| FESTIVALS
- Serving
Onasadya / Onam Feast |
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For quick reading
about Onam
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Onasadya,
a strictly vegetarian feast, is the most elaborate and
grand meal of Indians, and the serving of feast is very
important. It starts from placing the leaf. Onasadya
is served on tender banana (plantain) leaves end and
traditionally people eat sitting on a mat laid on the
floor. ( nowadays on the table ) No plates are used
and people eat with their hands and no fork or spoon
is allowed. In fact, it is almost impossible to use
a spoon or forks to eat onasadya. The narrow part of
the leaf should always be on the left side. (Plastic
leaf is now available.) There is no hard and fast rule
in number of side dishes and it may vary from 8 to 24
and all items will be vegetarian dishes only.
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The
order of Onasadya serving have little difference from
place to place. Serving starts from the upper half left
of the leaf in the following sequence.
• A pinch of salt
• A plantain
• Pappadam - In some places later with the parippu
curry
• Sarkara varatti(Sarkara puratti)-jaggery coated
banana chips
• upperi (banana chips)
• lime curry(big lemon)
• pickle(lime or mango)
• Inchicurry or inchipuli
• Thoran (cabbage with coconut)
• Olan (sliced cucumber and brinjal)
• Kalan
• Avial
• kootu curry
• Pachadi('vellarika')
• Kichadi(pineapple and banana splits or of grapes
and apple)
• Erissery
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ready the following:
Rice, parippu curry, Ghee, Sambar, Kalan, Rasam,
Pulisseri or buttermilk, Adapradhaman or payasam)
After the plantain leaf is filled with all these
side dishes and the Rice is served when the guests
seat themselves. (The rice should be served at
the bottom center of the banana leaf.)
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Then
parippu curry is served along with ghee.
After finishing the first course with parippu curry,
ghee and papad, the rice is served ( if required) with
Sambhar.
The rice is then served with Kalan / pulisseri.
The rice is then served (if required)with Rasam.
The next course is Ada Pradaman (payasam) – Plantain
and papad can mix with Ada Pradaman / payasam.
The final course of rice (if required) is served along
with moru (Butter milk or curd).
This course helps in digesting this heavy food.
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