A side dish and for a change one that doesnt contain potatoes!!

Ingredients:

• 1 medium cabbage(about 500 gms) cut into 1 “ squares
• 4 tomatoes
• ½ C grated carrot
• 3 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp cornflour
• 1 Cwater
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp salt

Method:

• Blanch tomatoes. Remove skin and chop.
• Heat oil, add grated carrot and chopped tomatoes and cook for about 5 minutes. Blend in a mixer.
• Remove blended tomatoes and carrot in a bowl, add vinegar, salt, sugar,soya sauce and mix well.
• Mix cornflour in 1C water and add this to the tomato mixture.  Pour into a pan and cook on stove till the sauce is thick and translucent.
• In a greased baking dish, place the cabbage pieces.
• Pour sauce over cabbage and mix gently.
• Bake in an oven at 280 deg.C for 20-25 minutes till cabbage is done.

 

Notes:  If you are partial to flavours of  Chinese cooking you should like this. The only problem with this dish is that it seems a bit too high on the tomato content- the tomato taste is a bit over whelming. It would be a good idea to play that down a bit…but I dont quite know how… The cabbage comes out pretty crisp inspite of being baked. The crunchy texture was appealing to me. so make this dish if you can figure out a way to tone down the tomato.