TRICHUR AVIAL

Serves 5-6

Cooking time 25mins

Ingredients

Long Beans-4

Vellarikka(Cucumber)-1/4 cup

Yam(chena)-1/4 cup

Padavalanga(snake gourd)-1/4 cup

Potatoes—1/4 cup

Carrots--1/4 cup

Beans---1/4 cup

Drumsticks—1/4 cup

Turmeric Powder-1/2tsp

Green chilly -4

Curry Leaves-few

Coconut Oil-2 tbsp

Curd-1/2 cup

Salt-to taste

Small Onions -8nos

Cumin seeds(jeera)-1/2tsp

Grated Coconut -1

Method

1)  At first wash and cut all the vegetables length wise that is about 1 inch length.

2)  Heat 1 table spoon of oil and add all vegetables and sauce for 5 minutes.

3)  Then add, Chillipowder, add turmeric powder, salt, curryleaves, green chilli slits (2) 1tsp of coconut oil. Mix well.

4)  Close the kadai and cook the vegetables in a medium heat.Stir Occasionally.

5)  Crush cumin and Small onions and remaining green chilli d curry leaves.

6)  Add this to the grated coconut and mix well with hand. You can add pinch of turmeric powder and salt to this and mix.We don`t want our coconut mix to become a fine paste. It should be like we blend for thoran.

7)  With a fork mix the curd to loosen up the lumps.Add this curd to the cooked vegetables

8)  And cook for 5 minutes.

9)  Then add coconut mix and gently mix.

10)           Then using a spoon gently press the avial and cook for few minutes in low flame till the steam comes.

11)           At this time if u want u can add crushed onion and green chilli on the top (opt)

12)           Finally sprinkle coconut oil and few chopped curry leaves

13)           Close the pan immediately and let it be like this 5 to 10 minutes.

14)           Then mix well and serve.

Note: The spice is entirely depending up on the chilli u use, so change the amount of chilli accordingly ..and same with curd also. We prefer sour curd for making avail.

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