Valval is a very popular Konakni dish prepared during special festive occasions. It is prepared using lot of veggies cooked in coconut milk. Tempering with cumin seeds makes it tastier and more special. Valval is much similar to Kerala based Avial, though there are small variations. Overall it’s an awesome dish to have with a bowl of rice at lunch or you can even consume it as it is just like Soup.
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Author’s note on making Valval:
Hello friends, here I am presenting one more authentic Konkani recipe Valval. If you have so many veggies left out then this is a perfect dish to make. I have used pumpkin (dudde), malbar cuccumber (magge), Potato, Ivy gourd (tendle), Carrot, Beans, Long Beans (alsando) and raw cashews. Apart from these you can also use Yam (surnu), Ash gourd (kuvale), Bottle gourd (gardudde), Bread fruit (jeev kadgi), Teasel gourd (phagil), Ridge gourd (Gosale), Snake gourd (poddale), green peas and many more. Most of the veggies suit into this dish, so need not worry about list of what you have and what not. Just mix it all and the dish will come out so nice.
Secondly I have used double quantity of vegetables than required. In my family all people love eating vegetables and moreover it is good for health too. You can take a little of all the veggies said above and prepare valval. Also you can cook all the vegetables in cooker upto one whistle instead of cooking one by one. These days packed cartoons of coconut milk is readily available in market, and you can prepare this dish on a go. But I prefer coconut milk prepared at home. It gives special taste to the dish. That’s all you have to follow, rest you will know why this dish is special when you prepare it of your own.
Hope you will try this dish at home. Do let me know how it was in comment section below. Your feedbacks are always welcome. Also try my other konkani recipes, Kolambo, Beetroot Buthi, Poha chutney, Green Poha chutney, Kadgi chakko, Sanna Polo and lot more. Wish you all happy cooking, cook well, eat well and stay healthy.
With love,
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Valval | Veggies in coconut milk | Konkani recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Malbar Cucumber diced
- 1 cup Pumpkin diced
- 1 cup Potato diced
- 1/2 cup Carrot diced
- 1/2 cup Beans
- 1/2 cup Long beans
- 10-12 pieces Raw cashews (bibbo)
- 3 Nos Green chili
- 250g (3 cups) Grated coconut
- Salt as per taste
For Tempering
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1/2 tbsp Cumin Seeds
- 1/2 tbsp Mustard Seeds
- 10-12 leaflets Curry Leaves
Instructions
Preparing Coconut Milk
- Take 3 cups (250g) of grated coconut and put it in a mixer jar. You can put part by part if mixer jar is small.
- Grind it to paste, you can add very little water if required if coconut is a bit dry.
- Take a small piece of cloth and cover it on a bowl or vessel. Pour the ground coconut on it.
- Squeeze the cloth to extract coconut milk. Keep it aside.
Preparing Valval
- Pour 500ml water in a vessel and bring it to boil. Then add 1 cup malbar cucumber, 1 cup potato and 1/2 cup carrot. Add salt as per taste. Cover the lid and boil them for 2 minutes.
- In next round add 1/2 cup ivy gourd and 1 cup diced pumpkin. Close the lid and boil them again for 2 more minutes.
- In third round add 1/2 cup beans, 1/2 cup long beans and 3 vertically slit green chilies. Close the lid again and boil for 5 more minutes. Here one thing to note is different vegetables have different cook time. So you need to maintain the order. One more method is taking all the veggies in a cooker and cook upto 1 whistle.
- Finally add 10-12 raw cashews. This step is optional and can be added as per availability of raw cashew. Further you can add extra vegetables of your choice too.
- Finally pour the coconut milk and adjust the salt. Close the lid and simmer for 5 more minutes. Take it off flame and keep aside.
Tempering
- Take 2 tbsp pure ghee in a small tempering vessel. Add 1/2 tbsp mustard seeds and 1/2 cumin seeds. Let it splutter. Cumin seeds are key ingredient of this dish.
- Add 10-12 curry leaves and stir well.
- Add the tempered mixture to valval and stir all the ingredients well.
- That's all. Tasty, creamy, delicious Valval is ready to eat. Eat it with a bowl of rice or just drink it as Soup.
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