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.
Pecan pie is one of those desserts that most people in Britain have eaten in a café or at a friend’s Thanksgiving dinner, but very few have made at home. Part of the reason is the ingredients list. American recipes call for corn syrup, which isn’t easy to find here, and use cups instead of…
A good Christmas cake is mostly fruit. Flour, butter and eggs are only there to hold it together. So when the cake turns out dry, bland or full of hard little bits, the fruit is usually to blame. Pick the right dried fruit, soak it properly and give it time, and even a simple recipe…
Every family has one Diwali sweet that appears without fail. In plenty of Gujarati and South Indian homes, it’s coconut barfi. Soft, fragrant with cardamom, finished with a scatter of nuts, and usually gone from the tin before the guests have even arrived. The good news is that you don’t need fresh coconuts, a grater…
Search for goji berries superfood and you’ll find bold promises everywhere. Ancient secrets, miracle nutrients, a cure for this and that. Underneath the marketing sits a small, sweet-tart red berry with a genuinely long history and a very easy way into your kitchen. This guide covers where goji berries come from, what can honestly be…
Ask an Indian household what to eat when digestion feels sluggish and you’ll hear a familiar list: warm water, ajwain, saunf, buttermilk, a spoonful of ghee. Prunes rarely make the list, yet more and more people are asking about dried prunes for digestion. This guide looks at prunes the way an Ayurvedic kitchen might: as…
Open the dried fruit shelf and you’ll usually find two bags of raisins sitting side by side: one dark, plump and almost black, the other pale and golden. They look like relatives, and they are, but they don’t behave the same way in the kitchen. If you’re about to buy golden raisins online, or wondering…
Dried fruit is one of those foods that quietly shows up everywhere in UK households. It is in breakfast bowls, mixed into trail mixes, packed into lunchboxes, and often sitting in the cupboard as a “better snack” option. Because it comes from fruit, most people naturally assume it is healthy without thinking too much about…
Open almost any kitchen cupboard in the UK and you will find a bag of raisins. They go into porridge, Christmas cake, lunchboxes and trail mix without much thought. Things get trickier at the shelf, though, where golden and black raisins sit side by side. Is one healthier? Does it matter which one you bake…
Sweet, chewy and naturally nourishing, dried fruits are making a real comeback in UK kitchens. As more people move away from ultra‑processed snacks, dried fruits have become an easy way to enjoy natural sweetness while still feeling like you are having a treat. That matters because modern UK shoppers want snacks that feel both indulgent…
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