Avial

Avial

It is lent now, so thought of posting something vegetarian. And at last I thought of avial!! I was wondering why I didn’t post this since I started this blog a year back. Everything has a time and this might be the right time. In this recipe you can add tomato, raw mango, tamarind or curd for the sour taste. Here I have added tomato and a little curd. Jyotsna I would like to share this recipe especially to you as last time when we met you asked me the recipe!!

 

Ingredients

• Yam, carrots, snake gourd, pumpkin , tomato, cucumber, long beans, drumsticks, brinjal kovakka (tindora) -1/2 cup each cut into long strips
• Green chili silted -2
• Curry leaves -4 sprigs
• Chili powder-1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder- ½ tsp
•  Salt to taste
• For grinding
• Grated coconut-2 cups
• Cumin 1 tsp
• Shallots -2
• Coconut oil-1 tbsp.
• Curd -1 to 2 tbsp.

Method

• Cook all the vegetables with a cup of water green chilies, two sprigs of curry leaves, turmeric powder, chili powder and salt to taste.
• Grind coarsely grated coconut, cumin and shallots. Add this to the cooked vegetables.
• Mix well and finally add coconut oil, curd and the remaining curry leaves and take it in a serving bowl.

Note- put yam and brinjal after cutting in water so the color won’t change.

Add curd after checking the sourness.