Missing the elaborate meals at your parents’ dinner table, now that you’re back at work? Now, recreate them in a compact kitchen with limited time
Q49 Taste
Renu Kurien wants you to try her fish curry. And she knows you don’t have 90 minutes.
The Chennai-based entrepreneur has just launched a range of curry pastes that enable you to put an elaborate meal on the table in less than 30 minutes. All you have to do is cook the protein – you can choose meat, fish, vegetables or eggs – with this flavorful paste, either with water or coconut milk.
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“When I got married and moved from Cochin to Chennai in 1987, I was in awe of my mother-in-law, who cooked elaborate meals. Our home in Anna Nagar, on Q49, was synonymous with hospitality. So I decided to create a range of products called Q49 to popularize heritage cuisine.”
In 2009, Renu started experimenting with curry paste for her son, who was studying in Canada. “When he visited, I would make curry pastes, which I packed in a freezer box so he could take them back and use them to cook for a few months,” she says. When her daughter moved to America and had a baby boy, Renu filled a series of these pouches in her freezer before returning to India.
“After several trials and trials for more than three years, our product has finally been launched in Chennai,” says Renu, adding that it has a shelf life of one year, and is free from chemical preservatives and additives. Is.
“We only use fresh ingredients, herbs and spices,” she says, explaining that they use retort processing technology, which ensures a long shelf life without the use of artificial preservatives, which As a result a curry tastes and feels just like its mother-in-law’s home-made.
Bestsellers: Kerala Red Fish Curry, Methi Paneer Masala and Chicken Curry Paste. Visit www.q49.in. Shipping all over India.
Tulua
“When I travel from Nashik to Kolhapur only, I can taste such a dramatic change in taste. Then imagine how much diversity the rest of the country has,” says Richa Dave, 27, the founder of Tulua Foods, which offers homestyle, ready-to-cook curry bases inspired by regional cuisines from across the country.
Tulua (‘to rise’ in Sanskrit) was launched in August last year. “With changing lifestyles, many do not have time to prepare family dishes. My idea was to make cooking more accessible. I wanted to store, preserve and preserve regional cuisine through my food pastes,” says Richa.
Tulua currently offers five types of curry pastes: Ghee Roasted from Mangaluru, Goa Vindaloo, Butter Masala from Delhi, Malabar Curry from Kerala and Malaikari from West Bengal. Given the growing demand for regional curry pastes in the Indian market, especially after the pandemic and the associated lockdown, during which people spent more time at home and in their kitchens, Tulua works with chefs to focus on creating such products. Concentrates that are versatile and relatively healthy. , “These do not contain preservatives and we use high quality organic ingredients, for example, our ghee roast paste is used as a pizza topping or pasta sauce,” says Richa.
Bestseller: Malabar Curry, Malaikari and Ghee Roast, Go to www.eattulua.com. All India Shipping
curry tree
“Though our ready-to-cook curry pastes were planned earlier, we finally launched in July at the peak of the pandemic. Given the increase in sales, I believe we launched at the right time,” says Brijesh Jacob, who co-founded Curry Tree with Prajanya Advait.
Brijesh says, “Our idea is to create expert chefs out of our customers and boost their confidence by ensuring the cooking process is error-free.” Encompassing a three-step process, Curry Tree has developed its own range in consultation with a team of chefs and food technologists, highlighting the cuisines of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and West Bengal. They are planning to launch the cuisines of every state eventually.
However, their next launch is an Asian Thai Curry Paste. Research is also on to offer popular bungalows kosh mangosho and railways.
“Our biryani paste has made Sundays enjoyable for many families, as there is no fuss or elaborate process involved. Our fish fry paste can also be used for vegetables like cauliflower and brinjal,” says Brajesh.
Noting that parties and potlucks at home have become more popular in the past few years, due to the pandemic, ready-to-use pastas are becoming more popular due to the convenience of making larger portions to eat. Especially because, as Brijesh emphasizes, “it tastes as good as it does homemade.”
Bestsellers: Chettinad Masala, Fish Fry Paste and Kerala Roast. Visit www.currytreepastes.com. Shipping all over India.
What is retort packing?
a Retort pouches are a type of food packaging made of flexible plastic and laminated metal foils. It allows sterile packaging of a wide variety of food.
The food is first prepared, either raw or cooked, and then sealed in a retort pouch. The pouch is then heated under high pressure inside a retort or autoclave machine to 240–250 °F (116–121 °C) for several minutes.
This process reliably kills all commonly found microorganisms (especially .) clostridium botulinum), prevents it from getting worse. Such packing does not require freezing or refrigeration
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