Curry in Malayalam
The general word curry is not here, but the specific Kerala dishes are. അവിയല് (aviyal) is the mixed vegetable dish cooked with coconut and curd that anchors a sadya, and it is probably the best known of the four.
Curry made by cooking mixed vegetables.
ഇന്ന് ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക് അമ്മ അവിയല് ഉണ്ടാക്കി.
innu uchaykku amma aviyal undaakki.
Mother made aviyal for lunch today.
All Malayalam words for “curry”
- അവിയല് (aviyal) — Curry made by cooking mixed vegetables.
- എരിപുളി (eripuli) — A curry with tamarind, chillies and butter milk as its chief ingredients.
- എരിശ്ശേരി (erissery) — A curry without any sour ingredient.
- കറി (kari) — Curry. The cooked gravy or side dish eaten with rice.
- പുളി (puli) — Sourness, fruit of the tamarind tree, acidity, curry made from tamarind fruit juice.
അവിയല് (aviyal) is mixed vegetables in coconut, എരിശ്ശേരി (erissery) is a curry made without any sour ingredient, എരിപുളി (eripuli) is a hot and sour curry with tamarind and buttermilk, and പുളി (puli) means sourness or tamarind and by extension a tamarind curry.
Common questions
How do you say curry in Malayalam?
There is no general word on this list. അവിയല് (aviyal) is the best known of the dishes named here, a mixed vegetable curry with coconut.
What makes one of these curries different from another?
Mostly the sour element: one is built on tamarind and buttermilk, another deliberately leaves out anything sour, and the coconut-based mixed vegetable dish sits between them.