-half; 1 teaspoon Punjabi garam masala; 1 teaspoon ground Deggi chiles (see box); or ½ teaspoon cayenne (ground red pepper) mixed with ½ teaspoon sweet paprika; 1 teaspoon coarse kosher or sea salt; ½ cup finely chopped red onion; 2 large tomatoes, cored and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon white granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 2 tablespoons canola oil; ½ cup chickpea flour; Canola oil for deep-frying; ½ cup rice flour; ½ cup finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems; 1 cup finely chopped red onion; 4 lengthwise slices fresh ginger (each 1½ inches long, 1 inch wide, and ⅛ inch thick); 4 to 6 fresh green Thai, cayenne, or serrano chiles, to taste, stems removed; ½ cup skinned split green lentils (yellow in this form, moong dal), picked over for stones

Preparation info

Serves
8

Appears in

660 Curries

By Raghavan Iyer

Published 2008

About

These dumplings are delicious, and on occasion I have served them, sans sauce, as an appetizer. A store-bought salsa or any dipping sauce works well too. But do make the curry and eat the dumplings and sauce together: crisp dumplings coated with juicy tomatoes, sweetened a tad and given a bit of wispy chile-heat.

Ingredients

For the dumplings

½ medium-size cabbage (about 1 pound), finely shredded (see Tip)
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Method

To make the dumplings, combine the cabbage and salt in a medium-size bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and let it stand at room temperature to allow the salt to extract the water from the cabbage, 1 to 2 hours.
Meanwhile, place the lentils in a medium-size bowl. Fill the bowl halfway with water and rinse the lentils by rubbing them between your fingertips. T

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