AVIAL | KERALA STYLE AVIAL | MIXED VEG CURRY

Avial is a rich Kerala heritage recipe. It is usually served as side dish with accompaniment to rice. It is a mixture of vegetables and coconut. One specialty of this food is, it is seasoned with edible coconut oil at the end.

Avial is actually both Kerala cuisine as well as Tamil Nadu cuisine. Kerala dishes are famous for its own flavor. Their dishes are made with more use of coconut. It is an integral part in every keralite  feasts and is one of the staple food in Kerala homes. Avial is considered to be the healthiest dish.

This dish tastes very different for the first bite to non-keralites or non-tamilians who have never tasted any dish that use coconut oil. Actually this happened to me when i had avial for the first time, 6 years back ,in my neighbors family function. Trust me you start liking it in later bites.

Avial Recipe

Serves : 3-4

Ingredients

Raw banana - half, sliced
Drumstick - 1, chopped (2 inch)
French beans - 4, chopped(2 inch)
Carrot - 1, chopped (2 inch)
Potato - 1, chopped (2 inch)
[i have used only these vegetables, actual avial recipe includes Elephant foot yam and ash gourd]
Green chilli - 2, slit
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Cumin seeds - half tsp
Curd - half cup
Onion - 1 medium
Curry leaves - 1 strand
Coconut oil - One and half tbsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Salt to taste,water

Method

1. Pressure cook all vegetables, slit chillies, salt, a pinch turmeric with enough water
2. Crush the onions in mortar and pestle and mix it with coconut oil and keep aside
3. grind grated coconut and cumin seed along with little water coarsely.
4. add this grounded paste to cooked vegetables along with curry leaves and salt (if required) and cook on low flame for about 3-4 mins
5. add curd, mix well and bring down from flame
6. now add onion and coconut oil mixture, mix well and serve

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