Kerala dish - Aviyal recipe

 Kerala dish - Aviyal 

Ingredients:

Vegetables - elephant yam, plantain, pumpkin, carrots, beans, Brinjal,cucumber, drum sticks, snake gourd etc:-. (the north Keralan Avial includes bitter gourd also) - 4 cups

Green chili slit lengthwise - 4 Nos

Salt - To taste

Curry Leaves - few strands

Tomatoe - 1 large or Curd - ½ to 3/4 cup yogurt or green mangoe- half

Coconut Oil

To Grind

Grated coconut - 2 cups

Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon

Green chilli - 4 to 5

Garlic - 3 to 4 cloves

Shallot – 5 nos.

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoon

Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Instructions:

Chop all the vegetables lengthwise, around 2 inches in length.

Cook all vegetables except mango / tomatoes with just enough water, turmeric powder and salt. Do not mix with spoon, instead shake the whole pan, so that the vegetables holds its cut shape.

Mean while in a food processor coarsely grind grated coconut, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, garlic, green chilies and few curry leaves.

Add the ground mix with the mangoes or tomatoes to the top of the cooked vegetables. (if you are adding yogurt add it now).

Cook in low fire for a minute and remove from fire.

Drizzle a table spoon of coconut oil and some curry leaves and serve warm.

By- Prachi Karekar, Stuttgart