Avial
Avial is a healthy and light curry best paired with fried poori or rice.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Mixed vegetables:
- ½ cup carrots cut length wise
- ½ cup chopped elephant yam/potato
- ½ cup drumsticks/moringa peeled and cut into pieces
- ½ cup chopped zucchini/okra/any vegetable
- ½ cup beans optional
- 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 chilly
- ¾ th 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 along with salt.
- 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.
Notes
Note: Any beans,melon can be added as per your choice.
Instead of yogurt, you can use coconut milk or coconut curd.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 use coconut milk or coconut curd.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