Monday 10 February 2014

Kerala Recipe:- How to prepare Aviyal

Aviyal is a very nutritious food as it is prepared using many vegetables. Here lets see how to prepare authentic kerala aviyal.

Ingredients

Vegitables:-
Carrot - 1
Beans - 5
Vellarikka - A small piece  (Lauki can be used instead of vellarikka)
Drumstick - 1
onion - 1
Payar / lobia - 3
Tomato - 1
Green chilli - 3
Kunduru / kovakka - 3

For Grinding:-
curry leaves - 1 spring
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Jeera - 1 tsp
Curd - 1 cup
Onion - 1/2 piece (You can use small onion as well)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp


Wash and cut all the vegetables lengthwise into small pieces say 1/2 inch thickness. Pressure cook these vegetables with little water, salt and turmeric. Don't overcook the vegetables.

Now grind grated coconut, jeera, green chilli, onion in a grinder with curd. No need to grind it to a fine paste. Just grind it little bit and keep it aside.

Heat the pressure cooker and add this ground mixture to the cooked vegetables stir it continuously. Add some curry leaves to this. Don't add water. Let it boil for five minutes. Stir it in between. Once it is done switch off and add little bit oil on the top and cover it.

The aviyal is ready to be served with rice.



Notes:- The aviyal will get thick easily.

Tips:-
You can add any vegetable of your choice except beetroot.
You can add raw mango to the aviyal. In that case don't add curd. Cook raw mango with the vegetables itself.
The common vegetable which can be used for preparing aviyal are elephant yam/chena, raw plantain/ pachakaya, snake gourd/padavalanga etc.



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