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Aachi Paneer Butter Masala is a rich, creamy spice blend for the beloved North Indian cottage cheese dish. Its tomato, butter and cashew-inspired flavour profile creates a restaurant-quality, mildly spiced gravy at home.

• Creamy tomato-butter spice profile
• Restaurant-quality results at home
  

Aachi Paneer Tikka Masala is a smoky, tandoori-inspired spice blend for marinating and grilling paneer. It gives cottage cheese the classic charred exterior and bold flavour of restaurant paneer tikka.

• Tandoori-style marinade for paneer
• Bold grilled and charred flavour profile
  

Aachi Pani Puri Kit brings together the crisp hollow puris and the masala for the spiced water, so the street-food snack can be put together at home without hunting down the parts separately. The masala is sour and salty with mint and cumin behind it, which is the flavour people are actually after when they order pani puri.

Best for

• Pani puri and golgappa at home
• Party and gathering snacks, since guests assemble their own
• Using the masala on its own over fruit chaat or salad

How to cook it

Stir the masala into cold water, taste it, and let it stand for twenty to thirty minutes so the flavour comes out fully; adding fresh coriander, mint and a squeeze of lemon lifts it further. Chill the water well, as lukewarm pani is the usual disappointment. Boiled potato and soaked chickpeas make the standard filling. Crack the top of each puri, fill it, dip and eat it in one, and assemble only as you go, because a filled puri collapses within seconds.

Pack and storage

133g pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Aachi Pani Puri Masala is the authentic spice blend for making the flavoured water (pani) used in India's most popular street food. Simply mix with water for the perfect tangy, spicy, minty puri filling water.

• Authentic tangy-spicy pani puri water spice blend
• Features mint, amchur, black salt and cumin
  

Aachi Pav Bhaji Masala captures the iconic buttery, tangy and mildly spiced flavour of Mumbai's famous street food. Use it to make authentic pav bhaji from mixed vegetables in minutes.

• Buttery tangy spice blend for Mumbai Street food
• Balanced spice profile for the whole family
  

Aachi Pepper Chicken Masala is a bold, peppery spice blend for the popular South Indian dry pepper chicken dish. Featuring whole cracked black pepper, fennel and aromatic spices, it delivers intense heat and fragrance.

• Intense black pepper-forward spice blend
• Ideal for dry-style South Indian pepper chicken
  

Aachi Prawn Fry Masala is a coastal seafood spice blend designed to create perfectly marinated, pan-fried prawns with a bold, spiced crust. Ideal for both dry fry and semi-gravy prawn preparations.

• Coastal seafood spice blend for prawn dishes
• Bold chilli and pepper for crispy coating
  

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.

Aachi Rasam Powder is a South Indian spice blend ground for rasam, the thin peppery tamarind broth served over rice. Black pepper and cumin lead it, with coriander, red chilli and asafoetida behind them, so it tastes sharp and aromatic rather than heavy.

Best for

• Tomato, pepper and lemon rasam
• Seasoning thin tamarind broths and clear soups
• A pinch stirred into dal, buttermilk curries and vegetable stir-fries

Using it

Allow about one heaped teaspoon per two cups of rasam. Bring tamarind extract to a boil with chopped tomato, salt and a pinch of turmeric, stir in the powder and let it boil two or three minutes so the raw edge cooks off. Add the thin water from cooked toor dal, then pull the pan off the heat the moment it froths at the edges — rasam turns bitter if it boils hard once the dal is in. Finish with a tempering of ghee, mustard seeds and curry leaves, and fresh coriander.

Pack and storage

100g pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Aachi Red Chilli Powder is made from premium dried red chillies, ground to a vibrant, fiery powder. It delivers consistent heat and colour to curries, marinades and everyday Indian cooking.

• Vibrant red colour and consistent heat
• Made from premium dried red chillies
  

Aachi Rice Idly Mix is a ready idli batter mix of rice and lentil flour, so the overnight soaking and wet grinding are already done. You add water, let it ferment, and steam. The idlis come out soft and white, much as a home-ground batter would.

Best for

• Soft steamed idlis for breakfast
• Idli with sambar and chutney
• Lunch boxes and easy weekday mornings

How to cook it

Mix the powder with water to a thick batter that drops slowly off a spoon rather than pouring, and leave it covered somewhere warm for six to eight hours, or overnight in a cold kitchen, until it has risen and smells faintly sour. Stir in salt gently, without knocking the air out. Grease the idli plates, fill them three-quarters full, and steam for ten to twelve minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Rest for two minutes before unmoulding.

Pack and storage

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

Aachi Sambar Masala Powder is the general-purpose sambar blend, ground fine and balanced so it works with whatever vegetables are in the house rather than being tuned to one regional style. It is mildly hot with the roasted note that a sambar powder needs and a general curry powder does not have.

Best for

• Everyday sambar with mixed vegetables
• Idli, vada and dosa sambar
• Vegetable kootu and poriyal

Using it

Cook toor dal separately until it mashes easily. Boil the vegetables with tamarind water and salt until tender, then stir in one and a half to two teaspoons of the powder for four servings and let it simmer five minutes before the dal goes in, so the powder cooks out. Adding it at the very end leaves a raw, dusty taste. Finish with mustard seeds, dried red chilli, curry leaves and a pinch of asafoetida fried in oil and poured over off the heat.

Pack and storage

100g pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Aachi Special Bombay Biryani Masala captures the tangy, aromatic style of Mumbai's iconic Bombay biryani. Featuring dried plums, potatoes and a vibrant spice blend, it delivers a unique sweet-spicy flavour profile.

• Authentic Bombay biryani spice profile
• Notes of dried fruit and tangy spices
  

Aachi Tandoori Chicken Masala is the marinade blend for tandoori chicken, carrying both the deep red colour and the spice profile of the clay-oven original so the dish can be made in an ordinary oven or on a grill. It is aromatic and moderately hot, built around chilli, ginger, garlic and warm spices.

Best for

• Whole or jointed tandoori chicken in the oven
• Chicken tikka and kebabs on skewers
• Grilled paneer, prawns and cauliflower

Using it

Marinate in two stages. First rub the scored chicken with lemon juice, salt and a spoon of the masala and leave it twenty minutes, then mix the rest of the masala into thick, hung curd with a little oil and coat the pieces properly. Give it four hours in the fridge, or overnight for a whole bird. Cook hot and fast, around 220C, on a rack so the heat circulates, and brush with butter or oil halfway through to keep the meat from drying.

Pack and storage

100g pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening.

Aachi Tandoori Chicken Masala is a classic clay-oven inspired marinade spice blend that gives chicken its unmistakeable smoky, charred red colour and flavour. Perfect for tandoor, oven or grill cooking.

• Authentic tandoori colour and smoke flavour
• Suitable for oven, grill and BBQ cooking
• Wholesale tray: 100g x 10 packs per tray

Aashirvaad Multigrain Wheat Flour is an atta with other grains and pulses milled in alongside the wheat, which gives a roti a denser bite and a nuttier flavour than plain wheat atta. The dough also behaves differently: it drinks more water, it is less stretchy, and it repays a longer rest before you start rolling.

Best for

• Everyday chapati and phulka
• Paratha, plain or stuffed
• Thepla and puri

How to cook it

Add the water gradually, as this flour takes noticeably more than plain wheat atta, and knead to a soft dough that does not stick to the fingers. Cover it and rest it for at least twenty minutes so the bran softens, or the rotis will come out tough. Roll a little thicker than a plain chapati, since rolled thin this dough tears. Cook on a hot tawa until the surface bubbles, turn once, and press gently with a folded cloth to make it puff.

Pack and storage

5kg pack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening, and keep it in an airtight container away from damp.

Aashirvaad Chakki Atta is whole wheat flour ground on a chakki, a stone mill, so the bran and germ stay in the flour instead of being sifted out. It is what a North Indian kitchen means when it says atta, and it makes rotis that stay soft and pliable for hours rather than stiffening as they cool. This is the 10kg sack for a household that makes roti daily.

Best for

• Everyday chapati, roti and phulka
• Paratha, stuffed or plain
• Puri, bhatura and roti dough for the freezer

How to cook it

Work to roughly two parts flour to one part water by volume, adding the water in stages and kneading for five minutes until the dough is soft and smooth. Rest it, covered, for fifteen to twenty minutes; kneading and resting are what make the difference between a soft roti and a leathery one. Roll evenly, cook on a tawa hot enough that the roti starts to blister within seconds, turn it once, then lift it onto an open flame or press it with a cloth to puff.

Pack and storage

10kg sack. Store in a cool, dry place, sealed after opening. Keep working quantities in an airtight container and the rest of the sack closed and off the floor.