Lunch Ideas - Creating Balanced Vegetarian Meals

yes vani, i would love the traditional avial anyday. but this cut is a my own kickback (i would say i care a damn about the size or bite mood) we have very rigid rules on the cut of vegetables..a cabbage if not shredded thin would be quoted to be like your head..) and my son is very finicky if the veg is cut big on day to day basis and if it gets mushy..both his spd and gene :rant. so when it is just me and dd it is any size acceptable..lol.

and i make it as you say when we have guests,and when the family has it..with more coconut and a little liberal oil..otherwise very few slices of coconut, chillies and liberal curd. and i think i will not call it avial.

And do post the authentic pic of avial, i miss it, as i used to get it from a aunty who used to pamper me with wonderful avial,olan and appams but she has moved far.

 

@chillbreeze i am not against these vegetables. i only meant using more of what is grown locally helps a lot in combating our seasonal allergies and more..

a tale that a person shared once. olden days most of us had a cow at home, and used the milk for our regular use. and though she is worshipped as kamadhenu for various reasons, this person said that she indeed was gomata/kamadhenu because she was so integral part of our lives that she could sense the necessary things needed by the family and produce that along with the milk. he went on to say that her milk became the medicine for the illness.

though i don't have any proof, but sometimes i tend to think there could have been.. havent we heard that our pets are the first once that sense sickness or disease even before our doctors..

and last month the prof. i mentioned had asked me to wean off tubers for my daughter. if you notice i have not had a carrot/beetroot or potato dish in the last 30 days maybe once i made potato. he says that carrots and beetroot though touted as healthy are tubers. now if you raise the doubt will radish and knolkhol not be tubers, no they are part of the cabbage family. nature has a very balanced ways.

so i only drink carrot and beets juice once a week. potatoes, yam,and all these only once in 15 days /2 days. i have not cooked yam too..

so it is possible to eat locally grown. i do not know any sites love. from what i have tried - all greens (around 64 out of which we can eat or readily available is 20+), drumstick, pavakkai/bittergourd, sorakkai/bottlegourd, poosanikkai/ashgourd, kovakkai/tindora , kothavarangai/cluster beans, avarakkai/broad beans, karamani /long beans, chow chow/bangalore kathirikkai/chayote, brinjal, ladysfinger, parangikaai/yellow pumpkin, pudalangai/snakegourd, mullangi/radish, valakkai/plantain, valathandu/plantain pith, vazhapoo/plantain flower, and then rotational - senai/yam, seppangizhangu/arbi, koor kizhangu/ a variety of tuber, and yes you can add cabbage, cauliflower too..