Sunday, March 9, 2008

AVIAL RECIPE

Ingredients (For four persons)


Essential vegetables

200 gms White Pumpkin
200 gms Red Pumpkin
1 green Banana
100 gms Yam
1 big Drumstick

Optional Vegetables

100 gms String beans
100 gms Green karamani
100 gms Snake Gourd
200 gms Churned curd
10 green Chillies / or more as per individual taste
200 gms Scraped Coconut
Few sprigs Curry leaves
1 tbs Coconut oil

Preparation


Wash all the vegetables clean. Cut all the vegetables lengthwise to finger size. Cook it in heavy bottomed vessel with enough water (or) pressure cook all the vegetables for 20 minutes without the weight.
Grind the coconut with green chillies to fine paste. Add it to the cooked vegetables and boil the mixture for 10 min. Now add the churned curd to the Avial and boil for just enough time say for 1 to 2 minutes or else the curd will curdle and the Avial will be too thin. Add salt to taste. Add a sprig of curry leaves. Add one large tb of coconut oil to the Avial and keep aside.
Avial is ready and can be eaten with rice and fried pappadams or appalams and karuvadams.






1 comment:

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