Palakad Aviyal

Aviyal recipe 

Ingredients 

Ashgourd – 100 gms
Pumpkin – 100gms
Raw banana – ½
Yam – 100gms
Carrot – 1 Medium
Drumstick – 1
Beans – 4 – 5
Potato – 1 small
Turmeric Powder – a pinch
Salt to taste
Yoghurt – ½ cup slightly sour
Coconut oil – 1 tbsp
Curry Leaves a few

To Grind

Scraped Coconut – 1 ½ cups
Green chillies – 4 – 5 ( adjust according to taste)

Method

Wash peel and cut all vegetables lengthwise into about 2” sized pieces.

In a heavy bottom Kadai, add the Yam, plantains, ashgourd, at the bottom (since these veggies take slightly longer time to cook) and then add the other veggies. Add a pinch of turmeric powder and salt to taste.
Add about 1 cup of water and cook covered until the vegetables are just done. They should not get mushy. If after the veggies get cooked there is lot of water remaining, cook uncovered till the moisture has almost dried up.

In the meanwhile, grind fresh scraped coconuts with the green chillies into a fine paste using very little water.
Add the ground paste and the slightly sour yoghurt.
Mix slowly without mashing the vegetables.
Add curry leaves and drizzle the coconut oil.
Mix carefully until the veggies are coated with the coconut and yogurt. Remove from heat.

This is very famous and authentic keralite dish which goes so well with rice and as well as Adai 
Since no much spices r being used, people of any age can have it. It's mixture of many vegetable and thereby it's highly nutritious. It's always serve with something spicy or for a aviyal lover pappadaam itself would be enough.

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