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    Avial recipe, How to make aviyal

    Updated on November 8, 2021 by Raks Anand 60 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    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.

    aviyal
    Avial

    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!

    avial recipe
    avial or Aviyal is a medley of vegetables in coconut & Yogurt based gravy

    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

    Avial recipe Tamil nadu version - Mixed vegetables, cooked in coconut based gravy and mixed with yoghurt/ curd and flavored with coconut oil and curry leaves.
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine Indian, South Indian
    Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
    Servings 3
    Cup measurements

    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

    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
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    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.
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    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.

    boil veggies, grind coconut

    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.

    grind and add

    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!

    ready

    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.

    avial or Aviyal
    aviyal or avial

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    Comments

    1. Sharmilee! :)

      April 03, 2010 at 2:18 pm

      Tamila aviyalnu eluthi amrakalapaduthita....I luv this!!

      Reply
    2. Priti

      April 03, 2010 at 2:29 pm

      Looks tempting...never made aviyal...shall try once...and love ur fonts in tamil now 😉

      Reply
    3. Sailaja Damodaran

      April 03, 2010 at 2:37 pm

      My Fav.Raks...........super

      Reply
    4. jeyashrisuresh

      April 03, 2010 at 2:38 pm

      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.

      Reply
    5. Pavithra

      April 03, 2010 at 2:51 pm

      Very cooling recipe ..yeah even I dont like avial with adai ...

      Its perfect

      Reply
    6. Preeti Kashyap

      April 03, 2010 at 3:26 pm

      looks awesome..my fav! I have it nei saadam, adai is not a fav combo for me too.

      Reply
    7. shanthi

      April 03, 2010 at 3:38 pm

      Looks awesome and tempting

      Reply
    8. Nithya

      April 03, 2010 at 3:40 pm

      Looks fantastic and the tamil font is so apt for a tamil dish 🙂

      Reply
    9. Pavithra

      April 03, 2010 at 4:17 pm

      My fav one raji.. I can eat the whole avial without any other meal. Looks so yummy and with tamil font superb.

      Reply
    10. Pavithra

      April 03, 2010 at 4:24 pm

      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.

      Reply
    11. Jay

      April 03, 2010 at 4:49 pm

      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...

      Reply
    12. Chitra

      April 03, 2010 at 4:59 pm

      I loveee my mom's aviyal a lot.U reminded me..:) looks nice !!

      Reply
    13. Priya

      April 03, 2010 at 5:06 pm

      Such an authentic dish, i love it..

      Reply
    14. Cilantro

      April 03, 2010 at 6:00 pm

      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.

      Reply
    15. indhu

      April 03, 2010 at 6:11 pm

      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 🙂

      - Indhu(www.thayirsaadham.com)

      Reply
    16. Meena

      April 03, 2010 at 7:18 pm

      Aviyal looks excellent...raks...I make kerala version...I love this recipe plus I also add yam/chenai...

      Reply
    17. Geetha Achal

      April 03, 2010 at 10:01 pm

      சூப்பர்ப்...அருமையான அவியல்...

      Reply
    18. Nithu Bala

      April 03, 2010 at 10:46 pm

      very inviting..my favou dish..often make this at home..your presentation is so good..

      Reply
    19. Ammu Madhu

      April 04, 2010 at 12:41 am

      lovely

      Reply
    20. Vijis Kitchen

      April 04, 2010 at 1:25 am

      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.

      pls visit http://www.vijisvegkitchen.blogspot.com

      Thanks Rak.

      Reply
    21. Shobana senthilkumar

      April 04, 2010 at 1:29 am

      Nice tempting dish....raaji i tried ur brinjal ....it came out very well:)

      Reply
    22. Nags

      April 04, 2010 at 2:25 am

      Its been ages since i made it too!!

      Reply
    23. Sushma Mallya

      April 04, 2010 at 5:31 am

      Simple and delicious, one of my fav too and nice delicious way to eat all the veggies...

      Reply
    24. Shama Nagarajan

      April 04, 2010 at 5:40 am

      we love this...any thing with spicy yogurt...nice presentation

      Reply
    25. Premalatha Aravindhan

      April 04, 2010 at 5:41 am

      Nice Aviyal.Luks Perfect!!!I love it...

      Reply
    26. Ms.Chitchat

      April 04, 2010 at 6:24 am

      Perfect avial recipe. Loved the illustrative clicks as usual.

      Reply
    27. Supriya Nair

      April 04, 2010 at 10:43 am

      The aviyal looks perfect here...luv the click!

      Reply
    28. Priya

      April 04, 2010 at 1:46 pm

      pls collect the award from my blog..

      Reply
    29. simply.food

      April 04, 2010 at 5:34 pm

      what alovely medley of veggies you have used in this dish sounds delicious.

      Reply
    30. Nutan

      April 05, 2010 at 2:36 am

      Looks delicious. Good presentation!

      Reply
    31. Parita

      April 05, 2010 at 5:21 am

      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!

      Reply
    32. sowmya's creative saga

      April 05, 2010 at 8:18 am

      love this..always a favourite at home..

      Reply
    33. Tina

      April 05, 2010 at 1:44 pm

      My all time fav curry...Delicious combination with rice...

      Reply
    34. Srimathi

      April 05, 2010 at 5:21 pm

      The photo looks amazing.I really feel like scooping a karandi of it. YUM!

      Reply
    35. Cham

      April 05, 2010 at 6:17 pm

      I rarely make Aviyal because of my DH not so fond... Looks superb and delicious!

      Reply
    36. Laavanya

      April 05, 2010 at 6:42 pm

      I love aviyal... and that looks really good. I don't make it very often too - only spl occasions or with adai.

      Reply
    37. A Homemakers Diary

      April 06, 2010 at 10:33 am

      thats a perfect looking avial I must say. very pretty set up too.

      Reply
    38. deepa

      April 06, 2010 at 12:48 pm

      Looks fantastic and tempting.

      Deepa
      Hamaree Rasoi

      Reply
    39. veggie belly

      April 06, 2010 at 4:51 pm

      I love a good avial, your looks yummy!

      Reply
    40. Sandhya Hariharan

      April 06, 2010 at 5:05 pm

      Nice clicks ...
      We normally... make it similarly:)

      Reply
    41. SpicyTasty

      April 07, 2010 at 1:54 am

      Nice avial recipe. One of my fav. Lovely click.

      Reply
    42. AdukalaVishesham

      April 07, 2010 at 8:57 pm

      We also make our Avial the same way except we dont add rice flour... Your Avial looks excellent

      Reply
    43. Suhaina

      April 08, 2010 at 1:10 am

      Wow. You have a wonderful blog. Avial looks super. Very happy to follow you....
      If time permits kindly visit my blog
      http://www.mysingaporekitchen.blogspot.com

      Reply
    44. Ruchikacooks

      April 08, 2010 at 2:52 am

      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 😀

      http://ruchikacooks.com

      Reply
    45. Brief Description

      February 18, 2013 at 3:11 am

      The Avial looks like stue in color....... May be the combination works with taste....

      Reply
    46. Pooja

      August 02, 2013 at 1:43 am

      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! 🙂

      Reply
    47. Raks anand

      August 02, 2013 at 1:46 am

      Sure you can use 🙂

      Reply
    48. Raks anand

      August 02, 2013 at 1:48 am

      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.

      Reply
    49. sharmi

      January 10, 2014 at 11:28 am

      Wat. Veggies u
      Add??

      Reply
    50. lakshmi

      March 26, 2014 at 3:56 am

      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.

      Reply
    51. Raks anand

      March 26, 2014 at 3:58 am

      I use our own coconut oil with the coconut that we give to Chekku for making oil.

      Reply
    52. Sangeetha Duraisamy

      October 18, 2014 at 2:14 pm

      Very Yummy Recipes for Vegetarian People

      Reply
    53. priya nisanth

      March 10, 2016 at 1:32 am

      I just now started reading your blogs really interesting going to surprise my husband with different dishes daily

      Reply
    54. Unknown

      August 03, 2016 at 6:47 am

      A good attempt but sorry Avial is NEVER tempered. I.e no mustard at all. Season with curry leaves.

      Reply
    55. Raks anand

      August 03, 2016 at 7:45 am

      I have mentioned as optional, it is purely my version

      Reply
    56. Meena Somu

      February 17, 2018 at 11:59 pm

      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

      Reply
    57. Meena Somu

      February 17, 2018 at 11:59 pm

      Tasty delicious avail.I see the beautiful glass vessel used on the gas top.Where can I buy such vessels?Any brand name?

      Reply
    58. Raks Kitchen

      February 19, 2018 at 4:49 am

      It is called VISIONS, kind of corningware.

      Reply
    59. U N

      August 26, 2020 at 3:22 am

      5 stars
      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!!!

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        August 26, 2020 at 2:43 pm

        thank you

        Reply

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