Ingredients: (to serve 2):
Carrots: 2 small
Beans: 10
Raw banana (vazhakka): 1 small
Drumstick: 1
Brinjal: 2
Tomato: 1 big
Cucumber: 1 small
Ivy Gourd (kovakka): 6
Raw mango: 1
Green chillies: 6
Freshly grated coconut: ½ cup
Jeera powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Curry leaves: 2 strands
Onions: ½ finely chopped
Coconut oil: 3 tablespoons
Curd: 3 tablespoons
Salt: to taste
How to make Aviyal:
1. Put the hard-to-cook vegetables together (carrots, beans, drumsticks, green chillies, mango, ivy gourd) with water just to cover them and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder. Cook till the vegetables begin to turn soft. This will take 10-12 minutes.
2. Add the rest of the vegetables (cucumber, onions, tomatoes, brinjal) and cook for another 5 minutes.
3. Uncover and keep on fire till the excess water has evaporated.
4. Grind coconut with jeera and some curry leaves.
5. Add to the cooked vegetables, with salt, and mix well, making sure the the vegetables are not mashed together.
6. After 2 minutes, remove from fire, add the coconut oil, curry leaves and mix again.
7. Finally, add the curd, mix well and keep aside.
Aviyal goes well with rice and kerala vegetable sambar.
Reena
This aviyal looks so appetizing. Isn't this the best way to get all the veggies together at one go? 😉 Beautiful picture
Anonymous
Nice blog, Nagalakshmi!
BZ
Macabreday
nice blog.. will be visiting more often 🙂
Richa
hey the pic looks so colorful! aviyal is such an all time fav right!! thanks for ur recipe
3inone
Imagine - I get to eat aviyal at least twice a week and I don't even like it all that much. But you had me drooling all the same. Nice blog.
N
Bharathy and Toothless - Thanks a ton! btw, prats did not help me at all except to cut the drumsticks!
Ayeesh - thank u so much for ur lovely comment 😀
Anony - you are back!! i was beginning to worry! thanks a ton for ur visit and your comment!
Anonymous
I thought i should not comment for the next 13 posts:).But Aviyaaal...You are also spoling people like me by making all the good things in the world and by takn sexy photos of it.(i wanna go home!!!)
Many thanks for posting our national dish Aviyal.Aviyal certainly needs attention cos it is the best recepie that we have in GOC.
Anony
Ayesha Seerin
Lovely pics ... Its making me hungry 🙁
Bharathy.
Great recipe..I am sure Prats having a tough time with you in the weekends,helping you out in many ways;)..Pass credits to her too..
Mouth watering pics..!!!
Toothlesswink
😀 neat pics!