Bakery & Cooking

TRS Semolina Fine is durum wheat milled to a fine grain — smoother and more powdery than the coarse rava, closer in feel to flour. The fine cut absorbs liquid quickly and sets soft, which is what a smooth halwa or a batter needs.

Best for

• Sooji halwa and sheera
• Rava idli, and soft idli and dosa batters
• Sooji ka cheela, and light baking

How to cook it

Roast it in ghee over low heat for five to seven minutes until it turns a shade darker and smells nutty — fine semolina catches faster than coarse, so keep it moving. For halwa, use roughly 1 part semolina to 3 parts hot liquid, added slowly and stirred hard to stop lumps. Do not substitute it for coarse rava in upma; it goes sticky.

Pack and storage

500 g. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Ja! Breadcrumbs 1kg

Durum Wheat Semolina 500g

Wholemeal Spelt Flour 1kg

Bad Reichenhaller Iodized Salt + Fluorine 500g

Diamant Roggenmehl Type 1150 is a medium-dark German rye flour, milled to the grade most German rye and mixed-grain breads are built on.

Type 1150 keeps more of the grain than a pale flour, which is what gives rye bread its darker crumb and its distinctive, slightly tangy, earthy taste. It is the usual choice for Roggenmischbrot, Bauernbrot and sourdough starters, and it is normally blended with wheat flour, since rye on its own gives a dense loaf.

Rye dough is stickier and less elastic than wheat dough — expect to work it with wet hands or a scraper rather than heavy kneading. Store the 1kg pack sealed, cool and dry.

Mario Cardamom Rusk is a twice-baked, crunchy bread infused with the warm, sweet flavour of cardamom. A popular South Asian tea-time treat, perfect for dunking in chai.

Aachi Ragi Flour Roasted is finger millet ground to a fine flour and roasted, so the raw, slightly bitter edge of plain ragi flour is already cooked out. It is dark brown, closer to a wholemeal flour in weight, and being pure millet it is naturally gluten-free.

Best for

• Ragi mudde and ragi sangati
• Ragi roti and dosa
• Ragi malt and porridge

How to cook it

For porridge or malt, mix the flour with a little cold water first to a smooth slurry, then pour it into simmering water or milk while stirring; adding flour straight to hot liquid guarantees lumps. For mudde, boil water with a pinch of salt, add the flour in one go, and work it against the sides of the pot with a wooden stick until it comes together as a smooth ball. For roti, make a stiff dough with hot water and pat it out by hand rather than rolling, as ragi dough has no gluten to hold it together.

Pack and storage

1kg pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, in an airtight container.

Telugu Foods Wheat Rava Coarse is broken wheat at a coarse grind, closer to cracked grain than to fine semolina, and it keeps the bran. It cooks to a firmer, chewier result than Bombay rava and takes longer to soften, which is why it suits savoury pots and breakfast porridges rather than delicate rava dosa.

Best for

• Godhuma upma and savoury broken-wheat dishes
• Wheat rava pongal and khichdi with moong dal
• Sweet or savoury breakfast porridge

How to cook it

Rinse once and drain. In a pressure cooker, use one part rava to three parts water and cook for two or three whistles, then let the pressure drop on its own. In an open pot it needs closer to four parts water and fifteen to twenty minutes of simmering, topped up as it thickens. Temper mustard seeds, chana dal, green chilli and curry leaves in oil first and add the drained rava to that, so the grains take on the flavour as they swell.

Pack and storage

1kg pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, in an airtight container.

Telugu Foods Rice Rava is coarsely broken rice, the granular rice used where a recipe wants the grain to hold its shape but cook in minutes rather than the better part of an hour. It cooks softer and stickier than wheat rava, and being pure rice it is naturally gluten-free.

Best for

• Rice rava upma and uppudu pindi
• Idli batter made with urad dal
• Rice porridge and simple breakfast dishes

How to cook it

For upma, temper mustard seeds, chana dal, green chilli and curry leaves in oil, add two and a half parts boiling water to one part rava with salt, then pour the rava in slowly while stirring so it does not clump. Cover and steam on the lowest heat for five to six minutes until the grains are soft and no water sits at the bottom. For idli batter, soak the rava for twenty minutes, squeeze out the water, and fold it into ground urad dal before fermenting.

Pack and storage

1kg pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, in an airtight container.

Telugu Foods Roasted Wheat Rava Fine is fine wheat semolina that has already been roasted, so the step most people skip or rush at the stove is done. Being fine rather than coarse, it cooks quickly and gives a softer, smoother result, and being pre-roasted it is far less likely to turn into a lumpy mass.

Best for

• Quick weekday upma
• Kesari, sheera and rava halwa
• Rava kesari-style sweets and rava ladoo

How to cook it

There is no need to roast it again, though thirty seconds in a dry pan does no harm. For upma, bring two and a half parts water to a rolling boil with salt, then pour in one part rava in a thin stream while stirring without stopping, which is the only reliable way to avoid lumps. Cover and cook on the lowest heat for three minutes, then rest it off the heat for two more. For halwa, use milk in place of water and add the sugar after the rava has absorbed the liquid.

Pack and storage

1kg pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, in an airtight container.

Aiva Roasted Chana, sold as daria or pottukadalai, is split chickpeas that have already been dry-roasted, so they need no cooking at all. They are crisp, nutty and mild, and in South Indian cooking they do a job no other ingredient does: ground into chutney, they thicken it without water and without cooking.

Best for

• Coconut chutney for idli and dosa
• Chutney powders and masala blends
• Ladoo and other sweets, once ground to flour
• Chivda, namkeen, sundal and snacking by the handful

Using it

For chutney, grind two tablespoons with coconut, green chilli and a little water; add it a spoon at a time, as it thickens quickly. For a chutney powder, grind dry with red chilli, garlic and salt to a coarse meal. Eaten as they are, a short toss in a hot dry pan with salt and chilli powder wakes them up.

Pack and storage

500 g. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, in an airtight container so they stay crisp.

TRS Ragi Flour is ground finger millet — a wholegrain flour with a deep reddish-brown colour and an earthy, nutty taste quite unlike wheat. It is naturally gluten-free, so on its own it will not hold together the way wheat dough does.

Best for

• Ragi mudde, the Karnataka staple
• Ragi roti and ragi dosa
• Ragi malt and porridge
• Blending into chapati atta for a wholegrain loaf of flavour

How to cook it

For rotis, knead with hot water and work the dough while it is still warm, or mix it half and half with wheat atta so it rolls out properly. For porridge and malt, roast the flour in a dry pan for a couple of minutes first — it deepens the flavour and stops lumps forming — then whisk it into cold water before it ever meets heat.

Pack and storage

1 kg. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Schani Bajri Flour is ground pearl millet — bajra atta — a greyish flour with a distinctly nutty, slightly earthy taste, in a 1kg pack.

It is the flour for bajra roti and bhakri, eaten across Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra through the winter months, usually with butter or ghee, jaggery, garlic chutney or a stew. It also goes into thalipeeth, khichu and bajra khichdi.

Bajra has no gluten, so the dough will not stretch like wheat: knead it with warm water, keep it soft, and pat the roti out by hand or between sheets rather than rolling it thin. Mixing in a little wheat flour makes it easier to handle. Store sealed in a cool, dry place — millet flour is best used within a few months of opening.

TRS Coconut Powder is finely ground desiccated coconut — dry, pale and powdery rather than the shredded flakes sold for baking. Because it is so fine it dissolves into a gravy instead of sitting on top of it.

Best for

• South Indian and Sri Lankan coconut curries
• Chutneys, masala pastes and korma
• Laddu, barfi and coconut sweets

How to cook it

For a gravy, soak two or three tablespoons in warm water or warm milk for ten minutes, then blend to a smooth paste and stir it in near the end — added dry it will stay grainy. Do not let it boil hard once in, or the sauce splits. For sweets, dry-roast briefly first to bring out the aroma.

Pack and storage

300 g. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

TRS Rice Flour is finely milled white rice — soft, powdery and pure white, with no gluten in it at all. It behaves nothing like wheat flour: it gives crispness rather than stretch, which is why it turns up in fried batters and thin dosas.

Best for

• Rava dosa, neer dosa and appam
• Kozhukattai, modak and idiyappam
• Crisping up pakora batter, and thickening sweets

How to cook it

For steamed doughs, add boiling water to the flour rather than the other way round, stir with a spoon, then knead once it is cool enough to handle. For batters, keep them thin and pourable — rice flour thickens as it stands, so check again just before cooking. A spoonful added to a pakora batter is the simplest way to make it crisper.

Pack and storage

500 g. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

TRS Coconut Powder is finely ground desiccated coconut — dry, pale and powdery rather than the shredded flakes sold for baking. Because it is so fine it dissolves into a gravy instead of sitting on top of it.

Best for

• South Indian and Sri Lankan coconut curries
• Chutneys, masala pastes and korma
• Laddu, barfi and coconut sweets

How to cook it

For a gravy, soak two or three tablespoons in warm water or warm milk for ten minutes, then blend to a smooth paste and stir it in near the end — added dry it will stay grainy. Do not let it boil hard once in, or the sauce splits. For sweets, dry-roast briefly first to bring out the aroma.

Pack and storage

300 g. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

TRS Rice Flour is finely milled white rice — soft, bright white and free of gluten. It gives crispness rather than stretch, which is why it belongs in fried batters and thin lacy dosas rather than in bread. This is the 1.5 kg pack.

Best for

• Rava dosa, neer dosa and appam
• Kozhukattai, modak and idiyappam
• Crisping pakora batter, and thickening sweets

How to cook it

For steamed doughs, pour boiling water onto the flour, stir with a spoon, and knead once it is cool enough to touch. For batters, keep them thin — rice flour keeps thickening as it stands, so check the consistency again right before you cook. A couple of spoonfuls stirred into a pakora batter is the easiest way to get a crisper finish.

Pack and storage

1.5 kg. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

TRS Gram Flour is besan, milled from split brown chickpeas — pale yellow, savoury, and naturally gluten-free. This is the 2 kg pack, the size that makes sense if you fry pakora regularly or cook for a large household.

Best for

• Pakora, bhajia and fritter batters in quantity
• Kadhi, besan chilla and dhokla
• Besan laddu, Mysore pak, and thickening gravies

How to cook it

Whisk the flour into the water gradually rather than the reverse — besan lumps at the first opportunity. Pakora batter wants the thickness of double cream and ten minutes of rest. For kadhi, blend the besan into cold yoghurt and raise the heat slowly, stirring, so it does not split. Either way, cook it a good ten minutes to lose the raw taste.

Pack and storage

2 kg. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Schani Jaggery Cubes (gur) — unrefined cane sugar in handy cubes, 500g. Rich, caramel-like sweetness for chai, payasam, laddoos, chikki and dal.

Store in a cool, dry place in a closed container.

Buttertoast Harrybrot 500g

Sammy´s Super Sandwich 750g