AVIYAL RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:

Carrot - 2
Beans - 6
Peas - 1/4 cup
Drumstick - 1
Broad beans/ avraikai - 3
Plantain - 1/2
White Pumpkin - 1/2 cup
Curd - 2 tsp
Salt

To grind
Coconut - 1 cup
Green chilly - 2
Rice flour - 2 tsp
Cumin - 1 tsp

For Seasoning
Coconut oil - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 leaflet

METHOD:
1. Cut all vegetables to medium sized cubes and soak peas for 4 hours.
2. Pressure cook all vegetables to 2 whistles on high flame with salt except white pumpkin and plantain.
3. In a tawa, add little water and cook pumpkin and plantain separately and keep aside.

4. Grind coconut, green chilly, rice flour and cumin to a fine paste.
5. After the pressure reduces, open the cooker add cooked pumpkin and plantain, mix well.
6. Add the paste and cook for 2 to 3 minutes and switch of the flame.
7. Heat coconut oil in a pan and roast the curry leaves and add to the avaiyal.
8. Add curd and mix well.
9. Tasty Avaiyal is ready.
10. It goes well with adai, rice, chapatthi and dosa.

Note:

• If to be done in Kerala style, avoid rice flour while grinding the paste and also cook the vegetables with little water so that the avaiyal will be thick.