18. Avial kuzhambu

Avial kuzhambu is the simplest and delicious gravy.

Ingredients:
Curd / Butter milk (sour) - 1 cup
Salt - 1 tbs
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Hinge - a pinch
Rice flour - 1tbs

Ash gourd - 1 cup(Chopped)
Potato - 1/2 cup (Chopped)
Carrot - 4 pieces
Broad beans (avaraikai) - 1/2 cup
Brinjal - 2 chopped
colocasia -4 (pressure cooked)

For grinding:
Grated coconut - 1cup
Green chilli - 7
Jeera - 1 tsp

Seasoning:
Coconut oil - 1tbs
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Vendhayam - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves

Method:

1. Boil all the vegetables adding salt, turmeric powder and hinge 3 cups of water.
2. Grind all the items mentioned into a thin paste and add to the boiling vegetables.
3. Stir well and allow it to boil.
4. Churn the curd well and add. Then add rice flour paste. 
5. Heat till the gravy just rise up. Add boiling water if the consistency is very thick.
6. Season and serve hot along with rice and fried applam/vathal/vadam.

17. Morchar

Morchar is a very simple gravy.

Ingredients: 
Curd - 11/2 cups
Salt - 1tbs

Seasoning:
Coconut oil / cooking oil - 1tbs
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Methi /vendhyam - 1/2tsp
Red chilli(broken into pieces) - 2
Hinge - a pinch
Curry leaves

Method:

• Churn the curd and add salt.
• Season and mix well. 

16. Pachai morkuzhambu/simple morkuzhambu

Pachai Morkuzhambu
Ingredients :
Same as the morkuzhambu but preferably with curd.
Chopped vegetable - 1 cup
Curd (sour) - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Hinge - a pinch
Salt - 1 tbs

For grinding:
Grated coconut - 4 tbs
cumin seed/ jeeragam - 1/2 tsp
Green chili - 7
coriander leaves- little
Rice flour - 1 1/2 tbs

For seasoning:
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Red chili - 1
Methi seeds- few
Hinge - a pinch
curry leaves - few
coconut oil/cooking oil - 1 tsp

Method :

1. Grind all the items along with rice flour. into a fine paste.
2. Cook the chopped vegetables with salt, turmeric powder and hinge in 1 cup of water.
3. Mix the ground paste, Add enough water so that the consistency is not very thick. 
4. Boil the mixture.
5. Churn the curd. Add to the boiling mixture.Do not boil too much. Just when the mixture rises up switch of the stove.
6. Season and serve.