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Malabar food festival-2009

The Malabar food festival held at Maroli on 28th and 29th of November was a grand sucess.This post is dedicated to all our wellwishers,friends and customers who have helped to make this event a wonderful memorable time.

we peresented a variety of seafood and meat dishes like Squid Thoran,Fish Moilee,Crabcurry,Mutton curry ,chicken roast ,mussel fry,thoran,kadala curry,oyster stew and a lot lot more.

A variety of starters like fish cutlet,arikadukka,pakora and a variety of breads like appam, idiappam,puttu made the torontorians say WOW .


A variety of pickles,mango,fish,mussels and lime

And last but not the least the desserts and sweets burfi,jelebi,kinathappam ,payasam were all a wonder to torontorians and we were glad that we saved them a trip to Malabar coast by hosting a food festival here .


With the helps of our experienced and hardworking chefs and our wonderful friends who supported us we were able to present a variety of malabari dishes to the people of toronto.It was a pleasure to watch people taste the cuisine of our land in this far away land.

Malabar food festival at Maroli

With the inuagral food festival in 2008 becoming a huge success ,we have planned for the 2nd Malabar Food Festival for the year 2009 Hosted by Maroli Restaurant . The Malabar region of India lies along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of the present-day Indian state of Kerala. Maroli holds the distinction of being the only Malabari (Kerala)restaurant in Toronto.

On November 28th & 29 th, Maroli will showcase savoury items from Malabar and allow visitors to taste unique Malabar cuisine, which has been influenced by Dutch, British, French, Portuguese and Arab culinary arts from various regimes in the 17th through 20th century.

Exotic dishes at the event include Oyster stew , Pan Fried Sardines, Malabar Fish Biriyani ,Fish Moilee , Appam, Shrimp Malabari ,Squid Thoran, Kallumakai Fry(Mussels) ,Kappa(Cassava) ,Nei Choru, , Chemeen curry(Shrimps) and Crab Curry .




A $25 .00 entry fee allows foodies access to this unique Indian culinary experience which includes viewing of live food preparation, as well relishing in intricately carved fruits and vegetables.This intimate experience is open to the public from Noon to 10pm on Saturday, November 28th and Sunday until 8 pm , November 29th at Maroli, Toronto's only Malabari & Indian restaurant.

Maroli- got rennovated

I am back here at my blog after a long break.Maroli was getting rennovated and that was the reason for my absense.We changed the counter, the bar settings, the walls and the floor .And now since its done we are all ready to host a "Malabar food festival " at our place on 28th and 29th of November.


We will soon be adding more to our menu.And i will keep you posted about the changes on the menu very soon.Do have a look at current menu at our website www.maroli.ca.

Onasadhya at Maroli

Its onam ( a festival) time back in kerala and we at maroli celebrated it by serving sadhya for lunch .Sadhya is a traditional kerala lunch.It is usually served on a Plantain leaf .It is a pure vegetarian meal consisting of starters,main course and dessert.Sharkara upperri (made with banana and jaggery) and bananachips were the starters.


And the main course consisted of rice,sambar(vegetables and lentil cooked with spices and tamarind and finished with corrainader leaves),pineapple pachadi (pineapple cooked in coconut,yougurt and spices), olan (winter melon and long beans in coconut milk ),mathan and payar curry (pumpkin and beans),Avial (carrot,Yam,rawnaana,drumstick cooked in coconut and yougurt and finished with coconut oil),pappadom ,Thoran (stir fried vegetables with grated coconut),puliinchi (ginger and tamarind),kalan( yogurt and coconut based curry) and rasam (a fiery hot water made of black pepper,tamarind tomato and spices) and spicy lime pickle.

And the sadhya is finished with a payasam ,parippu pradaman (moong dal cooked with coconut milk and jaggery and finished with coconut tidbits) and a small banana

We were pleased to serve our customers with a variety of vegetarian dishes thats is quite unique and which depicts our land and its culture.Onam is a festival of celebration and we were able to bring that celebation to a land far away from kerala.

Fruit carving

Its been more than a week since i posted something in my blog...And today i am here with an interesting topic "Art on fruits or fruit carving ".
Knife have always been known for just cutting n chopping.But our chef Raj has brought out the creavity with the help of knife.Its an artists mind that has seen the possibility of creating a picture without the help of paint brush, pencil or a paper.
Isnt that an fabulous sight to see a flower carved out of a water melon.


Who other than a inborn artist could have imagined to have made a swan out of a cucumber, a watermelon and a carrot

The world of art is such a wide one and an artist mind serches for creating things that are unique and extraordinary and at the same time pleasing to our eyes and soul.
So here at maroli our chef Raj is ready to serve his creavity for any occassion say it a birthday or a wedding.
Make your guests say "WOW" !!!!! to see that wonderful art dispalyed at your grand party !!!

Maroli caters for any occasion

Maroli has been in catering industry since 2004 .We have catered for more than 500 people.And today it was our priviledge to have catered for the wedding of the senior advisor of David Miller's (city mayor) office.

The menu being :
The celebrity among Indian dishes -"The Butter Chicken"


The creamy and rich " Palak Paneer "



The queen of all salads "Garden green salad"

Authentic Indian savoury salad " Raita "


Typical kerala beef fry-" Beef syrian "


Also accompanied by peas pulao and veg khorma . Our chefs Shiju ,Jagathy and Raj have always been at their best serving people from diffrent ethinicity.Its a team effort that brings success to us and we are grateful to our skilled staff who have always presented the best of their ability whether it was a catering a dine-in takeout or a delivery order.
All of our current staff have vast experience in food industry and have always and will continue to put a dedicated effort to serve the people.