Cabbage Rice – Instant Pot

Cabbage Rice or Cabbage Pulao recipe is a simple one-pot healthy rice dish made with cabbage, rice, and a few spices made in Instant Pot Pressure Cooker or stovetop. It's gluten-free and vegan. It tastes great when served with the combination of raita or salad for lunch or dinner.

This easy-to-prepare rice dish takes less than 30 mins to prepare and good lunchbox recipe for kids and adults. Compared to the regular South Indian Pulao, Cabbage Pulao requires fewer ingredients and less masala/spices to make it taste good.

Cabbage is one of my favorite vegetables and is always available in my refrigerator. I got this cabbage pulao recipe from my mother, and it is an all-time favorite dish at our house.

More Indian Cabbage recipes from my blog are Cabbage Peas Stir Fry, Cabbage Pakoda, or Cabbage Potato Peas Curry, which goes well with roti or parathas when I have very little time to cook in the morning.

Cabbage Rice Ingredients

These are the main ingredients needed for this cabbage rice recipe.

• Rice: I have used long grain basmati rice, you can also use sona masoori rice.
• Cabbage: Wash and finely chop the cabbage.
• Green Peas: use fresh or frozen.
• Onion: I have used thinly sliced onions.
• Spices: For whole spices, I have used cumin seeds. For dry spices, I have used turmeric, garam masala powder.
• Herbs: Used fresh-cut coriander leaves.
• Lime Juice: use freshly squeezed lime juice.
• Grinding Ingredients: Used freshly grated coconut (optional), ginger, garlic, green chilies, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves.

How to Make Cabbage Rice in Instant Pot

Grind/Blend green chilies, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom together to a coarse paste. Keep aside. You can also add two tablespoons of fresh coconut while grinding tastes excellent.

Press SAUTE mode on Instant Pot. Add oil to the POT. Once POT is hot, add in the cumin/jeera. Then add the blended mixture and saute for 15 secs.

**Note: the mixture can stick or burn to the bottom, stirring continuously.

Then add in the onions and saute until the onions turn light brown.

You can also add chopped tomatoes to this recipe, but I haven't added them to this.

Now add in the chopped cabbage, green peas, turmeric powder, mix well and saute for 30 secs.

Add rice, garam masala, salt, water, and give a quick stir.

Close the lid on the pot. Set the pot to MANUAL/PRESSURE COOK (High Pressure) and set the timer to 6 minutes.

Do a QUICK RELEASE (QR), OR if you have time, wait for NATURAL PRESSURE RELEASE (NPR).

Once the pressure has released, open the lid. Add the juice of a half lemon and garnish with cilantro/coriander leaves and mix well.

The instant pot cabbage pulao/rice recipe is ready, serve with yogurt and raita.

Stovetop Pressure Cooker Method

• Follow the same steps, close the lid, place a whistle, and cook for 2 whistles on medium flame. Pressure cooker Cabbage Pulao is ready.

Variation for Cabbage Pulao

• You can also add 2 tablespoons of shredded coconut (fresh or frozen) while grinding, which gives an extra flavor. But it's optional if you don't have it.

More Instant Pot Rice Recipes

• Tomato Biryani/Rice
• Coconut Milk Pulao
• Bisibelebath/Hot Lentil Rice
• Chickpea/Chole Biryani
• Cauliflower Pulao/Pilaf
• Beetroot Rice

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