Emirates customers in all classes will be able to enjoy the flavours of Onam this festive season.
The Flavours of Onam
To give the customers a flavour of home, Emirates will serve traditional appetisers for lunch and dinner of sharkara upperi– banana roasted sweet jaggery, kaya varuthathu– crisp banana chips and kondattam mulaku – fried sundried chillies steeped in yoghurt.
In addition to this, customers will also get a chance to revel in various dips, including Kaalan, which is made of coconut, fresh yoghurt and yam, cucumber pachadi– a garnished salad, and puli inji– a sweet and tangy ginger-based chutney.
Business Class customers will also be served Kerala-style pappadam and mango pickle.
Whereas, the main course will include 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 peathoran and vegetable kootu, or padavalanga thoran with chemba rice,erissery and bean thoran.
First Class customers will have the chance to try the famous Kerala-style chicken stew.
Desserts and more flavours of Onam
Emirates’ customers can also try the desserts of Kerala, including 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.
To capture the essence of Onam, all the dishes will be served on banana leaf dish liners.
Emirates is committed to making the journey of its customers more enjoyable. Those celebrating the festival of Onam can enjoy more than 6,500 channels of entertainment on Emirates’ award-winning ice, more than 45 Academy Award-winning films, over 2,000 movies, 650 TV shows, and 4,000 hours of music, podcasts and audiobooks across 40 languages. 15 Malayalam movies are also available, including Ponman, Pani and Anand Sreebala, and more than 170 Indian movies from timeless classics like Johny Mera Naam, and the latest Bollywood hits like Stree 2, Mrs and Tikdam. Ice also offers popular TV shows like Koffee with Karan and Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of Solang Valley, and up to 40 music albums by Indian artists, including AP Dhillon, Anuv Jain, Bloodywood, and a collection of Desi mixtapes.
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