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Aviyal

Tasty side dish prepared with vegetables, curd and coconut. Aviyal is a delicious Indian curry that can be prepared easily. Aviyal can be prepared in instant pot as well.
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Course: Aviyal
Cuisine: Indian
Author: Vidya Srinivasan

Ingredients

  • Mixed Vegetables - 1000 grams peeled and chopped into bite-size pieces (I used potato, white pumpkin, carrot, beans, chayote, raw banana, and drumstick)
  • Thick Curd - 1/2 cup tight pressed
  • Salt - to taste
  • Water - 1 tbsp
  • Coconut oil - 1 tbsp
  • Rice flour 1/2 tsp

To grind:

  • Coconut - 1 cup tightly packed
  • Green Chilli - 3 Adjust according to your taste
  • Thick curd 1 tbsp
  • Little water

To Temper:

  • Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few

Instructions

Ground coconut

  • Combine coconut, green chilli, thick curd, and little water and grind into chutney consistency

Tempering

  • In a small tadka pan add coconut oil and curry leaves, roast the curry leaves, and set aside

How to make cook vegetables for instant pot Aviyal:

  • Add coconut oil and water to the instant pot
  • Furthermore, add vegetables and spread
  • Sprinkle required salt
  • Add the ground coconut paste and spread but make sure the coconut paste doesn't stick to the pot
  • If the curd you are going to use is sour, close the lid
  • If the curd you are going to use is non-sour, add few raw mangoes and close the lid
  • Cook for 1 minute at high temperature and carefully do a quick release
  • Transfer the cooked vegetables to a wide vessel
  • Add rice flour and gently mix

How to make cook vegetables for traditional Aviyal:

  • Boil water in a vessel and when the water boils, add carrot, beans, potato, drumstick, white pumpkin with a little salt; cover and cook. Once the veggies are half cooked add raw banana; cook till veggies are fork-tender. In a colander drain the veggies and keep the water
  • AViyal
  • In the same pan add the cooked vegetables, required salt along with the coconut paste. Sprinkle the veggie cooked water according to the consistency you desire (generally Aviyal is thick so I add very little water) and cook
  • If required add little rice flour

Prepare aviyal

  • Add curry leaves to the cooked vegetables
  • In a bowl add curd and mix well
  • After the cooked vegetables of completely cool add the curd ad mix gently
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Notes

  1. I sprinkle water and prepare aviyal in the thick consistency as I got use to that texture, adjust water according to the consistency you desire
  2. Adding coconut oil enhances the flavor. If you use any other oil and cook curry leaves, finally add a drop of coconut oil for taste
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