Archive · 24 Aug 2026
Four Wholesome Onam Desserts Blend Tradition With Fresh Ingredients
Onam is a festival where families enjoy special meals together.
This article shares four sweet dishes for an Onam feast.
One is made with broken wheat, coconut milk and jaggery.
Another is a chilled pudding with chia seeds and tapioca.
A traditional rice-and-milk dessert gets extra texture from rolled oats.
A banana dessert also uses oats, coconut and jaggery.
The recipes mix familiar Kerala flavours with newer ingredients.
Some can be served warm, while the pudding is chilled before eating.
The recipes include Broken Wheat Pradhaman, Banana Leaf Chia–Tapioca Blanc, oat-based Palpayasam and Pazham Nurukku with oats.
Broken Wheat Pradhaman combines broken wheat, jaggery, coconut milk, coconut, cashews and raisins.
The chia–tapioca pudding uses coconut milk, cream, white chocolate, jaggery, fruit and toasted coconut, served in banana-leaf cups or glasses.
Palpayasam adds rolled oats to rice, full-fat milk and jaggery for a thicker, creamy dessert.
Pazham Nurukku combines sautéed ripe bananas, jaggery, coconut, cardamom and roasted oats, and can be served with pappadams.
- Who
- The recipes are presented by Devakumar Rayappan, Vikas Seth, Ajay Augustin and Reshma.
- What
- Four dessert recipes are offered as wholesome options for an Onam feast.
- When
- The article was last updated and first published on August 24, 2026.
- Where
- The recipes draw on Kerala flavours and are intended for the Onam table.
- Why
- They offer traditional and contemporary ways to prepare festive desserts using ingredients such as jaggery, coconut, oats, chia, tapioca and bananas.
- Desserts featured
- Broken Wheat Pradhaman; Banana Leaf Chia–Tapioca Blanc; Palpayasam With Rolled Oats; Pazham Nurukku With Rolled Oats
- Main traditional flavours
- Coconut, jaggery, cardamom, rice, milk and ripe bananas
- Broken Wheat Pradhaman yield
- 10 portions, with a suggested portion size of 120–150 ml
- Chia–tapioca preparation
- 25 minutes, plus one hour of chilling; cooking time is 20 minutes
- Chia–tapioca yield
- 8 portions
- Palpayasam base
- One litre of full-fat milk, one-quarter cup of unakkalari rice and 80 g of rolled oats
- Vegan note
- The Broken Wheat Pradhaman includes ghee, while its coconut milk and jaggery are plant-based ingredients