Aviyal - Kerala special curry

Ingredients-


Drumstick/muringakkaya-5 pieces 
Ladies finger/venda-5 pieces
Brinjal/vazhuthananga-5 pieces
Yam/chena -5 pieces
Pumpkin/mathan-5 pieces
Potato/urulakizhangu-5 pieces
Half a big onion sliced thickly-ulli
Raw banana/ pachakkaya-5pieces
Carrot-5pieces
Yard Long beans/ achinga payar-5-8pieces


You can use any left over vegetable you have in your fridge. Just see that you cut every vegetables atleast 2 inches lengthwise as you can see in my picture. Pieces i have mentioned here is not the count of whole vegetables but the cut piece numbers of each vegetable. Slight variations doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter if you do not have all the vegetables i have told.


Water-1 cup
Curry leaves a sprig(5)
Green chillies-5 split open length wise
Turmeric- 1/4th tspn
Salt to taste
Freshly grated Coconut- one cup
Curd-3/4 cup


Coconut oil-2tablespn


Directions:-

You can use any left over vegetable you have in your fridge. Just see that you cut every vegetables atleast 2 inches lengthwise as you can see in my picture.

• Now cook every vegetables in one cup of water with lid on the pan. This may take 15 min approximately.
• Add Salt, curry leaves, chillies and turmeric while cooking this.
• If you are using yam cook it first for 5 min and then add rest of the vegetables. This is because yam require more time to get cooked

Check in-between if there is enough water to cook. If not, add a little. Do not let it stick at the bottom and get a burnt taste because this is one among the best dishes you can have from Kerala.

• Meanwhile grind coconut with curd coarsely.
• Add this to the cooked vegetables. Make sure that  before adding the coconut, water has completely evaporated from the cooked vegetables.
• Give a stir and cook for another 5 min with the lid on, at medium flame.
• Finally add the coconut oil over this and give a quick stir. 

Note that you are not heating the oil. The oil goes straight from your bottle to the Aviyal.

• Done. Serve hot with rice as a side dish.

I would like to disclose one tip. And that is- if you can get thick coconut milk from stores you can just add 1/2 cup of it, instead of grinding coconut. DO this only if it is thick because we do not want our Aviyal watery and with gravy. Then use only 1/2 cup of curd.

This is usually a side dish for Kerala Sadya..

Enjoy your meal :)