Onam sadhya is a unavoidable part of any onam celbration. .The saying “kanam vitum onam unnanam” in malayalam which means that “ You have to eat onam sadhya even if you have to sell your property for that” underline the importance of onam sadhya in malayalees mind. Onam is a festival celebrated in one of Indian state kerala. Keralites believe that 1000s of years before Kerala was ruled by a king named Mahabali, got blessing from Lord vishnu because of his good work. With that blessing he got permission to visit his people once in a year even after his time, as long as the world exist.That day kerala people clebrate as onam with lot of food and game to welcome their beloved king.

Onam Sadya:

Onam sadya is a vegetarian Rice Lunch provided on a washed and cleaned banana leaf with curries and side dishes like Sambar, Avial, Rasam etc etc. All the dishes should be made with kerala variation of the recipes. A detailed Description is given below

Entry

Entry Dishes or starting of onam sadhya will be normally with Little dhal and ghee mixed along with rice or papadum, ghee, plantain (differ locally). The curries will be served only after this.

Main Cource

1. Rice:- Steamed rice made out of red boiled rice produced from kerala farm. People are also using ponni rice from Andra Pradesh as keralites in nowadays are used with ponni rice and it's taste.
2. Sambar:- Sambar is a Indian curry which is used all over India. But it has got lot of variations from place to place. In kerala variation which is used in onam sadhya, mainly cocoanut and more vegetables are added.
3. Avial: Avial is a dish belong to kerala only. It contains vegetables boiled with coconut paste with green chilly. Curd is added to give the desired taste. Lot of avial recipe is available on the internet.
4. Kootu curry:- kootucurry is is kerala curry made with peas and vegetables. It will not be in curry form but will be in a semi paste form.
5. Olan:- Olan is a kerala curry Dish made with swedes of snake beans and vegetable.
   Kalan:- Kalan is the curry made out of buttermilk and vegetable.
6. Rasam:- Rasam is one of the south Indian dish which helps the digestion of food.

Side dishes For onam

1. Upeeri:- Upeeri is made by boiling cabbage, beans,snake beans,cauliflower or similar vegetables with green chilly,turmeric powder and salt. It will be without water in dry form
2. varutha upperi:- Is made with green banana. After cutting the banana it will be fried in vegetable oil or coconut oil.
3. Sarkara upperi:- Sarkarupperi also made with green banana but it will be mixed with zagri (sweet raw sugar) to make it sweet before frying.
4. Puli or inchi curry:- It has got 2 variations for south kerala and north kerala. Where south kerala this dish is made with grinding ginger, in north kerala it is made with tamarind paste. Whatever may be method of preparation it is it is a good appetizer.
5. Pickle:- Pickle with lemon or tender mango is served usually with onam sadhya.
6. Papadum:- Papadum fried in Coconut oil is a unavoidable dish in onam sadya.

Desserts and Payasam:

Normally two or three payasam from the below list will be served to make onam sadhya delicious.

1. Palpayasam:- Made with milk and Rice.
2. SemiaPayasam:- Made with Semia and Milk.
3. Adaprathaman:- Pradaman means first. As the name means people consider adapayasam isnumber one in the payasam. Made of ada (tiny pieces rice cake specially made) and milk
4. Paripu payasam:- Made with Dhal and milk.
5. Cherupayar payasam:-Made with cheru payar.

Fruits and plantains will be served to eat after the lunch.

Summery:-

We can find lot of images of onam sadhya in internet. Some online greeting card sites are who has understood the importance of onam sadhya is using onam sadya as their one of theme. We can find cards with onam sadya theme with

365greetings.com:- In the onam card section we can find some card with onam sadhya as theme