Avial
spicequeen @mrunalthakkar
Avial is a type of thick stew from the southern part of India. It has different kinds of vegetables which are cooked along with fresh coconut and few spices. This is a very simple and flavourful dish which goes perfectly well with steamed rice and sambhar.
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- 1
Add one cup of water in a pan and start heating it. Now add suran, drumstick, and green beans to it first as it takes more time to cook. Add curry leaves, turmeric, and salt, and give everything a good mix. Cover and cook it until everything is half cooked. Now add the remaining vegetables and again cover and cook it until just done, do not overcook it.
- 2
To prepare the coconut paste, add coconut, cumin, and green chilies along with some water in a mixer jar and grind it to a little coarse paste.
- 3
Now add the paste to the vegetables and mix everything well. Cook it for 5 minutes on medium heat. Whisk the yoghurt and add it to the curry and turn off the heat. This is a thick curry but if you prefer, you can add little water to adjust the consistency.
- 4
For tempering, heat coconut oil in a tadka pan and add mustard seeds. When it crackles, add urad dal, red chili, curry leaves, and hing to it. when urad dal is light pink in colour, pour the tadka over the prepared curry.
- 5
Serve avial with steamed rice and sambhar.
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