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Drumstick and raw mango aviyal - for our traditional dishes like sambar, aviyal, kootanchoru and vellai curry these two vegetables add a fabulous taste to it. During summer season these two vegetables are the star ingredient in many of the dishes. This aviyal has an amazing taste with full of flavours. This easy aviyal is made with basic ingredients within 20 minutes. This murungaikkai mangai  aviyal is sure to become one of your favourite drumstick recipes. As raw mango has sour taste, there is no need to add curd or tamarind extract for this aviyal. If you use fresh drumstick and mango, the taste is awesome. Now let's see how to prepare this murungaikkai mangai aviyal with step by step instructions. Check out my other Aviyal recipes Tirunelveli Aviyal Bottle Gourd (Suraikkai) Aviyal Vendakka (Ladies finger) Aviyal Ash Gourd (Vellai Poosanikai) Aviyal    Bitter Gourd Aviyal - Pavakkai Aviyal Check out my other Nanjil recipes Nanjil Sambar Vazhaikkai Thuvattal Senai ...

Today we are going to see an interesting aviyal recipe with bitter gourds. Usually we prepare aviyal by cooking the vegetable with required water and then we add coconut paste and finished with either tamarind or curd. In this bitter gourd aviyal, to reduce the bitterness we have to cook the bitter gourds in the tamarind extract until soft and then we have to add the coconut paste. Generally for bitter gourd recipes if we add sour, salt, spice and oil in a good amount it can balance the bitter taste. Plus cooking the bitter gourds  along with small onions with rich flavours like coconut oil also enhances the taste. This bitter gourd aviyal tastes good with sambar , pulikuzhambu and kara kuzhambu . In this aviyal recipe, I have added red chilly powder instead of green chillies but you can add dried red chilli to it. Now let's see how to prepare bitter gourd aviyal with step by step instructions. Check out my other Aviyal recipes Tirunelveli Aviyal Bottle Gourd (Sur...

Ladies finger (Okra) is usually prepared as poriyal, pachadi or roasts. Today we are going to see how to prepare aviyal with ladies finger. When it comes to side dish for our lunch, aviyal is a great side dish which can be prepared easily. Ladies finger is a wonderful source of vitamins and other nutrients that must be included frequently in our regular diet. My Grandma taught me this Ladies finger aviyal. For mixed vegetables aviyal and aviyal with any other vegetables, we won't add onions and no sauteing is required. But for this Ladies finger aviyal we have to add thinly sliced onions and saute both the onions and ladies finger in the coconut oil before cooking them. For the ground coconut paste we have to add both the red chillies and green chillies. This aviyal is a good combination for sambar, pulikuzhambu  and karakuzhambu. Once you have finished sauteing the ladies fingers, it doesn't take long to cook and you can finish the dish within 15 minutes. Check out my ...

Bottle gourd/Suraikkai Aviyal (Bottle gourds in Coconuts and Curd) Bottle gourd aviyal is a good healthy side dish for South Indian meals. Eating  bottle gourd once in a week has so many health benefits. This simple vegetable is full of minerals and water. For a healthy side dish with bottle gourd, try this simple aviyal with simple ingredients in your kitchen. I learnt this recipe from my grandmother. This bottle gourd aviyal has simple flavours and made colourful with the addition of chana dal. The spice level of this dish will vary a bit depending on the variety of green chilly you use. For any type of aviyals try to use medium hot chillies. Try to use young, firm bottle gourd for best results. Follow these simple instructions and prepare this tasty aviyal for your family. This bottle gourd aviyal is utterly delicious for sambar, rasam combo and also for chapathi.