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Have you looked into Pataks? This company is HUGE in UK. They provide jars with all the ingredients mixed. You need to add an onion, can of tomatoes and some c

Have you looked into Pataks? This company is HUGE in UK. They provide jars with all the ingredients mixed. You need to add an onion, can of tomatoes and some chicken/beef. Read their story here: https://www.pataks.co.uk/our-story https://www.pataks.co.uk/our-story

mitraraman 8y ago
Super interesting, thank you!
- keithpeter 8y ago
  UK, Birmingham, within a stone's throw of the Balti triangle... Also East End foods and Natco as bulk cheap national brands for various pulses. The local (predominantly UK born Pakistani/Lahore oriented) shops stock Laziza prepared masalas for various meals (chana, chicken, fish &c) and the fearsome mixed pickles. I find the prepared masalas very salty. 25Kg sacks of rice and 10Kg sacks of attar as well :-)
- Symbiote 8y ago
  I used to use these sauces a lot, as a student in the UK and for a few years after. There's a scale: 1. Prepare everything from scratch. For anything that isn't fairly simple, this is reserved for special occasions. 2. Use pre-prepared sauces like Patak's (there are also cheaper ones) This still feels like "cooking", and scales up nicely to multiple hungry students without costing much more. 3. Microwave a chilled ready-meal [2] There's a big price range for this, say £1-6 per portion. The cheap ones aren't very nice, and the expensive ones were too expensive as students, but were fine if I felt lazy once I had a job. 4. Order take-away. I couldn't afford this. 5. Pour boiling water over instant noodles. No-one admits to doing this sober. [2] https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meals-for-one#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10123&categoryId=267480&parent_category_rn=267397&top_category=267397&pageSize=36&orderBy=FAVOURITES_ONLY%7CSEQUENCING%7CTOP_SELLERS&searchTerm=&beginIndex=0&facet=&facet=4294965042 https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meal... [N] There are suppliers in the USA: https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks

mitraraman 8y ago

Super interesting, thank you!

keithpeter 8y ago
UK, Birmingham, within a stone's throw of the Balti triangle... Also East End foods and Natco as bulk cheap national brands for various pulses. The local (predominantly UK born Pakistani/Lahore oriented) shops stock Laziza prepared masalas for various meals (chana, chicken, fish &c) and the fearsome mixed pickles. I find the prepared masalas very salty. 25Kg sacks of rice and 10Kg sacks of attar as well :-)
Symbiote 8y ago
I used to use these sauces a lot, as a student in the UK and for a few years after. There's a scale: 1. Prepare everything from scratch. For anything that isn't fairly simple, this is reserved for special occasions. 2. Use pre-prepared sauces like Patak's (there are also cheaper ones) This still feels like "cooking", and scales up nicely to multiple hungry students without costing much more. 3. Microwave a chilled ready-meal [2] There's a big price range for this, say £1-6 per portion. The cheap ones aren't very nice, and the expensive ones were too expensive as students, but were fine if I felt lazy once I had a job. 4. Order take-away. I couldn't afford this. 5. Pour boiling water over instant noodles. No-one admits to doing this sober. [2] https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meals-for-one#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10123&categoryId=267480&parent_category_rn=267397&top_category=267397&pageSize=36&orderBy=FAVOURITES_ONLY%7CSEQUENCING%7CTOP_SELLERS&searchTerm=&beginIndex=0&facet=&facet=4294965042 https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meal... [N] There are suppliers in the USA: https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks