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Avial Recipe




Ingredients:

• 250g Ridge Gourd 
• 250g Sweet Potato 
• 250g Gherkins 
• 250g Pumpkin 
• 250g Cow Peas, long beans 
• 250g Ash Gourd 
• 1 tsp Sugar 
• 2 Coconuts, to extract milk 
• 8 to 10 Green Chilies 
• Salt to taste

For Seasoning 
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds 
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds 
• 2 tbsp Ghee or Oil 
• Few Curry Leaves 

Method:
• Chop vegetable into thick strips.
• Slit green chilies and extract thin milk from the coconuts.
• Cook vegetables in green chilies and coconut milk.
• Add salt to the mixture and heat for 2 minutes.
• Mix in the vegetables.
• Just before the coconut milk begins to boil, remove from flame.
• In a small saucepan, put ghee or oil and let it get hot.
• Prepare seasoning by adding cumin, mustard and curry leaves to the hot oil.
• Once they start crackling, add the seasoning to the coconut milk mixture.
• You can add sugar, if desired.
• Avial is ready to be served.