Avial recipe

Avial recipe

Ingredients

• Carrot - 50 gm
• Yam (chena) - 100 gm
• Cucumber (vellarika) - 100 gm
• Yard long beans (achinga payar) - 50 gm
• Snake gourd (padavalanga) - 100 gm
• Raw banana - 50 gm
• Drumstick (murungakai) - 100gm
• Green chilly - 50 gm
• Green mango - 2 pieces
• Curry leaves - 2 strings
• Coconut grated - 300gm
• Coconut oil - 200gm
• Cumin seed (jeerakam) - 1 tsp
• Curd - 25 ml
• Ash gourd (Kumbalanga) - 100 gm
• Turmeric powder - 3/4 tsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Shallots (small onion) - 5 nos
• Water - 1 cup
• Salt to taste

Method

Step 1

Clean and cut all the vegetables lengthwise of 1/2 inch thickness.

Step 2

Take a pan add carrot, chena, cucumber, yard long beans, snake goard, raw banana, drumstick, green mango, ash gourd, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt, water and 75 ml of coconut oil. Cook for 7 minutes.

Step 3

Grind coconut, cumin seed, green chillies, shallots in a blender.

Step 4

Add this coconut mixture and curd to the cooked vegetables and cook for 4 minutes.

Step 5

Finally add coconut oil and curry leaves to the vegetable mixture. The delicious kerala avial is ready to be served .