Curried Cabbage Rolls with Tomato and Mushroom

�� ��Excerpt from: A Vegetarian Cooks� Book, The Green Cutting Board Press, 2004

 

Ingredients

 

3 Tbls curry paste*

1 medium onion, diced

1 Tbls fresh ginger, diced

2 cloves of garlic, diced

4 Tbls vegetable oil

2 medium tomatoes cut in to eights

1 cup cauliflower

4 ounces button mushrooms, sliced

4 fresh cabbage leaves

3/4cup tomato sauce

3 cups cooked rice

1 cinnamon stick, broken

1 pinch raw sugar

1 pinch sea salt

1 grind of black pepper

 

*Curry paste

 

2 Tbls ground coriander

2 Tbls ground cumin

1/2 tsp chili powder

2 tsp ground turmeric

1 Tbls vinegar

1 Tbls hot water

 

Preparation

 

Step 0ne, �We taste the sense of each other�, take one step forward�

����������� Mix curry spices with vinegar to make a paste, set aside.

 

Step two, �And feel a child�s embarrassment when surrounded by the company of adults�

����������� Heat a heavy pot to medium and add the vegetable oil, Saut� the onion, garlic and ginger until golden. Take another step.

 

Step three, �Mix the heat of passion with the self-realization of family.�Take a step forward.���������

����������� Add the curry spice to the onion, garlic and ginger, stirring constantly.

 

Step four, �Together, envision, purity and goodness in all men. Again, step together�

����������� Prepare rice with a cinnamon stick, set aside.

Step five, �Take another step; add the fruit of life to your union and season to taste.�

����������� Add the tomato sections and cauliflower to the onion mixture and simmer for 20 minutes.

 

Step six, �Be at home together and satisfy each other as friends�

����������� Saut� the mushrooms and add to one half the rice. Step again

 

Step seven, �Develop your home as if you two were one.� Another step.

������������� Simmer cabbage leaves in steamed water until pliant and drain, set aside.

 

Step eight, �Wrap into the arms of each others security and step forward.

�������������� Divide the rice and mushrooms into 4 portions and wrap into the cabbage leaves in the fashion of spring rolls.

 

Step nine, �Sequester two and be as one,� Take one step.

�������������� Place the cabbage wraps into the tomato sauce in an oven ready pan and cook covered in a 375� oven for 40 minutes.

 

Step ten,�Enter the Universe and reside together, forever. Take the final step.

��������������� Serve over cinnamon rice with warm �Nan� bread*

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