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Chit Chat Chai - Mandira's Kitchen
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Tea, samosas, and community spirit - all while supporting Home-Start Guildford.

£20.00 Per Person · In stock
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Packed to stay frozen, delivered across mainland UK. Otherwise £9.99.

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Indian Cooking Experiences in the Surrey Hills

Our culinary masterclasses offer an Indian cooking experience unlike any other in Surrey.

Join Mandira in our historic Surrey Hills barn for intimate Indian culinary masterclasses and workshops. These small group experiences explore the spices, techniques and regional traditions behind the dishes of India.

Guests cook together, explore spices and share food around the table in Mandira’s historic barn kitchen overlooking the famous Silent Pool.

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Feast bundles

Curated boxes with everything you need for a proper Indian dinner. You choose the mains, we pack the rest.

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Date Night for Two - Mandira's Kitchen

Date Night for Two

A perfect feast of samosas, rice, your choice of mains, dal, naan and chutney.

£50.00
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4 Portions
Family Feast for Four - Mandira's Kitchen

Family Feast for Four

Your choice of mains with pulao, palak dal, samosas, naan and a chutney.

£75.00
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Serves 6
Six Friends for Dinner - Mandira's Kitchen

Six Friends for Dinner

A generous spread of three mains and all the trimmings for six.

£99.00
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"We don't churn out a curry. Every dish is cooked the way I'd cook it for my own family, the way my grandmother taught me."
Mandira Sarkar, Founder
★ Featured by Nigella Lawson 15 × Great Taste Awards

Our Story

Cooked in a converted cowshed, overlooking Silent Pool

What began as supper clubs in the Surrey Hills is now a kitchen sending proper Indian home cooking across the UK. We cook in small batches, with whole spices we grind ourselves and recipes handed down through generations.

Our chicken comes from family recipes rather than a spec sheet: a Delhi butter chicken, Mandira's mother's cashew and coriander murgh from Calcutta, a Goan xacuti built on dry-roasted coconut, and a dum-cooked biriyani.

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Why Mandira's

The difference you can taste

Frozen curry has a reputation. Ours was built to break it.

Mandira's KitchenThe real thing
The usualSupermarket & takeaway
A 400-year-old Surrey barn you can actually visit
An address on the back of the box
Mandira's own family recipes from Calcutta
A recipe written to hit a price point
Whole spices, ground fresh each morning
Pre-blended powder, shipped in bulk
Cooked properly, then frozen to hold the flavour
Cooked from frozen, or reheated twice
10 minutes from freezer to table
A 40-minute wait, or a delivery fee
Fifteen Great Taste Awards, judged by chefs
A photograph of a chef

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Never An Empty Freezer

Build a curry night in one order

Chicken, a dal, rice and naan. About ten minutes, start to table.

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Fifteen Great Taste Awards · Endorsed by Nigella Lawson · Cooked in the Surrey Hills since 2016

A proper Indian dinner, ready when you are

Cooked in the Surrey Hills, delivered to your door. Keep one in the freezer for the nights cooking from scratch is not going to happen.

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