Olan Olan is a true Kerala dish made with coconut milk and pumpkin as the main ingredients. Olan is one of those dishes in a Kerala sadya that lends more variety than flavour since it’s quite mild and doesn’t necessarily hold its own when served with an avial or thoran. Ingredients: Raw Banana/ Ilavan – 50 g Pumpkin – 15 g Achinga Payar – 1 Vanpayar (Soaked) – 25 g Green Chillies – 1 nos Coconut Oil – 10 ml Coconut Milk – 50 ml Curry leaves Salt – as required Method: Cut the Raw Banana and Pumpkin as thin slices, and Achinga Payar length-wise. Cook the vegetables along with salt and water covered with a lid on a hard bottomed vessel. Cook the vanpayar separately and add it to the other vegetables. Pour the coconut milk, coconut oil and curry leaves on the top and serve hot.