Purple Cabbages added more colour to already colourful dishes! Bro made pickles too | Traditional Me

Our elder aunt’s husband hails from the Sri Lankan hill country town of Welimada. All his relatives are from Nuwara Eliya ( The most picturesque and coldest mountainous city that is surrounded by lush green mountains and high cold waterfalls, in Sri Lanka). When we were young, we used to like visiting Nuwara Eliya due to the hot weather in our hamlet of Dankotuwa. I suppose primarily because Nuwara Eliya’s ice-cold weather and daylong mist-covered city, made for a very enjoyable experience for us. Elder uncle made Dankotuwa his second home because there is plenty of land for vegetable farming. The elder uncle’s relatives from Nuwara Eliya visit their home in Dankotuwa once or twice a year. They always bring fresh vegetables that are cultivated exclusively in Nuwara-Eliya like Purple cabbage, Red turnip, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Rhubarb, Broad beans, Lettuce, Kale leaves and so and so, when they visit our uncle and his family because those vegetables are not typical and are not grown in our village due to climatic conditions. They came to see our aunt and uncle again this year ahead of the Sri Lankan new year.

Our brother always hangs out with the Nuwara Eliya crowd when they visit. Every time they bring vegetables to our aunt and uncle, they also send us half of those same vegetables. But this time, things were a little odd because our brother had just brought only Purple cabbage from our aunt’s house. I inquired about the purple cabbages out of curiosity, and he replied that he is going to make a salad for our aunt and family too. To prepare that salad, the cabbage must first be pickled by immersed in water that has been boiled with vinegar, salt and the required spices. I used to get one or two cabbages from the store on other days and make this salad. But this time there were lots of cabbages. Along with beetroots, brother had also created another version of a pickle. Since my brother did the pickling part, I only had to make the salad. For a little twist I added pineapples and fried dates and blackcurrants to give it more flavours and colours,

I prepared rice for lunch in the afternoon by combining purple cabbage. I used the juice from butterfly pea flowers (nil-katarolu) to colour the rice blue. The combination of white and blue rice pearls was stunning and vibrant. The purple cabbage chunks significantly improved both the colour and flavour of this unusual rice. I prepared fish red curry, tempered dhal curry and tomato salad as side dishes. Actually, colourfulness and great taste are always a must at any lunch or dinner table. Those colours bring pleasing tastes to the eyes as well-incorporated spices enhance any curry in the art of cooking.

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Purple Cabbages added more colour to already colourful dishes! Bro made pickle too!

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