Onam Festival Recipes

Onam- coming almost at the end of the monsoons - around August/September, the festival celebrates the mythical return of the good king Mahabali to his subjects each year.

The high point of the festival is the family or community lunch served on green, shining clean banana leaves arranged in a row. The feast is traditionally vegetarian and includes banana wafers, crisp popadams, pachadi, aviyal, kootu, payasam, rice and sambar, pickles of several varieties and puliinji - a ginger chutney

Here is a list of some popular recipes that you can use at or around the festival of Onam.

Chana Dal Payasam
Banana Erucherry
Banana Chips
Banana Halwa
Rava Dosa
Sambar
Rava Ladoo
Uttapam
Brinjal Vindalu
Kerala Moru Curry