Saturday, February 28, 2009

Avial (Mixed vegetable gravy)

Avial (Mixed vegetable gravy) - preparation time 15 to 20 mins
I love this dish. We used to mix this with white rice and take. Good partner for adai (famous adai aviyal).  Goes well with rasam also.

We don't know how to make kids eat vegetable because they sometimes might be choosy on vegetable they eat. You can make them eat avial. As we are adding variety of vegetable it is packed with different nutrients. Vegetables nutrient value will vary according to the color of the vegetable. Here we are adding green, orange, white, cream colour vegetable. Minimum 3 vegetable is enough but you can add according to your wish.

We are adding curd, coconut oil so this will add health value to the gravy.

Ingredients:-
Chopped vegetables - 2 cup (carrot, beans, chowchow, plantain, drumstick, cauliflower, cabbage,potato)
Small onions - 10 to 15
Green chili - 3
Grated coconut - 50 gms
Roasted channa spilt (Pottukadalai) - 1 tsp
Kasakasa - ½ tsp
Salt - to taste
Curd - 3 tbsp
Coconut oil - 2 tsp


Preparation method:-
Boil the vegetables along with small onion, required amount of water and salt. If the vegetable have to be pressured cook keep required water and only for 1 to 2 whistle.

Grind coconut, chili, kasakasa and roasted channa coarsely.
When the boiled vegetables are warm, Add the grind paste, curd, coconut oil (make sure the vegetable is not too hot when you mix the curd).
If you want you can garnish with spluttered mustard seed and curry leaves.
This can be mixed and taken with plain rice or rasam rice or Adai.

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