AVIYAL
Just to share with you…..
Aviyal is a traditional Kerala dish. It has lot of vegetables in it. Aviyal again is a dish prepared with as many vegetables as one can get. There is a legend about this dish. The maharaja of Travencore used to perform Murajapam everyyear, a vedic seminar, in which a large number of vedic scholars participated. One year it so happened that there was no vegetables left on the last day of the Murajapam.. Only few pieces of various vegetables left over from the previous days were available. The cook cut all the left overs into long thin pieces and prepared “Aviyal.” The king liked the dish so much and presented him with a gold bracelet so much and ordered that this dish be served every year since then. All vegetables go in it, except perhaps, some mushy vegetables, like, tomato, brinjal, ladies fingers, cabbage, cauliflower, beetroot (it stains the dish), radish, turnip, onion, sweet potato, etc..
NOTE: All vegeatables are not must . If you have atleast 4 or 5 you can make this Aviyal.
Ingredients
- Raw banana or plaintain ( Valakkai) – 1
- Elephant yam(Chenakilangu) – 1 cu Carrots(big) – 1
- Drumstick(Muringakka) – 1
- Potato (peeled but not cooked) – 1/2 cup
- Beans – 5
- Green chillies – 4 or as reqd
- Raw mango – 1 slice(optional)
- Turmeric powder – 2 tsp
- Yellow Pumpkin -1/2 cup
- Avarakkai – ½ cup
- Seppankilangu -1/2 cup
- Coconut Oil – 2 tsp
- Salt – As reqd
For grinding:-
- Grated coconut – 2 cups
- Cumin seeds(Jeerakam) – 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves – 1 sprig
- Small onions(Kunjulli) – 8 nos
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Curd – 1/4 cup
PREPARATION
- Cut all the vegetables lengthwise of 1/2 inch thickness.
- Cook vegetables with water, salt and turmeric powder.
Add turmeric powder only when the water with vegetables starts boiling. - Grind together the coconut, cumin seeds, curry leaves, small onions and a little curd(as mango can be sour enough).
- Once the vegetables are cooked, add the ground paste.
Cook, till the raw coconut is cooked. - Do not over cook, as the whole mix will dry up. Once cooked, add oil and mix well.
TIPS
You can add tamarind instead of curd.
