Avial

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Avial
avial

This is a traditional South Indian delicacy, largely influenced by Kerala cuisine, but well entrenched in Tamil Nadu as well – A festive dish Avial is made with slight differences from region to region, but for this blog hop, I got the perfect blog for the dish – Kaveri’s Palakkad Chamayal – This is my post for Blog Hop Wednesday, a wonderful event started by Radhika of Tickling Palates

I have my own recipe for this as well, but I wanted to try out her method while incorporating some of my fav ingredients as well- For those who don’t know Kaveri (unlikely) she has an amazing collection of authentic Kerala and Palakkad recipes which really appeal to me esp since coconut is a staple and I love using it in my preparations – Here is Kaveri’s recipe

I am late posting this, but it is still wednesday :)
Serves – 6-8 people -1or 2 cups each
Ingredients:

Vegetables –  (some of the veggies she used are not available here)
1/2 – 1 cup each of snake gourd, carrots, chow chow (chayote Squash) yellow bottle gourds,
1 quart plain low fat yogurt
1-2 cups of thick buttermilk (depending on how much gravy you’d like – I am not a thick avial person so I use buttermilk to thin it down)
4-5 green chilies
1/2 cup grated coconut
1/4 tsp Turmeric
1 tsp Cumin
1/4 cup crushed cilantro
1tbsp coconut oil

Avial
Before adding yogurt
Avial
After adding yogurt

Preparation
Steam or pressure cook the veggies with a 1 cup of water and the turmeric
Wet grind the coconut, green chilies,  cumin and cilantro
Pour ground paste into a saucepan and allow it to cook for few minutes – it will thicken
Now add the cooked veggies and the salt and let the mix come to boil
Switch stove off
In a separate bowl, lightly whip the yogurt and the buttermilk and keep
When the veggies in the sauce pan cool down, add the yogurt mix and bring both gravies and yogurt nicely together.
Add 1 tbsp coconut oil at the very end before serving.

avial

Tadka or temper with curry leaves

Serve at room temp with dal rice and ghee with appalam on the side :)
NOTE: Avial almost always tastes even better the next day, so be sure to have some leftovers:)

BHWednesdays

Skills

Posted on

October 13, 2011

62 Comments

  1. Alpana on October 13, 2011 at 1:42 am

    Awesome recipe Priya…..Looks delicious.

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  3. Dzoli on October 13, 2011 at 1:54 am

    Looks very yummy:)

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  4. julie on October 13, 2011 at 2:09 am

    Delicious n lovely preparation of the authentic dish, Priya!!

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  5. Lyndsey on October 13, 2011 at 2:12 am

    What a beautiful, flavorful dish!

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  7. Joy on October 13, 2011 at 2:53 am

    looks delicious :)

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  9. Hema Krishnamohan on October 13, 2011 at 3:06 am

    Looks very delicious. Using cilantro is different. Avial is an all time favourite to South Indians. Combination of vegetables gives the taste with the use of coconut oil.

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  11. La @ FoodSlice on October 13, 2011 at 3:27 am

    i 've eaten Avial and quite like it. But the husband won't eat dairy, so can't really make it at home. The pics are tingling my tastebuds

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  12. Priti on October 13, 2011 at 3:36 am

    Looks so yum …nice

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  13. Neetz on October 13, 2011 at 3:38 am

    that looks delicious!!!

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  15. SpicyTasty on October 13, 2011 at 3:49 am

    love avial..looks delicious..

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  16. Vani on October 13, 2011 at 4:10 am

    Never tasted Avial anytime..let me try it sometime.

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  17. Deeksha on October 13, 2011 at 4:15 am

    Avial looks so delicious. Love to try this.

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  24. revathi on October 13, 2011 at 7:06 am

    Classic dish.. looks super delicious..:) Medley of veggies is always a welcome..
    Reva

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  26. Ambreen on October 13, 2011 at 7:25 am

    Very interesting recipe, looks wonderful :)

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  27. S.Menaga on October 13, 2011 at 7:48 am

    adai n aviyal best combination.love it always!!

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  28. Kaveri on October 13, 2011 at 9:07 am

    Yummy looking avial..Thanks for trying it out.

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  29. Priya on October 13, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Wat an authentic dish,love with appams.

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  30. Prathibha on October 13, 2011 at 10:19 am

    nice n yummy gravy…

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  31. cooking-varieties art on October 13, 2011 at 10:23 am

    hi now serving… your avial looks interesting , never seen or tried this before…
    but i cant try this recipes because there are too many ingredients unavailable over here, this will definitely taste different from your original.. wan from cooking varieties
    http://www.cooking-vaieties.blogspot.com

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  32. Harini on October 13, 2011 at 11:37 am

    awesome! Love avial anytime!! Btw, I loved your comment about the color of mysore silk sari :)

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  33. Rosa's Yummy Yums on October 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    A gorgeous gravy! I bet it tastes delicious.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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  34. Anjali Bapna Shukla on October 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Just so beautifully done….had been looking for this fab recipe for long…thanks for sharing, dear. :)

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  36. Sumee on October 13, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    Love Avial anyday..

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  37. Raji on October 13, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    Aviyal looks so yum…makes great combination with adai.

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  38. mykitchentrials on October 13, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    An all time favorite recipe! Can never get tired of it :)

    rajani

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  41. Swathi on October 13, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    Aviyal looks delicious, my favorite.

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  44. R on October 13, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    looks so authentic and delicious.

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  45. Fahad Khan on October 13, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    What I really admire about South Indian food is the simplicity of its flavors and that the food is light on stomach.My current blog post is on the same topic too!:-) Avial looks beautiful;Thanks for sharing.:-)

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  46. Neha on October 14, 2011 at 12:17 am

    yummy yummy..

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  47. RAKS KITCHEN on October 14, 2011 at 12:49 am

    I can eat this as such! Love the recipe

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  49. SouthIndianHome on October 14, 2011 at 2:35 am

    Avial looks perfect and delicious.Good combo with adai

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  50. Babli on October 14, 2011 at 3:02 am

    Avial looks creamy, yummy and tempting. Nice presentation.

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  51. Jaleela on October 14, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    very temptin avial
    picture also very nice

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  52. Prathima Rao on October 14, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    A delicious authentic dish!!! Nicely done…
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

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  53. JishasKitchen on October 14, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    wow…delicious and authentic…perfect with rice…:)

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  56. Mythreyi on October 14, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    Avial Looks perfect in Texture… bookmarked this recipe and craving for some here…

    -Mythreyi
    Yum! Yum! Yum!

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  57. Sobha Shyam on October 14, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    aviyal is my all time fav, i love adding yogurt to it and this looks so delicious dear..

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  58. Smitha on October 14, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    it came out perfect…looks delish!

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  59. Momof3 on October 15, 2011 at 4:10 am

    Avial looks delicious…wat an amazing dish…healthy too. I make it the same way except the cumin seeds and coconut oil at the end…YUM!!

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  60. Zareena on October 15, 2011 at 7:14 am

    This looks delicious.

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  62. kitchen flavours on October 16, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    This is a delicious looking dish! Lovely with rice! Have a nice day!

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