Emirates to mark Onam with onboard treats and films
Emirates is to mark the start of the harvest season in South India with a range of authentic traditional dishes
Emirates will celebrate the Kerala harvest season, with a selection of treats onboard and Malayalam movies for passengers across all cabin classes, on flights to and from Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai from August 20 – 31.
Passengers will enjoy traditional appetisers of sharkara upperi - banana roasted in sweet jaggery, kaya varuthathu - crisp banana chips and kondattam mulaku - fried sundried chillies steeped in yoghurt. Passengers will also have a selection of dips essential for Onam, including kaalan made of coconut, fresh yoghurt and yam, cucumber pachadi - a garnished salad, and puli inji – a sweet and tangy ginger-based chutney. First and Business Class passengers will also be served Kerala-style pappadam and piquant mango pickle.
A choice of main courses includes alleppey kozhi curry - spiced chicken in coconut sauce, served with avial, chemba rice and cabbage carrot thoran, or vegetarian sadhya - sambar and kootu, paired with matta rice and carrot pea thoran, spiced chicken sukha – pan-fried chicken with coconut and spices, steamed rice, carrot pea thoran and vegetable kootu, or mutton sukha with chemba rice, erissery and bean thoran. First Class customers can also choose the tasty option of mutton pepper fry.
Desserts will include Onam favourites like palada pradhaman- creamy rice pudding served with roasted pistachios, raisins, and cashew nuts, or parippu payasam - the popular sweet lentil pudding topped with roasted coconut flakes. All meals will be served on banana leaf dish liners to offer an authentic feel to the sadhya for Keralites.
Eighteen Malayalam movies including award-winning titles like Ela Veezha Poonchira, Hridayam and blockbusters Bro Daddy and 12th Man are currently available on the airline's ice IFE platform.
