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Award winning gifts, spice tins, blends & spiced drinks from a mother and son team.

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SPICE BLENDS

Award-winning, small batch spice blends for adding bags of flavour in just a teaspoon or two, packaged in gorgeous, collectable tins.

SPICE TINS

The ideal gift for the keen cooks in your life, each one filled with a selection of fresh spices and a mini cookery book.

PRIDE TIN

A Limited Edition Pride Tin dressed in a vibrant sari: as proud as a parade for Pride Month this June.

CHOCOLATE & DRINKS

Cosy hot chocolates, mulling spices and our best-selling spiced chocolate bars, all featuring our award-winning spice blends.

LITTLE TREATS

Little treats to say Thinking of You, or to indulge your sweet or savoury cravings

COOKERY BOOKS

Spice-forward cookery books, perfect for learning a new cuisine or style of cookery.
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FROM OUR KITCHEN TO YOURS

Explore our selection of spiced-up recipes, including curries, BBQ favourites, vegan, veggie, desserts and drinks. 

Meera Sodha's Keralan Vegetable Istoo

Meera Sodha's Keralan Vegetable Istoo

Chimichurri-loaded sweet potato fries | @rebelrecipes

Chimichurri-loaded sweet potato fries | @rebelrecipes

Cajun Schnitzel

Cajun Schnitzel

Chilli Paneer Biryani

Chilli Paneer Biryani

Banging Fish Tacos

Banging Fish Tacos

Sanjay & Shashi – Our Story

Hi, I’m Sanjay, and I founded Spice Kitchen in 2012 as a retirement hobby for my mum Shashi. We were talking over the dinner table on Christmas Day, and Mum was saying she wanted something to keep her occupied. Because she is an amazing home cook, I suggested she start selling her spice blends and tins (aka Masala Dabbas).
That seed of (what I now refer to as a silly idea) took on a life of its own, and Spice Kitchen now gives mum and I the chance to share our love of spices and shared mealtimes. I am beyond grateful I get to do this with mum. If you want to know more about us, you can read our story here.

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What is a Masala Dabba Spice Box?

Sanjay shares his relationship with and knowledge of the humble yet iconic Spice Tin that has been present throughout his entire life.

The Masala Dabba is right at the heart of Indian cookery and culture. Its origins can be traced right back to ancient India, so its history is as vibrant as the spices it contains. 

Mum told me that prior to the Dabba, families used all sorts of containers to store and organise their spices, and the stainless-steel tin evolved over time into a compact and practical solution for everyday cookery as it allows home cooks to have to hand their favourite, go-to spices while they are cooking.

Although typically made of stainless-steel (but sometimes wood), the Dabba has seven small, round compartments within the larger circular container, each holding a different spice. These compartments are usually arranged in a circle around a central container (traditionally for salt), and the entire assembly is topped with a lid.

The tin was often passed from generation to generation, and with it came family recipes, memories and a good few bumps, dents and scratches for good measure. From grandmother's best-kept-secret spice blend that everyone wanted to make, to auntie's advice on the perfect ratio of cumin to coriander for a dal, the Dabba contained all that lovely know-how that comes from regularly cooking and eating together as a family.

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One Tin: One Meal

Help us to end classroom hungerThrough our charity partnership with The Akshaya Patra Foundation, every time you buy a spice tin, we donate a meal to a school child who needs it in the UK and India.

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