Kerala Onam Sadhya | Onam Sadya Recipes

Here is my Onam sadya recipes served in a banana leaf. Onam festival is the most anticipated day for me to express my passion for Kerala food. Basically Sendhil loves coconut based recipes a lot and I am a big fan of Kerala style dishes. Not just the food, I love Kerala sarees and their traditional ornaments too. So every year during Onam, I never fail to make sadhya feast at home to treat Sendhil and myself with varieties of Kerala delicacies. For the past two years, I have been posting different sadya menu list. And this year too, I was eagerly waiting to post this sadya menu.

Every year I love to attempt some new sadya special items for the menu and I prepared Ada pradhaman & Palada Pradhaman recipes using homemade Ada. Pineapple payasam and Pineapple pachadi as suggested by my neighbour Mrs.Prema. Mathanga erissery and kaya mezhukkupuratti out of my own wish. I referred many of our Kerala bloggers websites and I have given the links as well. Thanks to one & all for sharing these wonderful recipes with us.

For other sadya recipes like Kerala sambar, Rasam,Thoran, Puli inji, Parippu curry and avial, I referred my previous sadya recipes. All the recipes came out very well and we enjoyed this Onam feast well in advance. Here you go, my Onam sadya recipes for you all. Hope I have followed the correct serving order too.. I Wish all my readers and friends a very happy Onam.”ONAM ASHAMSAKAL” !!

Onam sadya menu

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Sadya recipes for Onam festival !

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course lunch

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

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• Moong dal
• Ginger
• Vegetables Carrot, raw banana, potato, beans, drumstick, brinjal
• Onion
• Coconut
• Tomato
• Tamarind
• Coconut milk
• Jaggery
• Toor dal
• Chilli Red chilli, Green chilli
• Salt
• Water
• Coconut oil

Instructions

 

• To make Onam sadya easily, I follow pressure cooker method.
• Soak rice ada in hot water for 30 minutes.
• Grate 2 to 3 coconuts required for Payasam, Coconut milk, Avial, Thoran, Kootu curry based on your menu.
• Pressure cook toor dal along with vegetables in a small container. Open and mix them well. Set aside.
• Dry roast and pressure cook moong dal for parippu curry. Along with it, keep the chopped vegetables for thoran.
• In another pressure cooker, flash cook vegetables for avial. i.e Pressure cook in high flame for one whistle.
• Soak rice ada in
• Make Puli inji, Paruppu curry, Thoran, Kootu curry, Avial.
• Lastly prepare payasams as per your plan. Fry Papad, make pickle
• Serve Onam sadya in proper serving order.

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Onam Sadhya Recipes

• Kerala parippu curry
• Puli inji curry
• Avial
• Kerala varutharacha sambar OR Ulli sambar
• Kerala rasam
• Thoran ( I used carrot & beans instead of cabbage)
• Mezhukkupuratti ( I used raw banana instead of beans)
• Olan
• Moru curry

Other sadya recipes in my blog

• Kerala paal payasam
• Unniappam
• Chakka pradhaman
• Ada Pradhaman
• Palada Payasam
• Semiya payasam

Click on the recipes to see the blogs from which I tried these recipes. Thank u friends. Everything came out very well.

• Mathanga vanpayar erissery
• Pineapple payasam ( I din’t grind pineapple, I used small pieces instead) 
• Homemade ada

HOW TO MAKE ONAM SADYA EASILY

I couldn’t take stepwise pictures for this sadya but I have shared some pictures of how I made this sadya quickly. Last year when I made sadya, I noticed that most of my time was spent in pre preparatory works like grating coconut, extracting coconut milk, grinding masalas, chopping vegetables and for cooking dals & vegetables.

So this year I wanted to make all these works simple and easy. Instead of grating 2 coconuts, I made small slices of it using a ladle with thick edge and blunt handle as you see in the picture below. I did not use knife as I am afraid of using it. Use knife only if you are confident of handling it and make sure your mixie blades are in good condition else it may break. Then I dry ground all the coconut slices together and divided them into 2 parts. I used one part for taking coconut milk and the other part for masala. It saved lot of time for me.

Also I pressure cooked dals for parippu curry and sambar together in my big pressure cooker by placing moong dal in the bottom of cooker and toor dal for sambar in a tiffin box. Please refer the picture. U can even keep a plate of mixed vegetables required for sambar over the toor dal.

For cooking Vanpayar and vegetables for olan, kalan and erissery, I again used my big cooker and cooked them together by keeping one above the other in small bowls and plates. As all these veggies gets cooked in one go, you just have to add them in coconut mixture and boil it. For thoran, I cooked it in my small cooker by keeping in high flame for two whistles.

For pradhaman, I prepared homemade ada. So I made it in the previous night and stored in refrigerator. Also I cleaned & chopped pineapple pieces and kept in a zip lock cover and refrigerated it. When you have ada & pineapple cubes ready in hand, you can make these payasam recipes very quickly.

All these pre preparatory jobs got over in 30 minutes & cooking took nearly one hour. This entire sadya took 1.5 hours totally. Do follow these techniques and make your sadya feast quickly & easily. Do share your methods of quick cooking in the comment section so that others get benefitted.

Disclaimer: I know this is not the authentic method of cooking Kerala sadya but to make my job easier, I followed these steps and I hope it would help beginners. Friends, please excuse me.

I have made separate posts for some of the above mentioned recipes with stepwise pictures. Please click on the link for the recipe.Thanks for visiting this page. Hope you will try all these recipes and like it. Once again, I wish you all a very happy Onam. Enjoy the feast!

WISH U ALL A VERY HAPPY ONAM CELEBRATION !!