Cabbage Masala
One of the keys to a successful Candida diet is using lots of herbs and spices to make delicious meals.
This curry is a great example. It uses mustard seeds, cumin, turmeric and garam masala to create a tasty dish that’s absolutely full of flavor. It’s gluten-free, sugar-free, and full of healthy, nutritious ingredients.
It’s also a great recipe to enjoy during the initial Candida cleanse that forms part of the Candida diet.
Cabbage is particularly useful for Candida sufferers because of the way that it helps to repair the intestinal membrane. That’s why we recommend cabbage juice as a gut repair agent in our Candida treatment protocol.
Incorporating more cabbage into your diet will help to repair some of the damage done by a chronic Candida infection.
This recipe is for a vegetarian masala but you can easily adapt it by adding organic proteins like chicken or beef. It makes for a tasty, filling dinner, and you might even be able to enjoy some delicious leftovers the next day!
- ½ head of cabbage
- 1 large onion
- 2 large tomatoes
- ¾ cup okra
- 5 garlic cloves
- 3 Tbsp. coconut oil
- 1 tsp. mustard seeds
- 1 tsp. cumin powder
- 1 tsp. garam masala
- ¼ tsp. turmeric
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- Finely slice the cabbage, onion, tomatoes, okra and garlic cloves, then set them aside.
- Heat some oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. Once they pop, add the sliced garlic cloves and cook until slightly soft. Next, add the onion and cook until soft. Lastly, add the turmeric powder, garam masala, and cumin powder, and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Now add the tomatoes to the pan. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
- Lastly, add the cabbage, okra, and salt. Cook for a further 15 minutes.
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What type of oil is good for candida normal vegetable cooking oil or extra virgin cooking oil?
Extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil are the two best oils to cook with.
Once you have all the ingredients, this recipe was easy and delicious!
Delicious! I added extra of the seasonings at the end to add a little more punch in the flavors.
I made this recipe with the following slight modifications, which are essential to flavor blending. This destroys more of the nutrients, so consider that as well.
Roasted the cabbage/onion for 1/ 2 hour in large pot, lower heat is easier on the coconut oil.
Roast the garlic slowly in small cast iron skillet with 2 TBSP coconut oil. After done, toss in spices to roast for about 10 seconds, then flash the pan with a 1/4 cup water to stop the spices from overcooking and burning.
Then, just toss the garlic/spice mixture in the big pot, stir it all up.
1 large can of fire roasted tomatoes.
Add protein of choice.
Last into the pot, I replaced okra with frozen peas. Nobody likes overcooked peas. When the peas are slightly cooked, the dish is done.
This recipe is a real winner, in my opinion.
Very good recipe, the flavours are amazing. I ended up adding a little cilantro and a pod of habanero as well. Would definitely make this again, and I appreciated something so good during the initial detox phase of the candida diet. The only thing I would have changed is to specify what level of heat to use during cooking. I started at medium-high and reduced to medium the onions were softened.