Filling, healthy, sumptuous and yes, easy to prepare!!! That’s how I would like to sum up Cabbage Couscous Wraps. It can easily be a tummy filling main course on your busy days!!!
If you have cabbage at home and some couscous, then you are all set to go. Yes, tahini sauce to go along, would be an icing on the cake.
There are different variations to this very dish. One may consume it as is mentioned in the below recipe along with the Tahini Sauce, or cook over low heat further or bake for some more time to relish soft wraps. The choice is totally yours. Yes agree, that few may not like the taste of the raw purple cabbage. In that case, you may continue cooking / baking it further as mentioned above and then consume, or replace the purple cabbage with the regular green one and proceed.
With a dip like Tahini sauce in place, Cabbage Couscous Wraps can be tasty, as well as healthy!!!
Purple cabbage comes with lot of health benefits. The photonutrients keep diseases at bay while improving the immune system. It also prevents the risks of heart problem, cancer and diabetes. As it is considered to be healthy for brain and heart, it is also known to help in the recovery process for Alzheimer’s disease. Believe it or not, purple cabbage has 8 times more antioxidents compared to its green counterpart!!! The list goes on as the health benefits are numerous.
How to prepare Tahini at home?
Total Time: 25 minutes
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Makes : 4
Ingredients:
Cabbage leaves: 4
Couscous: 1 cup
Coriander leaves: to garnish
Finely chopped cabbage: ½ cup
Sesame seeds: for garnishing (optional)
Finely chopped cucumber: ½ cup
Lemon juice: Little
Water: 1.5 cups (to cook couscous)
Quick Video:
Method:
- Clean the leaves. Make sure that they don’t break
- In a pan, heat some water and dip the leaves in it. Let them soak in hot water for a couple of minutes before taking them out. This ensure that the leaves don’t break when you use them as wrappers later on
- Meanwhile, bring 1.5 cups pf water to boil and add salt to it
- Add couscous and salt. Continue heat in low for a couple of minutes and remove from heat. Let it sit for about 5 minutes
- Take cabbage leaves on to a dry work area and add couscous and layer the other veggies
- Sprinkle some lemon juice and sesame seeds over it
- Carefully wrap by tucking on one side. Make sure that the cabbage leaves don’t tear in doing so
- Once done, you may drizzle some tahini sauce over it and serve, or serve the wraps separately with tahini sauce as a dip
Note :
- Those who don’t like it raw, may cook the wraps over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes in a thick bottomed pan / Dutch oven (or) bake in the oven for about 20 minutes at 180 deg. C
- Those who don’t like purple cabbage, may easily replace it with its green counterpart
- Well, the above recipe is basic. One may enhance the same with say guacamole, some pepper or other spice helpings depending on your taste
Cabbage Couscous Wraps:
The only rule that we have at home for our main course routine is that it should be a healthy and a sumptuous one, loaded with lot of veggies and goodies (needless to say, vegetarian too)!!!
Though from a South Indian vegetarian family, we don’t normally stick to a typical South Indian cuisine when it comes to main course. I keep exploring and trying out new dishes with different vegetables, cooking the same vegetables differently, and at times, consuming raw!!!
One such evening, I wanted to have some simple food, free from spices, low on cooking and high on nutrients. Cabbage couscous wrap was the result!!!
It was so very filling that I couldn’t go beyond 1 wrap!!! Well, purple cabbage is a little crunchy and tastes like raw onions. Those who are not fond of raw onions, might not probably like this. If you are one among them, no worries, you have lot more options still. You can cook / bake these wraps additionally thereby getting rid of its raw pungent taste, or easily replace the purple cabbage with the green one.
Nice one..something different haven’t heard of
Thank you 🙂