If you’re building a list of vegan cupboard essentials, Indian snacks deserve a shelf of their own. Gram flour, rice flour, lentils, nuts, seeds and spices are the backbone of traditional Indian snacking, and that’s a lot of plant-based food before you’ve even tried. But “traditionally plant-based” and “vegan” aren’t quite the same thing, because…
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…
Dussehra falls on Tuesday 20 October 2026, and if you grew up in a Gujarati household, you already know what that means before the date is even confirmed. It means an early start, a queue (or a very determined family member who “knows a guy”), and a table that smells of besan, ajwain and hot…
Most Indian kitchens already run on seeds. There’s jeera crackling in the tadka, saunf in a little bowl after dinner and til on the chikki. It’s easy to buy seeds online UK-wide, but the useful part is knowing what to do with them once the pouch arrives. When you add chia, flax, pumpkin or sunflower…
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…
Walk into any Gujarati household in Leicester, Wembley or Manchester during Diwali week and you’ll find the same thing on the coffee table. A wide steel plate. Little heaps of yellow strands, thick spirals, flat wedges dusted with masala, some boondi in a small bowl on the side. The Diwali snacks people talk about online…
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