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I am back with another blog related to Onam festival in Kerala. Hope you guys have enjoyed the previous one.

Today, I am gonna share with you some of the important side dishes of Onam feast in Kerala, which every keralites enjoys whole-heartedly during the festival. The beauty and deliciousness of the feast is beyond words to describe. All in all, the grand feast every household prepares on Thiruvonam day is highly gracious.

Onasadya, as ever eaten by hand, typically comprises 25 to 30 items which gives away flavours like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. The feast is a combination of Ayurveda and native wisdom considering the order of which is served and its nutritional fact is quite enriched. Starting with main ingredient white rice, the grand feast is served on a banana leaf. Besides, other mouth-watering curries, fried vegetables, and sweet side dishes are what makes the feast a royalty.

Some of those side dishes are here:

AVIAL

A mixed vegetable dish cooked by mixing 13 vegetables with grated coconut and a sour fruit (mango, tomato, bimbli) which is an important part of the Kerala Onasadya. Tasty ingredients in Avial varies with regions.

SAMBAR

it's an essential dish of the South Indian cuisines, each with its own style. Kerala-style sambar is a lentil-based vegetable curry with a blend of spices, and is the main item of Onasadya.

OLAN

This is the mouth cleanser in the feast made with white gourd, cowpeas and pumpkin cooked in coconut milk with no spices. It is often eaten midway through the meal.

THORAN

It's a dry vegetable dish made with cabbage and carrots, sometimes beans with grated coconut.

KAALAN OR MORU CURRY

It is a Malayali version of kadi prepared without the besan, is a thick gravy dish prepared from ash gourd, mixed with grated coconut and curd.

Even though the ingredients and taste varies from region to region across Kerala, the competency of number of items in each region is well known. And especially, without pachadi, kichadi, pulisseri, elisseri, kootu curry, sarkara varatty and rasam, no keralites' Onasadya would be complete. And finally with a mesmerizing touch of sweet with PRADHAMAN, made with milk, dry fruits and rice ada😋. It's served in the end to counteract all the spices.

Most of you might not be from Kerala. Comment below if u were ever lucky to eat Onasadya from Kerala.
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