Every article from the Chandra Foods blog in one place: Indian snacks, nuts and seeds, dried fruit, recipes, festivals and healthy snacking for UK homes.
Walk into a Gujarati kitchen before Diwali and you’ll smell it before you see it: sesame, cumin and hot oil, with a coil of dough sizzling in the pan. Ask the family what they’re making and they’ll say chakri. Ask a Maharashtrian neighbour and you’ll hear chakli. Ask a friend from Chennai and it’s murukku….
In a Gujarati home, chai is never served alone. The kettle goes on, and someone reaches for the tin, or the steel dabba, or the big glass jar on the top shelf. The best snacks for chai are dry, crunchy and salty-spicy, and they make a strong, sweet, milky cup taste even better. Three of…
Plan your Navratri in the UK with farali snacks, nuts, gathiya and Dussehra fafda. Authentic Gujarati snacks from Chandra Foods, delivered nationwide.
For Hindu households in the UK, vrat days come round more often than most people outside the community realise. Ekadashi twice a month, Shivratri, Janmashtami, the nine days of Navratri, Karva Chauth – each with its own food rules, all falling under the umbrella of farali eating. Which farali chevda counts as a proper fasting…
Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November in the UK, and in most Gujarati homes the first sign that it has arrived isn’t the diyas on the windowsill. It’s the steel plate on the coffee table. Thin yellow strips, thick knobbly sticks, crisp spirals, a small bowl of boondi on the side. That plate of…
Indian snacking has always been about more than just taste – it’s built around variety, texture, and genuinely good ingredients like chickpeas, lentils, nuts, and seeds. The great news is that within this huge and varied tradition, there’s an enormous range of naturally wholesome options, from roasted and baked snacks to protein-rich nuts and seeds,…
There is a particular kind of satisfaction in opening a cupboard and finding everything you need to make a proper chaat, without a last-minute dash to the shops. A packet of sev, a box of papdi, some puri shells, a jar of chutney, and suddenly you can put together something that tastes like it came…
Pre-made snack boxes are convenient, but they’re built with the average customer in mind, not you specifically. If you know you always finish the sev first and never touch the boondi, or you’d take three packs of gathiya over one of everything else, a fixed combo can start to feel like a compromise rather than…
Scrolling through a list of combo boxes can be more confusing than helpful if you’re not entirely sure what each one is actually built for. Is the tea time combo different enough from the everyday nuts combo to justify getting both? Is the nuts and seeds box better for snacking or for smoothies? Rather than…
Open most baking recipes and nuts show up somewhere – folded into a banana loaf, scattered over a tray of cookies, ground into flour for a gluten-free sponge, or simply toasted and pressed onto the side of a cake. The trouble is, not every nut behaves the same way once it hits the oven, and…
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