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Avial Recipe - vegetable side dish recipe

This Avial recipe (also spelt as aviyal) is a south Indian recipe which originated from the southern Indian state of Kerala.

There are many stories how this dish came into being. There is a story of Bhima, The mighty Pandava brother, who was the cook in the kingdom of Virata, making this dish.

There is also a story of a king who did not like things being wasted in the kitchen and ordered the cook to use all the vegetables and make a dish. Aviyal is the wonderful result.

It is a vegetable side dish that is served generally with rice. It is also a special dish made on the occasion of Onam, a festival of Kerala and also on any other special occasion.

A mixture of vegetables is used for this. You can use any 3-4 vegetables, your favorite vegetables. Generally potato, beans, carrots, eggplant, raw banana, yam, cucumber, snake gourd, drumsticks etc are used.

Go to Aviyal Recipe and enjoy.


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