Avial or Aviyal recipe Tamil nadu version – Mixed vegetables, cooked in coconut based gravy and mixed with yoghurt/ curd and flavored with coconut oil and curry leaves.
I rarely make aviyal, and there are two reasons for that…One is mostly because of the veggies, the next reason is I forget 😉
But I love the flavor of the dish! Mostly I make this as an accompaniment for rice along with vatral kuzhambu or kara kuzhambu or puli kuzhambu.
I have never made this with Adai, which is the most famous combo! But I don’t know, we are not much fascinated about that combination.
Any ways this recipe I simply followed from the cookbook my mom gave me. Came out nice!
Vj and me both of us love aviyal in a particular way. For both of us, the texture of the veggies is very important.
We don’t like the veggies getting mashed, and we love our any kootu with the veggis not mashed too much.
Especially Vj enjoys the texture very much along with the taste 🙂 So here’s the recipe for the aviyal I made.
And I am disclaiming this is not the aviyal recipe from Kerala… But a Tamil version that we make in our home. I assure you a great flavorful recipe 🙂
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Avial recipe Tamil Nadu style
Ingredients
- 2 cups Mixed veggies see procedure for details
- ¼ cup Curd whisked smoothly
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 tablespoon Coconut Oil
- 2 Green chilli slit
- Salt – As needed
To grind
- ¼ cup Coconut
- 2 Green chilli
- ¾ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ½ teaspoon Rice four
To temper
- 1 teaspoon Coconut oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- I used these vegetables for avial: drumstick, cluster beans, broad beans, beans, snake gourd, carrot, potato and plantain.
- Cut them into long strips kind of pieces.
- I boiled the first 4 vegetables above first, along with curry leaves.
- After that vegetables are half done, added rest of the other.
- I added plantain lastly as it takes less time to get cooked.
- You can pressure cook all the veggies together too for just two whistles with very little water.
- While the veggies get cooked, grind coconut, green chillies and rice flour with cumin seeds, little water, to a coarse paste.
- And add this coconut mixture to the cooked vegetables
- Let it come to boil. Remove from fire.
- Then add the well beaten curd.
- Mix in the curd and temper the aviyal with coconut oil, mustard and curry leaves.
- Finally add coconut oil raw as garnish.
Notes
- Ash gourd / poosanikkai / Vellai posani is also added in avial. You can make avial with simply carrot, beans, potato, drumstick, ash gourd alone too.
- Adding more plantain/ vazhakkai makes the avial dark in colour.
- You can use water washed out from rice (arisi mandi) for cooking veggies.
- Add mango in avial towards end and skip curd for a vegan version of aviyal.
Step by step photos
1. I used the veggies drumstick, cluster beans, broad beans, beans, snake gourd, carrot, potato and plantain.
2. Cut them into long strips kind of pieces
3. I first boiled the veggies in purple font above first, along with curry leaves and after those veggies are half done, then added rest of the other.
4. I added plantain lastly as it takes less time to get cooked. You can pressure cook all the veggies together too for just two whistles with very little water.
5. While the veggies get cooked, grind the coconut, green chillies and rice flour with jeera, little water, to grind coarsely.
6. And add this mixture to the cooked veggies.
7. Let it come to boil. Remove from fire. And add the well beaten curd.
8. Mix in the curd and temper the aviyal with coconut oil and curry leaves.(mustard if desired). Mix raw coconut oil, 2 teaspoon for extra flavor!
One more veggie I didn’t add was ash gourd since I didn’t had stock and its one of the considered veggie for aviyal. Serve as accompaniment for rice or Adai.
Tamila aviyalnu eluthi amrakalapaduthita….I luv this!!
Looks tempting…never made aviyal…shall try once…and love ur fonts in tamil now 😉
My Fav.Raks………..super
my family's alltime favourite.I too mae this in the similar way and the combo of veggies are quite new and sounds great.will try using these when i mae next time.
Very cooling recipe ..yeah even I dont like avial with adai …
Its perfect
looks awesome..my fav! I have it nei saadam, adai is not a fav combo for me too.
Looks awesome and tempting
Looks fantastic and the tamil font is so apt for a tamil dish 🙂
My fav one raji.. I can eat the whole avial without any other meal. Looks so yummy and with tamil font superb.
Yah even we two love the veggies to be crunchy and color to be maintained mostly, not to be mashed. Otherwise it spoils the taste of the whole dish.
u have a pleasant looking blog…good collection of recipes n really tempting pics…glad to follow u…do drop in at my blog sometime…
I loveee my mom's aviyal a lot.U reminded me..:) looks nice !!
Such an authentic dish, i love it..
I make Avial too and love them with Sambar and Appalam. I have tried Adai with Avial but did not like the combination like most claim to be the best.
Even I can never understand the adai-avial combination… but my best friend goes crazy about this combination… I must make avial soon… it will go awesome with some spicy dish on the side 🙂
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Aviyal looks excellent…raks…I make kerala version…I love this recipe plus I also add yam/chenai…
சூப்பர்ப்…அருமையான அவியல்…
very inviting..my favou dish..often make this at home..your presentation is so good..
lovely
this is my fist visit. My all time fav dish. My state fav dish. In Kerala each city their own style.
I like your style too.
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Thanks Rak.
Nice tempting dish….raaji i tried ur brinjal ….it came out very well:)
Its been ages since i made it too!!
Simple and delicious, one of my fav too and nice delicious way to eat all the veggies…
we love this…any thing with spicy yogurt…nice presentation
Nice Aviyal.Luks Perfect!!!I love it…
Perfect avial recipe. Loved the illustrative clicks as usual.
The aviyal looks perfect here…luv the click!
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what alovely medley of veggies you have used in this dish sounds delicious.
Looks delicious. Good presentation!
Its been a long time since i made this! I love aviyal for 3 reasons, its healthy with loads of veggies, so easy to make and coconut! I love anything with coconut!
love this..always a favourite at home..
My all time fav curry…Delicious combination with rice…
The photo looks amazing.I really feel like scooping a karandi of it. YUM!
I rarely make Aviyal because of my DH not so fond… Looks superb and delicious!
I love aviyal… and that looks really good. I don't make it very often too – only spl occasions or with adai.
thats a perfect looking avial I must say. very pretty set up too.
Looks fantastic and tempting.
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I love a good avial, your looks yummy!
Nice clicks …
We normally… make it similarly:)
Nice avial recipe. One of my fav. Lovely click.
We also make our Avial the same way except we dont add rice flour… Your Avial looks excellent
Wow. You have a wonderful blog. Avial looks super. Very happy to follow you….
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Your recipes are very special raks, simple and easy but very tasty. Idiyappam is one I make often now, and then this poriyal and now parotta. Pizza is on my menu next..may be the sweet kalkandu pongal also 😀
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The Avial looks like stue in color……. May be the combination works with taste….
Looks awesome! One question for you: I am on a low carb diet so rice flour is a no-no.. would it be acceptable if I used besan or urad flour instead? please let me know. thanks! 🙂
Sure you can use 🙂
Still, 1/2 tsp of rice lour also you cant consume?!!:) In the whole recipe only 1/2 tsp and I am not sure how much avial you are going to eat in that, I feel its ok for 1/2 tsp rice flour. If you want to omit also fine, no problem, you can omit the rice flour.
Wat. Veggies u
Add??
Raji what type of coconut oil do v need to use pls .. Since I love this combo I didn't get a chance to make it…please clear my doubt. Thanks.
I use our own coconut oil with the coconut that we give to Chekku for making oil.
Very Yummy Recipes for Vegetarian People
I just now started reading your blogs really interesting going to surprise my husband with different dishes daily
A good attempt but sorry Avial is NEVER tempered. I.e no mustard at all. Season with curry leaves.
I have mentioned as optional, it is purely my version
Lovely tasty aviyal recipe.I would like to know what is the brand of the glass vessel that you have used on gas top.Would be helpful for me to get it
Tasty delicious avail.I see the beautiful glass vessel used on the gas top.Where can I buy such vessels?Any brand name?
It is called VISIONS, kind of corningware.
Tried this recipe as my mentioned and it cane out great!! Everyone loved it! I love your recipes, they are pretty authentic and see super tasty!!!
thank you