From farm to feast: traditional treats for the festival season

Dharani Agro Farms, Ramanathapuram

Dharani Agro Farms astatine Kanikarai successful Ramanathapuram has been abuzz with enactment implicit the past 3 weeks. The farm’s founder, Dharani Murugesan, who transformed a agelong of barren onshore into a thriving endeavor 15 years ago, continues to make employment opportunities for section women. Every Deepavali, helium engages women from neighbouring villages to hole accepted sweets and savouries. “We decided to connection value-added products, and that’s however Dharani Food Products was launched 7 years ago,” says Murugesan. Nearly 80% of the earthy materials utilized for the preparations are sourced from his farm.

The workplace supplies reddish atom adhirasam and murukku for weddings done the year, portion during the festival season, it offers an array of sweets including Mysore pak, jangiri, boondi laddu, paal koa, adhirasam, wheat halwa, adust effect laddu, and badusha. Under savouries, the fashionable choices are ribbon pakoda, mixture, murukku, and capsicum sev. No preservatives oregon achromatic sweetener is used, and everything is prepared utilizing A2 ghee and cold-pressed oils.

Orders tin beryllium shipped cookware India. Call 9488728194.

Pudhugai Organics, Pudukottai

Ahila Bharathi, CEO, Pudhugai Organics successful Pudukottai, is engaged handling orders from crossed the state this festive season. “Ours is simply a corporate of 1,364 farmers from astir 54 villages successful Pudukottai district. All earthy materials are sourced from this web of farmers,” says Ahila. Production is taken up by women hired during the play to hole accepted sweets and savouries. This year, the marque has introduced millet cookies successful 8 varieties, priced astatine ₹70 for a 100 gram box. “No maida is used, and nattu sakkarai (country sugar) is our sweetening agent,” she adds.

For Deepavali, Pudhugai Organics offers kavuni atom adhirasam, boondi ladoo, thinai manoharam, Madras mixture, murukku, ribbon pakoda, and kara sev. The squad has besides developed a ready-to-use adhirasam maavu, allowing customers to bargain the mixture, signifier it into tiny discs, and deep-fry astatine home. “We wanted to simplify this different labour-intensive and time-consuming process,” says Ahila. The adhirasam premix is disposable successful kavuni arisi (₹150), thooyaalli atom (₹100), and thinai (₹120) variants.

Orders tin beryllium shipped crossed India. Call 9965593143.

Kamarkat Srini, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai

RSrinivas, a mechanical engineer, made a bold vocation displacement successful 2013 to prosecute his passionateness for wholesome, accepted food. He launched Marabu Suvai successful Thiruvanmiyur for integrated and vegan nutrient products. The marque has precocious been rebranded arsenic Kamarkat Srini and has go known for its kamarkat, a accepted Tamil Nadu candy made with coconut and jaggery.

Srini remains committed to accepted methods successful each measurement of nutrient preparation. His sweets and savouries are made utilizing cold-pressed groundnut and coconut lipid and are cooked successful clay pots and formed robust vessels. Raw ingredients are sourced straight from farms successful Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, with a absorption connected practice rice, integrated jaggery, and coconut. All products are wholly vegan.

For Deepavali, Kamarkat Srini offers hampers, starting astatine ₹120 for a 50-gram enactment of kamarkat, ladoos, and mixture. Corporate orders are customisable, for clients to prime products of their choice. Heritage atom ladoos made with mappilai samba, kattuyanam, iluppaipoo samba, and achromatic kavuni atom are peculiarly popular. For accepted snacks similar murukku and thattai, helium uses mappilai samba and thooyamalli rice

Pan Inida and overseas shipping is provided. Call 7200477403.

Sempulam, T, Nagar, Chennai

Sempulam Sustainable Solutions, an organisation that has been moving connected preserving autochthonal and practice atom varieties of the state and supporting tiny and marginal farmers, has cookies and savoury items , made with practice atom for the festive season. Heritage bites (₹700), their accepted atom cookies assortment has food bites (mullankaima rice), choco delight (black rice), vegan delight (thanga samba) and shortbread (seeraga samba). The cookies are maida free, gluten escaped and made with jaggery.

Their different gifting option, atom savouries delight, is priced astatine ₹700 ). These savouries are baked, vegan and gluten free. Made from accepted rice, the savoury snacks comprise kachori papdi, moringa bites, gongura lavash, nutty aval substance and spiced curry leafage biscuits. They besides connection a cookies and savouries combo priced astatine at ₹1,100. All products person a support beingness of 90 days.

Pan India transportation is available. Order online astatine www.sempulam.com/gifting.