Food Truck Inc

24/01/2016

Google can throw up any recipe which you desire, but these kind angels take it one step further. They have been exactly in your shoes and know what you’re going through. Their blogs feature classic as well as exotic recipes that have been painstakingly chronicled and deconstructed to make it easy for newbie cooks who are still figuring how to work the burner. These steps are supplemented with pictures and peppered with hilarious anecdotes, food history, cultural bites and tips and tricks to make your culinary journey smooth and inspired. The following is a list of food blogs and their authors which can not only transform you into cook book wonders but really open your eyes to the art that is cooking.

Food blogs to the rescue: If you, like me, tend to be a victim of your own culinary machinations then turn to these undomestic goddesses for help.

24/01/2016

The joys of devouring golgappa from a street vendor can never match that of eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant, because nothing screams more homely, comfy and satisfying like street food. It does not differentiate between light and heavy pockets, between people’s religion and skin colour. It is simple and uncomplicated. Talking Street was born to help locate the best of local/street food in a city, for both local foodies and tourists alike.

According to Maheima Kapur, street food or local food is an integral part of getting under the skin of a city and understanding its ethos

11/01/2016

Built2Cook is a based ingredient delivery startup, which started with a vision of “making great food convenient”. With its cook box, customers receive fresh ingredients in exact quantities, and a step wise process to make the most delicious food hassle-free.

Within a span of six months, Built2cook has grown to 40 employees, 10,000 customers and is currently operating in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

11/01/2016

consumers are mindful of a pizza and a burger chain; however, when it comes to one of India’s favourite food like biryani in a QSR format there is no national brand that exists. “This is the opportunity that team Charcoal Biryani wants to go after.

It was to take the QSR model dominion away from pizza chains that Anurag Mehrotra and Krishnakant Thakur from LionVentures started Charcoal Biryani.

04/01/2016

Rocket Chef was started in October 2015. It offers stone-oven thin crust pizzas and gourmet sandwiches which are prepared inside a van by the startup’s chefs. Customers can place orders through geo-location-based app or via call and get food delivered to their doorstep. The app enables them to look up the food van closest to their vicinity.

Gurgaon-based Rocket Chef, is a 'food truck on call,' which promises to deliver food at customers' doorstep through mobile food bikes, vans and food pods.

24/12/2015

Based in , FoodbyMood Nagpur is a startup with a location-aware application and website that doesn’t offer the usual restaurant-based reviews, but gives suggestions of must-try dishes with dish reviews. So, instead of ‘restaurants near you’, the app and website informs users of ‘dishes near you’. This solves the problem of selection of the right dishes in any given restaurant or hotel.

With the foodtech industry already being saturated with novel concepts, it is easy to assume there isn't room for more innovation. FoodbyMood,a food disco

16/12/2015

With the increasing number of players in the foodtech space, there has been a buzz about funds drying up and a need to focus more on business, revenue models, and sustainability.

Quinto uses AI to build automated chat-based food and restaurant recommendations. The team considers it 'Siri' for food.

13/12/2015

Being a country heavily dependent on agriculture, there is very little attention being put on innovations in agriculture. A step in this direction, IIM Ahmedabad’s technology business incubator – Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) – is launching a food and agri-business accelerator in partnership with a-IDEA – the business incubator at Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s (ICAR) National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM). IIM Ahmedabad

It was only last week when we looked at the definition of food-tech and asked if we’re all missing a crucial point? Being a country heavily dependent on ag

08/12/2015

Parsi Dhansak with Brown Rice

Ingredients:

½ kg mutton
11/2 cup tur dal preferably wet ½ an hour before cooking
2 small brinjals cut into 4 pieces each
Few mint leaves, coriander leaves and curry leaves
1 big tomato diced nicely
½ tsp haldi powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
11/2 tsp jeera powder
11/2 tsp dhansak masala powder
½ tsp garam masala
Salt to taste
1 or 2 green chillies slit into 2
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp oil or ghee

Method:
Wash the dal and mutton . take oil or ghee in the cooker put curry leaves , mint leaves and Ginger garlic paste and slit green chillies last add nicely diced tomatoes and fry over sim for Few moments then add mutton and cook till the mutton is nicely coverd in the masalas and Then add all the dry masalas let the mutton roast for sometime now add the dal and 1 glass Full of water and put the cooker lid on. Cook for ½ an hour. Open and add finely chopped Coriander leaves.

Brown rice:

Ingredients:

2 cups rice
2 tbsp jaggery
2 onions nicely chopped into thin thin slices
2 pieces of cardamoms
2pcs cinnamon
1 bay leaf
3 or 4 whole peppers
2 pepper corns
1 piece star aniseed
¼ tsp jeera and salt to taste.
Ghee for frying

Method:
wash the rice and keep it aside. Fry onions in ghee till brown along with all the dry Masalas then put the jaggery and fry over low gas and put the washed rice add salt to taste and last add water. Cook till done.

Serves 4

You can also use the Same method of dhansak dal with chicken or vegetables for vegetarians.

29/10/2015

The Breakfast Box gives a start by delivering healthy scrumptious at people’s doorsteps in . spaces and could benefit a lot from such healthy eating options.

Started by Jai Ojha, Avanish Jaiswal, Mrugnayan Kamthekar, Maharshi Upadhyaya, and Ayush Jaiswal, The Breakfast Box is a doorstep delivery service of the most important yet oft-skipped meal of the day: breakfast. The idea came after a long brainstorming session. The founders knew they wanted to solv…

19/10/2015

Gongura Mutton

Ingredients
250 gm lamb meat
Turmeric powder to taste
Salt to taste
Ginger-garlic paste

For the curry:
2 Tbsp refined oil
6 cloves
3 cardamoms
1 stick of cinnamon
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
3 Tbsp chopped onions
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
100 gm gongura leaves
1 Tbsp red chilli powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
10 curry leaves
6 slit green chillies
Chopped coriander leaves
50 ml water
1 1/2 tsp salt
Fried red chilli, curry leaves
Clarified butter

Method
Boil the meat with turmeric powder, salt and ginger garlic paste, keep aside.
Now heat oil in pan.
Add cloves, cardamoms, cumin seeds and chopped onions.
Saute onions till they turn translucent.
Then add ginger garlic paste, gongura leaves, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, curry leaves, slit green chillies, chopped coriander leaves, boiled meat, water and salt.
Mix well and cook for 5 minutes.
Garnish it with fried red chillies, curry leaves and clarified butter.

Serve hot with rice.

08/10/2015

Foodtech startups in India have taken center-stage the last couple of months, even overtaking the spotlight from the Indian e-commerce space. From expansio