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Aviyal recipe, How to make aviyal

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Aviyal / 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.
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 donno , 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 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 may not be the authentic aviyal recipe from Kerala… But the tamil version that we make at home. I assure you a great flavorful recipe 🙂
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Aviyal recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Side dish
Prep Time: 15 mins    |  Cook time: 15 mins    |  Serves: 4

Ingredients

Mixed veggies(see procedure for details) – 2 cups

Curd – 1/4 cup

Curry leaves – 1 sprig

Coconut Oil – 1 tsp

Green chilli slit – 2

Salt – As needed

To grind

Coconut – 1/4 cup

Green chilli – 2

Cumin seeds/jeera – 3/4 tsp

Rice four – 1/2 tsp

To temper

Coconut oil – 1 tsp

Curry leaves – 1 sprig

Mustard,optional – 1 tsp

Method:

  1. I used the veggies drumstick,cluster beans,broad beans,beans,snake gourd,carrot,potato and plantain.Cut them into long strips kind of pieces
  2. 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..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 the coconut,green chillies and rice flour with jeera, little water, to grind coarsely.

    3. how to prepare avial 1

  3. And add this mixture to the cooked veggies.

    4. how to prepare avial 2

  4. Let it come to boil. Remove from fire. And add the well beaten curd.

    5. how to prepare avial 3

  5. Mix in the curd and temper the aviyal with coconut oil and curry leaves.(mustard if desired). Mix raw coconut oil, 2 tsp for extra flavor!

    6. how to prepare avial 4

Notes
  • 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.

One more veggie I din’t add was ash gourd since I dint had…and its one of the considered veggie for aviyal.
Serve as accompaniment for rice or Adai. avial-recipe

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  10. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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)

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  31. 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!

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  46. 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! 🙂

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  48. 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.

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  50. 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.

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