Onam feast goes online

Top chefs to present recipes on www.indiavideo.org

PTI | August 20, 2010



For the first time, people around the world get chance to have an online taste of the delicious Onam ?sdadya?, the sumptuous multi-dish feast that goes with Keralites most important festival falling on August 23.

Keralite diaspora and Onam enthusiasts from all other communities will be presented recipes of more than 25 dishes of the traditional 'sadya' by top chefs through videos in a special gallery by www.indiavideo.org, in association with Kerala Tourism.

The delicacies to be laid out on the tongue-shaped banana leaf on the Thiruvonam day ranges from taste-whetting mango pickle to sweet and succulent ?adapradhman? as the all-veg multi-course feast progresses through such quintessentially Malayali items like avial, thoran, kalan and olan to be mixed with liberal measures of rice.

Onam recalls the mythical past of Keralites under the reign of Asura King Mahabali, which was sort of egalitarian utopia.

Video guides and recipes of the dishes will be available on the website http:// www.indiavideo.org/onam-recipes.? This is an opportunity for Keralites all over the world to discover the joy of a homemade sadya during this Onam,? said a spokesperson of the website. Around 1.85 million Keralites work outside Kerala and the video guides will help them prepare the sadya at home.

Besides giving recipes as text, the site offers online video tutorials of dishes. Even non-Malayalees can test these recipes since the narration is in English. Dishes, which have a ritualistic importance, like the 'poovada' (steam-baked pan cake), have also been included.

 

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