🌼 Onasadya Menu 🌼
🥛 Essentials
Salt
A pinch of pure rock salt placed on the banana leaf to balance flavors across all dishes.
Ghee
Golden clarified butter, poured over rice with parippu for a rich and comforting flavor.
🍌 Snacks & Crunch
Banana Chips
Thinly sliced raw bananas deep-fried in coconut oil until crisp and salty.
Sharkara Varatti
Banana chips coated with jaggery syrup, crunchy with a sweet caramelized bite.
Kondattam Mulaku
Sun-dried chilies deep-fried to perfection, fiery hot and crunchy.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Pappadam
Paper-thin lentil wafers, fried until puffed and crispy, adding crunch to every bite.
🌶 Pickles & Chutneys
Mango Pickle
Raw mango chunks preserved with chili and spices, tangy and fiery.
🌶️Lemon Pickle
Sour-spicy preserved lemon pieces that balance the richness of the Sadhya.
🌶️Puli Inchi
A sweet-sour ginger chutney with tamarind and jaggery, refreshing and unique.
🌶️🥦 Vegetable Dishes
Cabbage Thoran
Finely chopped cabbage stir-fried with coconut and spices, dry and mildly spiced.
Beans Mezhukkupuratti
Green beans sautéed in coconut oil with mild spices, simple yet flavorful.
Beetroot Kichadi
Beetroot in spiced yogurt sauce, mildly tangy with a vibrant color.
Pineapple Pachadi
Sweet pineapple cooked in creamy yogurt and coconut base, tangy and refreshing.
Olan
A delicate stew of ash gourd, cowpeas, and coconut milk, mild and soothing.
Mathanga Erissery
Pumpkin and red beans in a coconut-based curry, slightly sweet with a hint of spice.
🌶️Avial
A medley of vegetables cooked in yogurt-coconut gravy, iconic to Onasadya.
Koottu Curry
A rich dish made with yam, plantains, chickpeas, and grated coconut.
🌶️🌶️Kurukku Kaalan
Thick yogurt curry cooked with yam and bananas, tangy and spiced.
🌶️🍚 Main Course
Sambar
Lentil-vegetable stew flavored with tamarind, aromatic and spicy.
🌶️🌶️🌶️Parippu Curry
Mild moong dal curry enjoyed with ghee, hearty and wholesome.
Rasam
Spiced tamarind soup with pepper, tangy, light, and appetite-boosting.
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moru
Spiced buttermilk curry with green chilies, refreshing and tangy.
🌶️Rice
The foundation of the feast, served with ghee, parippu, and all curries.
🍮 Desserts
Palada Payasam
Creamy milk dessert with rice flakes, sweet and rich, a festive favorite.
Parippu Sharkkara Payasam
Moong dal and jaggery cooked in coconut milk, a traditional sweet ending.
🍌 Fruit
Banana (Pazham)
Served alongside the feast, balances the spices and completes the meal.