Indian Cooking Recipe: Aviyal (Alternate)
The following are the instructions on how to cook delicious Indian food: Aviyal (Alternate)
Ingredients:
1. 1 cup grated coconut
2. ¼ tsp turmeric
3. ¼ tsp red chilli powder
4. salt
5. mustard seeds
6. oil
7. 3 or 4 tbsp yogurt
8. ¼ cup water
9. 2 - 3 tomatoes, cut into long pieces
10. 1 medium onion, cut it into long slices
11. 2 - 4 green chillies, cut it long halves
12. curry leaves
13. 1 - 2 potato or carrot
14. 2 - 3 cucumber
15. ½ raw (green) banana
16. 10 or 12 green beans (or long green beans)
Method of Preparation:
Cut all veggies into long pieces, 1 inch long and 0.5 cm thick (except muringakkaya, cut it into 1.5" long pieces and split into half). Put them in a pot in layers, beans and carrot at the bottom, then banana, then potato, then add the onion slices, cut red chillies and curry leaves, then put the coconut, turmeric and chilli powder (spread it on the top, all three), then put tomato slices, and then cucumber on the top. Then pour water, cover with a lid and cook in low-medium flame. When it is cooked, add salt and then stir well, careful not to break the vegetable pieces. If there is plenty water, keep it for a while to be dried up. Heat the oil, add mustard seeds and curry leaves, add it to the above mix. Then add the yogurt and stir well, adding enough salt of your taste. It is ready to serve.
NOTE:
You can add yam, snake gourd, drumsticks, etc. if you can get them.
After adding the yogurt, don't heat it up, as it will get watery then. So if you want to put some in the refrigerator for the next day, take it first and add yogurt to the rest. You can add yogurt to the other when you are going to have it, after warming it up first.
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