Are You Ready To Eat Sadhya?
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Sadhya is not an easy dish, it often means hours of work in a humid kitchen, grinding coconuts and spices, slicing bananas and starring pots of payasam. Worry not. There is a ready-to-eat Onam hack to the rescue. The pack by Kerala-based packaged food and meals company Tasty Nibbles comes with 13 dishes--cooked Matta rice, sambhar, avail, loan, kalan, koottu curry, cabbage thoran, tender mango pickle, banana chips, puli inji, and three varieties of instant payasam and it has an 18-month shelf life. All you need to do is open up the packets, heat them in boiling water and lay out your banana leaves for the meal. The Sadya pack costs Rs. 1,500 and can be ordered online.
The Non-Vegetarian Sadhya
While the Onam Sadhya is largely regarded as a vegetarian meal, in some parts of Kerala, the Sadhya is incomplete without non-vegetarian elements. In parts of Kannur and the Malabar region, an Onam Sadhya can include fried fish or prawns, as well as chicken, mutton and beef appetisers.
The Raw Onam Sadhya
Though an Onam Sadhya is considered a healthy meal, given its balance of nutrients and flavours, some take it a notch higher by keeping the Sadhya completely raw. Pathayam (Press Road, near Secretariat Statue, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram; call 8921645056), an organic and raw food restaurant in Thiruvananthapuram, offers a raw Onam Sadhya for a detox. Rice flakes mixed with nuts are used in place of boiled rice, and the vegetable preparations are replaced with salads of sprouts and grated carrots. Also, the showstopping payasam is made by mixing jaggery powder, coconut milk and fruits. If you’re inclined to experiments of this sort, you could celebrate this Onam with some elements of the Sadhya turned raw.
The In-Flight Sadhya. The Emirates Onam Sadhya
The Akasa Air Onam specialsIt’s not uncommon for airlines to celebrate Onam mid-air. Emirates, for instance, has provided an in-flight Onam Sadhya for years. This year, the airline is offering its special Sadhya onboard flights on the Kochi-Dubai and Thiruvananthapuram-Dubai routes. The elaborate meal includes all the Onam classics, like sharara upperi, kaalan, cucumber pachadi, inji puli, avial and eriserry, along with non-vegetarian options like chicken and mutton sukha. And, of course, there’s also palada pradhaman and parippu payasam to wrap up the meal. Akasa Air is also providing Onam specials onboard all its flights in August.
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