How to Cook Tasty Aviyal Kerala-style

November 09, 2017 6:10am - 6 min read

Aviyal Kerala-style. Avial is a simple and delicious preparation with lots of vegetables, coconut, yogurt and seasoned with fresh curry leaves and coconut oil. This video explain how to make Aviyal/ avial Kerala Style. Aviyal is an important dish in onam sadhya.

Aviyal Kerala-style
Avial or Aviyal is a traditional side dish served as an accompaniment to rice. It is an easy to prepare vegetarian dish. A bloggers nightmare happened to me in the form of computer Avial is Kerala's special vegetarian dish. You can cook Aviyal Kerala-style using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Aviyal Kerala-style

  1. Prepare 3/4 cup of yam (suran) cut into long and wide strip.
  2. You need 1/2 cup of raw banana strips.
  3. It’s 1/2 cup of noolkol / kohlrabi strips.
  4. You need 1/2 cup of potato strips.
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup of carrot strips.
  6. Prepare 1/2 cup of beans cut in long strips and 1/2 cup avarakkai.
  7. Prepare 1/4 cup of green peas.
  8. It’s 1/2 cup of raw mango strips.
  9. It’s 1 1/2 cup of grated coconut.
  10. You need 1big tsp of jeera / cumin.
  11. Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
  12. You need 3-4 of green chillies.
  13. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
  14. You need 2-3 tbsp of coconut oil.
  15. You need To taste of Salt.
  16. It’s 5/7 of curry leaves.

It is a dish with a mixture of various. This avial has so much lovely flavour going in there. It has raw mangoes in it, which I got this recipe from my neighbour who is from kerala, so this is a typical keralan dish. Avial – Real Kerala Curry is a delicious blend of mixed veggies in coconut and yogurt mixture.

Aviyal Kerala-style instructions

  1. I used the cooker here. As I don't have a big traditional kal chatti..
  2. First add noolkol / kohlrabi in cooker. Add 3/4 cup of water and cook covered(use a plate to cover not cooker lid) on medium flame for 5 to 7 minutes as noolkol takes time to cook.Then add carrot, yam, raw banana and potato..
  3. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, curry leaves and mix well. Cook covered for 5 to 7 minutes or until vegetables are half cooked. Keep checking..
  4. Then add beans, avvarai, fresh green peas,raw mango and cook covered until it is cooked yet hold their shape. Take care not to cook them to a mush or over cook. If it will become mushy then aviyal will not be good..
  5. Meanwhile grind coconut, green chillies, jeera adding little water to a coarse paste..
  6. Now check the vegetables will be almost cooked.Add the grinded coconut mixture along with required salt. Without mixing cook covered(cover with plate don't use cooker lid) for 2 to 3 minutes.I added little water as I don't like too much dry aviyal..
  7. Mix the coconut mixture gently and remove from flame..
  8. In a small pan heat coconut oil and add mustard seeds and little hing. After it crackles add it to the Aviyal and mix gently.Then cover it..
  9. Delicious Aviyal is ready to serve..

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Last updated on: November 09, 2017 6:10am