Avial

Avial is made with a combo many vegetables, beans, yam, pumpkin- both white and yellow, raw banana, drum sticks, potato, carrot and veges that one may like. It's a specialty both in Tamil Nadu and in Kerala. It is a must in many festivals and marriage.

Ingredients

50 gm Beans  

50 gm Carrot

 50 gm Potato  

50 gm white pumpkin

50 gm Yam  

50 gm yellow pumpkin

1-2  Drum Sticks cut into 3" long pieces

raw banana 1

 4-5 Green Chilies as per taste  

curry leaves 2-3 sprigs

Salt to taste  

1 Cup Grated Coconut

1/4 tsp Jeera  

curd  1/4 cup 

coconut oil 1 tbsp

 

Method

Wash and cut all vegetables thin slices about 2" long / 1/2 cm thick. Pressure  cook the vegetables adding  salt and curry leaves with enough water till vegetables are tender.

Grind the coconut, jeera and green chilies into a coarse paste and add the mixture to the cooked vegetables and mix well. Heat it on a low flame for 2 - 3 minutes.

Add curd (lightly beaten) to this and mix. Remove from fire, garnish with coconut oil and curry leaves and close the lid. 

 

This is served along with rice, sambar, rasam, dry vege usually. Some people like avial with adai also.

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