Avial recipe | Aviyal recipe | Easy veg curry recipe
Avial recipe | Aviyal recipe | Easy veg curry recipe with detailed step by step instructions with pictures and video recipe below.
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What is Avial | Aviyal
Avial / Aviyal is the best side dish for rice. It is a simple, tasty and healthy recipe that is prepared using a lot of vegetables like brinjal, drumstick, cucumber, carrot, raw banana, potato, elephant yam, snake gourd, cluster beans and coconut. Avial / Aviyal is a South Indian recipe that is served with rice. It is a famous recipe in Kanyakumari. In Kerala, the Avial recipe is slightly different. They use curd in this recipe. It is a slightly sour taste and it goes well with rice. You can also check other rice side dish recipes like
In South India, there will be seven to eleven Curry and Poriyal recipes with rice at weddings and other special occasions. The most important of these is Avial. Avial will definitely present in a vegetarian recipe on special occasions. Avial is one of the recipes which is present on special occasions in South India. Other important recipes are Inji Kootu / Ginger curry, Vellarika Pachadi/ Cucumber Pachadi or Beetroot Pachadi or White pumpkin / Kumbalanka Pachadi, Onion raita, Cabbage Poriyal, Avarakai Poriyal, Potato curry, Paruppu curry, Sambar, Rasam, Buttermilk, Papadam, Mango pickle or Lemon pickle, Narthankai/ Narangai Kootu and one or two sweet recipes also present. You can also check other categories like
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Avial recipe | Aviyal recipe | Easy veg curry recipe
Ingredients
Vegetables for avial
- 2 big size Brinjal
- 1 Drumstick
- 1 small piece Cucumber
- 1 Carrot
- 1 Raw banana
- 1 Potato
- 1 small piece Elephant yam
- 1 small piece Snake gourd
- 5 Cluster beans
- 3 Green chilly
For coconut paste
- 1 cup Coconut
- Gooseberry size Tamarind
- 5 pods garlic
- ½ tsp Chilly powder
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Jeera powder
Other Ingredients
- 2 tsp Oil
- ¼ tsp Mustard seeds
- few Curry leaves
- 1 cup Water
- Salt (As needed)
Instructions
- Take water in a bowl, chop all the vegetables lengthwise and kept it in water for few minutes.
- Wash and drain out all water from vegetables.
- In a blender, add coconut, garlic, chilly powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder and tamarind grind it coarsely.
- Add grinded coconut into the vegetables and mix well.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Then add all vegetables, water and salt.
- Cover this and cook for 5 minutes in high flame.
- After 5 minutes stir well, cover and cook for few minutes in low flame until no water in it.
- Tasty Avial is ready to serve with rice.
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Avial recipe with step by step pictures:
1.Take water in a bowl, chop all the vegetables lengthwise and kept it in water for few minutes.
2.Wash and drain out all water from vegetables.
3.In a blender, add coconut, garlic, chilly powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder and tamarind grind it coarsely.
4.Add grinded coconut into the vegetables and mix well.
5.Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Then add all vegetables, water and salt.
6.Cover this and cook for 5 minutes in high flame.
7.After 5 minutes stir well, cover and cook for few minutes in low flame until no water in it.
8.Tasty Avial is ready to serve with rice.
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Keywords to understand
Ingredients Other Words
| Brinjal | Katharikai, baingan |
| Drumstick | Murungaikai, dhol ka chhadee |
| Cucumber | Velarikai, kheera |
| Raw banana | Valaikai, Kachha kela |
| Potato | Urulaikkilanku, aaloo |
| Elephant yam | Senaikilanku, Jimikand |
| Snake gourd | pudalankai, chichinda |
| Cluster beans | Avaraikai, ganvaar phalee |
| Green chilly | Paccai milakay, haree mirch |
| Coconut | Tenkay, naariyal |
| Tamarind | Puli, imalee |
| Garlic | Puntu, lahasun |
| Chilly powder | milakay tul, mirch paudar |
| Turmeric powder | mancal tul, haldee paudar |
| Jeera powder | jira tul, jeera paudar |
| Salt | Uppu, namak |
| Mustard seeds | katuku vitaikal, sarason ke beej |
| Curry leaves | Kariveppilai, karee patte |
Note
1.You can skip the vegetable which you don’t have.
2.Add water depending on the quantity of the vegetables you use.
3.Don’t grind the coconut into a smooth paste.
4.Don’t smash the vegetables.
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easy and nice recipe