Website offers cooking guides to Onam dishes

f there is any culinary doubt about any particular item in the luxuriant ‘sadya’ spread, there is no need to wait for a popular cookery show on TV. Just log on to www.indiavideo.org. Recipes, and more usefully cooking video guides or video tutorials, of more than 25 sadya-related dishes, from ‘inchi thairu’ and ‘manga pachadi’ to ‘ada pradhaman,’ are featured in a special Onam gallery of the website.  The site, maintained by Invis Multimedia, is developed in association with Kerala Tourism. The website is mainly intended for non-resident Keralites. ‘’Around 1.85 million Keralites work outside Kerala and the video guides will help them prepare the sadya at home,’’ a statement here said. Besides giving recipes as text, the site offers online video tutorials of dishes. ‘’Even non-Malayalis can test these recipes since the narration is in English. Dishes, which have a ritualistic importance, like the ‘poovada’ (steam-baked pancake), have also been included,’’ the release said. Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor had tweeted about the site on August 17. Though he admits he had not yet tried these dishes himself, he reveals that the voice on the video is that of his sister Sobha.  www.indiavideo.org is a website featuring the geographical, and cultural marvels of the country. The portal is envisaged as an online video encyclopaedia on India. Only professional video clips are included in the site, the statement said.