Indian Ready Meals

Indian freezer meals cooked by hand in the Surrey Hills

Mandira's Kitchen started as supper clubs in a converted cowshed near Albury and grew into a kitchen sending proper Indian home cooking across the UK. Every dish on this page is made by us, in batches small enough to taste as we go, using whole spices we grind ourselves, then frozen the same day it is cooked. Our food has won fifteen Great Taste Awards and is endorsed by Nigella Lawson, but the thing that matters is that it tastes like someone cooked it for you rather than for a production line.

If your grandmother wouldn't recognise the ingredients, neither do we. No artificial preservatives, no shortcuts, and nothing on this list we wouldn't put on our own table.

What you can order

Curries and mains

Regional dishes rather than a single house curry: a Delhi butter chicken, a Calcutta cashew and coriander chicken, a Goan xacuti, railway lamb on the bone, a Keralan fish moilee, and vegetarian mains including palak paneer, chana masala, navratan korma and panch mishali. Each serves two.

Dals

The part of the range we are best known for. Dal Makhani simmered for hours with butter and cream, a garlic-heavy Lehsuni, a spinach Palak Dal, and a watercress dal made with leaves from Kingfisher Farm a few miles down the road. Most are vegan. There is also a Homestyle Tarka Daal Kit if you would rather finish it yourself, which makes six portions.

Biryani, rice and breads

Chicken and vegetable biriyani cooked the dum way in a sealed pot, plus lemon rice, vegetable pulao and flame-baked tandoori naan straight off the wall of a clay tandoor.

Starters and snacks

Onion bhajis, three kinds of samosa, hara bhara kebabs, kaju corn rolls, pea patties, chanachur, spiced crackers and luxury spiced nuts. Most are vegan and gluten free, and they go in the oven or air fryer rather than the microwave.

How the filters work

Heat runs from one chilli to two across this range. Mild means warmth and aroma with no chilli burn, which is where most children are comfortable, and Medium builds gently rather than hitting hard. The Serves filter separates the dishes for two from the Tarka Daal Kit, which makes six, and from the starters and snacks sized to share. Diet filters cover gluten free, dairy free, vegan and vegetarian, and every card lists its allergens as well, so nothing needs a second click to find.

Cooking and delivery

Cook from frozen, with no defrosting. Curries, dals and rice take about ten minutes on the hob with a splash of water, four to five minutes in the microwave, or thirty in the oven or air fryer. Fork the biryani through before serving so the grains separate. Starters go in the oven or air fryer for eight to twelve minutes and should not go near a microwave, or you lose the crunch that makes them worth eating. Delivery is £9.99 and free over £75, across mainland UK, packed to stay frozen in transit.