Red Kidney Beans also knew as Rajma comes in a tinned and ready-to-eat.
Good for making homemade burgers or with salads for color, texture, and extra protein.
Simply heat and serve. Suitable for Vegetarians.
Red Lentils are an essential lentil. Extremely versatile and easy to cook - you can use in curries, nut roasts, lentil breads, soups and more. No need to soak before cooking.
The Indian Bay leaf, Indian names include Biryani aaku, Pattai, Tej Patta, Masala Yele, Tej Pata, Tez Pat, Karuvapatta Illa, Bay leaf, Indian bay leaf. An aromatic leaf commonly used in cooking, can be used whole in a dried or ground form. Used widely in Indian cooking, and is the main ingredient in Garam masala.
Panch Puran is a colourful blend of flavourful seeds. Panch Puran is usually fried in oil or ghee before adding anything else to the pot, flavouring the oil and releasing the aroma of the oils in the seeds. Suitable for Vegetarians.
Green Cardamoms, a member of the ginger family, has a sweet, piquant and highly aromatic flavour and is one of the essential spices of Indian food. Try adding a pod of Cardamom to a pot of coffee or tea for an aromatic flavour or grind pods and add when baking your favourite pasties, buns and apple pie.
Like a black mung bean but slightly sweeter and creamier, use in the same way as mung beans. A base for many dals and goes well with red kidney beans cooked together. Urid Beans are a good source of protein and are high in dietary fibre.
Available in 500g bags.
Split and dehusked to produce a small pale yellow split pea (dal)
Popular in North and South Indian cuisine
Great for creamy dals and soups
Can be used to prepare dumplings
If fried in oil, this dal will turn red and aquire a nutty flavour
Jaggery is often called Cane Sugar. It is a dark, coarse, unrefined sugar made from the sap of a variety of palm tree or from the sugar cane juice. It has a sweet, rich and fudgy caramel flavor and complements anything you would use normal sugar for. Natco Jaggery Goor comes in a solid block and is used for making Indian sweets, and used in tea or coffee just like ordinary sugar.
A tropical herb of the ginger family. A colourful, mildly aromatic and versatile spice used in most Indian dishes. Use sparingly.
Turmeric keeps for only a few months so replace regularly.
Available in 100g bag.
Rice grains pressed flat to increase water aborption and reduce cooking time. Cooks in minutes and is fantastic sweet or savoury. Think couscous but better!