Curried Cabbage Fit for a Maharaja

Deliver your first question, my beautiful, but skeptical friend.  “What is a Maha…watchamicallit?”  Easily answered. A Maharaja is the Sanskrit word for great ruler.  The female version is Maharani.

“So what is Sanskrit?”  Wow, this hole gets deeper and deeper.  It’s like I came to the well to fetch a pail of water and now I have to dig another well!

Sanskrit is the liturgical language of Hinduism.  “What does liturgical mean?”

Will this never end? Can’t you just concentrate on being beautiful and let it go at that?  Liturgical language is a holy language, usually ancient, used in religious services or ceremonies, like Latin in a Roman Catholic Mass, or old Hebrew and Aramaic in Jewish services.

You finished?  Can I get on with one of the most simple and delicious one-dish meals you’ll ever be fortunate enough to have on your plate? 

Curried Cabbage

2 Pounds of green cabbage (about ½ a normal sized cabbage), cored and thinly sliced

1 ½  Pounds of minced pork

1 Red onion, finely chopped

2 Tablespoons (be generous) of mild, red curry paste

1 Tablespoon wine vinegar

1 Heaping teaspoon each of onion and garlic powder

Butter, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

Mayonnaise, used to garnish

A handful of cilantro leaves, chopped and used in the pork and for garnish.

Putting it all together:

Add a little oil to a frying pan. Cook and season the minced pork and add a few pinches of chopped cilantro leaves.  When the pork has lost its color, put it aside.

In the same frying pan you used for the pork, add some butter and cook the diced red onion until it wilts.  Put it aside.

Put 3 pats of butter in a large skillet (medium heat).  When the butter melts, add a 1/3 cup of water and pile in the cabbage.  Toss the cabbage from time to time to keep the cooking even and to keep the wilted cabbage green.

When the cabbage has cooked down, add the onion and curry paste, along with the other seasonings, including the vinegar.  Stir well and make sure the curry paste is well distributed.

Add the cooked pork to the cabbage and stir well.

Remove the pan from the heat.  Put servings of cabbage in shallow bowls, and garnish with a dollop of mayo and a sprinkle of chopped cilantro.

Don’t like cabbage?  This meal will either force you to change your mind, or force you to admit you’re not too thrilled about sex either.

Warning:  Even though this recipe is low carb, you’ll find yourself scurrying to the refrig in the middle of the night, forgetting about a breakfast of bacon and eggs, and signing up for conversational Sanskrit.

This dish is an डेलिचिओउस्  (pronounced Ananda), meaning divine joy! Yeah, my cute little Maharani!