Author Archives: surinder Hothi-Bellamy
Jun
Heeramandi: The Diamond bazaar, is a 2024 lavish period drama from renowned Indian director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. This Netflix series is the latest film production we have been watching and throroughly enjoyed, and so wanted to give an overview of this for anyone interested in exploring Indian film and TV. It is set during the […]
Feb
How a cooking school pivoted to virtual classes — with meal kits delivered to the letterbox — during the pandemic! A Google case study. When the first lockdown hit we knew we had to do something… and to do something fast! Our products division already had an extensive range of Indian meal kit boxes and […]
Apr
How to make yoghurt An overriding memory of my teenage years is the late-night ritual of making dahi, which is the Punjabi and Hindi (Indian languages), word for yoghurt, and pronounced ‘day’. It’s a very simple and straightforward process, and requires no special equipment at all, so here’s how to make yoghurt… All that was […]
Food & travel, Indian food, Pure Punjabi
Berlin – The fifth city on our European Roadshow culinary journey…
Mar
The venue Old Smithy’s Dizzle is on a calm suburban road in Berlin, with huge big stable doors. Once you enter those doors, you find yourself in a little oasis. The building dates back to the 1800’s and the original features have been beautifully preserved whilst having a clean, modern feel. The kitchen team Safia […]
Food & travel, Indian food, Pure Punjabi
Paris – The fourth city on our European Roadshow culinary journey…
Mar
The Venue The kitchen team The food set up for Paris was fairly unique in that the venue didn’t have fully functioning kitchen. Therefore, all the food prep and cooking was done off site, at Baldev Singh’s beautiful restaurant Jodhpur Palace. He was so acomodating and he and his team were a pleasure to work […]
Food & travel, Indian food, Pure Punjabi
Madrid – The third city on our European Roadshow culinary journey…
Mar
The venue – The Westin Palace Madrid The third European roadshow event, hosting the incredible Freshworks tour, was held in the stunning Westin Palace Madrid. Having completed a successful first week in London and Manchester, this was where Safia now headed. She flew into the beautiful city of Madrid to deliver our role in the […]
Mar
How to make ghee I was taught how to make ghee, as a young girl, by my mother. When it was time to make ghee, my mother would send me to the local shop to collect the case of New Zealand Anchor butter that she had ordered. I’m sure that the staff at the shop […]
Mar
Paratha is the delicious crispy shallow-fried version of a roti, and is a very popular Punjabi bread. The process starts out the same as making the roti, which is to make the atta (dough). However, butter is layered into the dough and rolled out, then shallow fried in ghee until light brown and crispy. […]
Food & travel, Indian food, Pure Punjabi
Manchester – The second city on our European Roadshow culinary journey…
Nov
The venue The seccond roadshow event was held in the amazing space that is fivefourstudios in Manchester. A 1970’s warehouse transformed into a state of the art studio and events venue, fivefourstudios is set over three floors, with its own bar, outdoor area and three pure white studios. The white studios were the perfect backdrop […]
Food & travel, Indian food, Pure Punjabi
London – The first city on our European Roadshow culinary journey…
Nov
In June 2019, we travelled to Little Venice, Paddington, London for a very unusual breakfast meeting with CEO, Noel Wax of GroundSwell Group, a marketing company from Los Angeles. This was the start of our journey to London – The first city on our European Roadshow corporate culinary journey. This was in response to this […]
Sep
London – London Zoo Manchester – Fivefourstudio Madrid – Westin Madrid Paris – Galerie Joseph Berlin – Old Smithy’s Munich – Palais Lenbach Hingene – Kasteel d’Ursel Amsterdam – Taets Park & Arts Stockholm – 7A Helsinki – Hueno Event Read our post on the London event HERE
Jan
In the August of 2016, we were thrilled and delighted that our small business, Pure Punjabi, was selected for SmallBiz100 2016. We’d wanted to apply the year before, but circumstances had delayed us in getting our information together, while trying to run and expand the cookery school, food events and spice product business. The application […]
Dec
On Thursday the 1st Of December 2016, Pure Punjabi Ltd were invited to No 10 Downing Street as part of their selection as one of the 100 United Kingdom small businesses, chosen as part of the national Small Business Saturday U.K. campaign. Safia Hothi-Bellamy represented Pure Punjabi and was honoured to have the once-in-a lifetime […]
Mar
Although veganism may be a step too far for some meat-eaters, there’s no doubt that adopting some of it’s philosophies would take your daily fruit and vegetable consumption closer to the quantity we all ought to be consuming! It’s an easy way to try and achieve your 5 a day. Indian food is so naturally […]
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