Traditionally in the kitchen
Herbs & Wellness
Leaves, roots, bark, and fruit a home already knows how to keep.
Someone dried this in the sun and left the plant’s own name on it. That is the care. The leaf is still the leaf when it reaches a kitchen.
What follows has been traditionally used in Indian kitchens and home preparations. We walk with the grower. We do not borrow the language of a clinic. If a household has kept a root close for years, it does not need a new claim from us.
An illustrative photograph. Not a True North field or pack.
What the pot already asks for
The daily pot has a short list and a long memory. These are the plants it reaches for without a speech.
Turmeric / Haldi
The golden root a kitchen reaches for, dried and still called by its own name.
Enquire about Turmeric / HaldiDry ginger / Saunth
Ginger dried for the shelf, sharp and plainly itself.
Enquire about Dry ginger / SaunthFenugreek / Methi dana
The small bitter seed a tadka already knows.
Enquire about Fenugreek / Methi danaLong pepper / Pippali
A slender pepper, kept whole, for kitchens that already ask for it.
Enquire about Long pepper / PippaliTulsi
Holy basil, dried, the leaf a courtyard already knows.
Enquire about Tulsi
Leaf, fruit, and the bitter green
Some of these are sharp. Some are quiet and green. Together they are still plants, grown in a season and carried home.
Moringa / Sahjan
Sahjan leaves, dried, green as the tree they left.
Enquire about Moringa / SahjanAmla
The Indian gooseberry, dried, tart, and familiar.
Enquire about AmlaNeem
Neem leaf, bitter and unmistakable, kept as the leaf.
Enquire about NeemTriphala
Three fruits, kept together the way kitchens have kept them.
Enquire about TriphalaGiloy / Guduchi
The stem, dried, from a vine many villages already know.
Enquire about Giloy / Guduchi
Roots kept in the cupboard
A root can wait. We would rather say who lifted it than say anything about a body. The name stays the plant’s name.
Ashwagandha
The root, dried, as home kitchens have kept it.
Enquire about AshwagandhaBrahmi
A small creeping leaf, dried, kept for the kitchen shelf.
Enquire about BrahmiShatavari
The root of a climbing plant, dried and plainly labeled.
Enquire about ShatavariMulethi / Yashtimadhu
Liquorice root, sweet, woody, and named in both tongues.
Enquire about Mulethi / YashtimadhuArjuna bark
Bark from the arjuna tree, dried for the shelf.
Enquire about Arjuna bark
Ask about a plant when you want it in the kitchen. We will answer as people who buy from growers, and the note does not take payment.