kerala style avial | kerala avial recipe
Avial is a healthy and light curry best paired with fried poori or rice.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- saucepan
- Blender
Ingredients
Mixed vegetables:
- ½ cup carrots cut length wise
- ½ cup elephant yam/potato chopped
- ½ cup drumsticks/moringa peeled and cut into pieces
- ½ cup zucchini/okra/any vegetable chopped
- ½ cup french beans chopped
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Salt as per taste
- 2 cup water
- 2 tablespoon curd or yogurt (Replace curd with lemon juice or coconut curd if you want to make it vegan)
For coconut paste:
- ½ tablespoon cumin seeds
- green chilies
- ¾ cup freshly grated coconut use ¼ cup coconut milk if using dry coconut
For tempering:
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Few curry leaves
Instructions
- Boil water with salt and turmeric in a pan. Add all the chopped vegetables.
- Boil the hard vegetables first, then the softer ones. Cook until soft.
- Make sure you do not overcook the vegetables.
- Mix the cooked vegetables with coconut paste.
- Heat oil in a pan for tempering. add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Add to above vegetables.Turn off the heat and add curd after 5 mins.
- Serve fresh with rice or malabar parota.
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Notes
Note: Any beans,melon can be added as per your choice.
Instead of yogurt, you can make avial with coconut milk or coconut curd also.If you like it sour,add a dash of lime while serving.
You cannot boil this curry as then curd,veggies and water will separate.Hence have it fresh or reheat to a minimum.
Instead of yogurt, you can make avial with coconut milk or coconut curd also.If you like it sour,add a dash of lime while serving.
You cannot boil this curry as then curd,veggies and water will separate.Hence have it fresh or reheat to a minimum.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g