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Innovators in hassle-free Indian cooking at home
Kitchen Guru was founded in 2002 by husband and wife team, Chandra and Rekha Parmar but the real culinary mastery had begun much sooner.
From a young age, Rekha had shown a prodigious talent in the kitchen and enjoyed making wholesome meals for family and friends. She quickly developed a sharp understanding of the uses of herbs and spices in traditional & classical Indian dishes and loved to conjure up new recipes, always ensuring that the shopping list included only fresh and original ingredients and no sauces, pastes or mysterious curry powders!
Her interest in cooking healthy, fresh meals for her growing family and entertaining friends to dinner continued. Often guests would leave begging for the recipe only to find a daunting list of ingredients, many of which were hard to find and required only in small quantities. Now, as well as preparing delicious meals, Rekha found herself providing sachets of exotic, rare spices to save her friends the hassle of hunting them down!
This inspired Rekha and her husband Chandra, who had a background in product design, to create a unique, new product for the cook-at-home market. They wanted something that would deliver an authentic taste of Indian cooking to its devotees, enabling them to create fresh, hassle-free meals.
The idea was simple. Kitchen Guru would select, measure and pack the finest herbs and spices with a foolproof recipe card and cooking instructions in exactly the right quantities for a meal for 4. Home cooks would only need to add a few fresh ingredients – meat, garlic, chillies, onions and so on – and Kitchen Guru would provide the years of wisdom, heritage and skill that lies in real Indian cooking.
Rekha and Chandra were gripped. They designed the packaging and manufacturing process, converted their garage and single-handed started production in autumn 2002. Demand quickly outstripped production and, in 2003, they moved into a dedicated production unit with state-of-the-art machinery and several extra pairs of hands!
And the success story that is Kitchen Guru has continued. Unusually for the food business, the innovative packaging and quality of the product were granted a patent and to date Kitchen Guru has won 10 prestigious awards.
Today, Kitchen Guru is an internationally renowned company and supplies to over 300 independent retailers including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, House of Fraser, Chatsworth Farm Shop and Castle Howard while also exporting to 8 countries.