Taste of Home: Authentic Indian Food Delivered to Your Doorstep

Saakshi's Kitchen cooks Punjabi home food in an FSA 5-star kitchen, freezes it straight after cooking, and posts it frozen to your door across UK mainland.

If you have moved cities, moved country, or simply run out of evenings, the thing you miss is rarely restaurant food. It is the ordinary plate — dal, a sabzi, roti or rice — that somebody at home used to put in front of you. That is the plate we cook.

Key takeaways

• Family recipes, cooked in small batches in one FSA 5-star kitchen.
• Masala built from scratch every batch — no standing gravy base.
• Spiced, not hot — the heat level a family actually cooks at.
• Delivered frozen; cook straight from frozen on a weeknight.
• UK mainland delivery — check your postcode, some areas we cannot reach.

What does "taste of home" actually mean here?

It means the everyday repertoire, not the showpiece one. Dal, rajma, chole, kadhi, a seasonal sabzi, paneer dishes, biryani — the rotation a household actually runs across a week, portioned as one person's dinner rather than as a sharing dish for a table of four.

Restaurant Indian is celebration food. Ghar ka khana is Tuesday night. Both are good; only one of them is what you miss.

How is the food cooked?

In small batches, by one family, from recipes that were handed down rather than developed for a menu. Every dish starts with its own masala — onion, tomato, ginger and garlic, bhuno'd until the fat separates — because there is no standing base gravy to ladle from. Dal is finished with a real tadka at the end, the way it is finished at home.

Spices are ground and blended in our own kitchen rather than bought as one all-purpose curry powder, so haldi, jeera and dhania each do their own job.

Why is the food delivered frozen?

Because it is the honest way to send home-cooked food the length of the country. Meals are frozen soon after they come off the hob, so what you open is the batch we cooked rather than something that has spent days in transit. Keep the meals frozen, cook or reheat straight from frozen until piping hot, and do not refreeze once defrosted.

How do you order?

Three steps, and none of them involve a phone call.

1. Check your postcode — we deliver across UK mainland, and some areas we cannot reach.
2. Choose your meals from this week's menu, or pick a weekly plan.
3. The box arrives frozen. Put it in the freezer and cook from frozen whenever you want it.

If you have not used a service like this before, the tiffin guide explains how the weekly plan works.

Can you choose how spicy the food is?

The food is cooked at one level: milder than a restaurant curry, spiced rather than hot. That is the level a family eats at every day, and it is deliberate — it lets the masala come through instead of the chilli. If you want more heat, it is easily added at your end.

Is there a vegetarian menu?

Yes. There is a pure vegetarian weekly plan alongside the mixed menu — dal, rajma, chole, kadhi, paneer and seasonal sabzi are the backbone of Punjabi home cooking, not a side menu. Our kitchen-cooked meats are halal.

Who is it for?

Students who have just left home, professionals with no evening left by 8pm, parents feeding a child in another city, and elderly relatives who should not be standing at a hob. 79% of orders come from returning families, across 16,000+ deliveries, with a 4.6 rating from 800+ verified reviews.

Frequently asked questions

How do the meals arrive?

Frozen, by courier. Keep them in the freezer, cook or reheat straight from frozen until piping hot, and do not refreeze once defrosted.

Which parts of the UK do you deliver to?

We deliver across UK mainland. Some areas we cannot reach — check your postcode on the delivery locations page before ordering.

Is the food very hot?

No. It is milder than a typical restaurant curry — spiced rather than hot, at the level a family cooks at.

Do I need a subscription?

No. You can order a one-off box or take a weekly plan, whichever suits. Both are on the product pages.

Where to go next

• This week's menu — see what is cooking right now.
• What is a tiffin service? — how the weekly plan works, end to end.
• Check your postcode — we deliver across UK mainland. Some areas we cannot reach.