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Ragi Is Right For Bakeries

Ragi or finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands.

Naturally Sweet

For quite some years, sugar has been blamed for the many health related problems that affect our lives and lifestyles.

Bakery In Age Of Social Media

If you want to make it big in India’s bakery industry, having a social media marketing strategy is a must

SIGEP 2017 To Reveal Latest Gelato, Pastry and Bakery Trends

The upcoming edition of the five-day expo in Italy that focuses on five major products — gelato, pastry, chocolate, coffee and bread — aims at increasing the international profile of every single activity.

Deliciously Healthy Seeds

Pomegranate tree is a deciduous shrub, which bears a fruit of the same name.

An Event Of Immense Significance

AAHAR – The International Food & Hospitality Fair, took place at its regular venue of Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. AAHAR 2017 happened to be the 32nd edition of AAHAR, which is regarded as the largest fair in the food & beverage and the hospitality sectors in India. The mega show for the food & beverage and hospitality industry took place during 7 th-11 th March 2017, during 10.00 am to 6.00 pm.

Homemade Chocolates: Points To Ponder

Chocolates can be construed as an ideal means of celebrating happiness. They can help us express our love and gratitude towards our loved ones. Many sweet-toothed Indians of all ages find these delights irresistible. While it could be true that you don’t mind the price the specialty artisan chocolates made in many home based bakeries command but have you ever stopped to think if these chocolates are safe to consume?

Summer Desserts to Beat the Heat

Summer is the season when your entire concept of desserts takes a new twist. Favourites like Chocolate and Strawberry Cakes, or Mint Oreo Cake or even Indian desserts like Gulab Jamun and Gajar Ka Halwa are turned a blind eye to, and the preferred ones become ice creams or fluids – both sweet and spicy. Ice creams are generally one of the favourite desserts and makers of this delicacy come up with new flavours during summer. Though ice creams can bring us a cool and refreshing feeling in the hot summer, they are not suitable for several people. Some chefs claim that ice creams are not the ideal escape for summer heat as they could affect yours health. Ashok Malkani takes a look at the prevailing culinary scenario during summer to gauge which desserts are proving popular with people during these blistering days.

Gelling With Gelatin

Gelatin – a fairly old ingredient for setting many items and cooking is also spelt as gelatine and originates from the French term, gélatine. It is a transluscent brittle substance, colourless or light yellow. In itself it has no taste or odour and it is created by prolonged boiling of connective tissue of animals such as skin, cartilege, and bones. Apart from its use in food, it is also of use in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and photography industry. Technically also known as E number E441, it is an irreversibly hudrolyzed form of collagen.

Nuts In Baking

Cakes are soft and spongy and often have the various creams and chocolates – well, ordinary cakes that is. When you chop and use candied and/or dried fruits, nuts and spices you come up with extremely different genre of cake.

Trendy Cafe

It is a commonly known fact that burgers, pizzas and sandwiches are popular across several pockets of urban India. The significant increase in disposable incomes in select but sizeable pockets of urban Indian society during the last two decades, the growing number of nuclear families and the spread of busy life which often lead to very little time to cook two full meals a day, and the evolution in urban India’s food & beverage preferences due to the impact of globalisation are only some of the socio-economic factors fostering this trend.

Cafe Business With Potential

Cafes are not the places where you just visit for a cup of coffee and exit. Many renowned cafés have a culture, a legacy associated with them. These days, in post-modern urban India, café is a place where the youngsters gather to socialise or to do leisurely work, or to do their college or business assignments on their computers. With many of the cafes offering free Wi-Fi, you will find many of the guests occupying lonely nooks to concentrate on their assignments, with a cup of warm, aromatic coffee. Coffee, which was mainly a drink confined to south India, has become, with its various different avatars, a favourite of the youths in the Indian metros as well as in tier-I and tier-II cities. International brands like Café Coffee Day, Starbucks, Costa Coffee, and Barista to name a few, have contributed significantly to this coffee café culture. Ashok Malkani discusses about this happening scenario. The growth of café culture and the future of cafes in the context of India’s food service industry are analysed.

The Essential Fruit

Wood apple, which is known as bael in Hindi, is a fruit enriched with health benefits.

Facilitating Hygiene In Food Production Chain

It is extremely important that eateries get their food and beverage products only from reputed and registered suppliers and institute a system of regular inspection to facilitate that the supplied products are of consistently high quality

The Rise And Rise Of QSRs

Due to some favourable socio-economic factors, India’s QSR market is growing impressively. According to an ASSOCHAM’s report dating back to 2015, the quick service restaurant sector in India was growing at a CAGR of 25 percent, and was likely to touch Rs.25,000 crore mark by 2020 from Rs.8500 crore in 2015. Ashok Malkani explores the happening QSR business scenario in India, where several international brands like McDonald’s, KFC, Subway, Domino’s Pizza and others have established themselves and by tailoring their offerings to Indian tastes, they have scripted or are scripting success stories in India’s QSR business.

Blue, Purple, and Healthy

Blueberries are flowering plants, whose height range from 10 centimeters to 4 metres. They can be aptly described as prostate shrubs. These plants or shrubs produce berries, which teem with health benefits. These berries are also known as blueberries.

The Recipe For Successful

Bakery business in India has huge growth potential. Starting a bakery business also requires a modest capital. That is probably one of the reasons behind the galore of home bakers across the Indian bakery industry.But to succeed in bakery business, especially with limited funds, an entrepreneur not only requires personal involvement, hard work and creativity, but proper training is also needed. Ashok Malkani tries to find the ingredients that make for a good baker.

Breaking Fast In Post-Modern India

The role of breakfast in our daily routine cannot be overstated.

Customising Bakery

Indian bakery industry is considered to be one of the largest sections of the Indian processed food industry. Its main components are biscuits, bread, cakes and cookies. But biting into the same shaped and identical tasting products becomes tedious particularly in this age when the craving is for something new and innovative. The pastry chefs have endeavoured to come up with some contemporary and pioneering ideas in terms of shape, size and ingredients used for bakery products. Thus one now can get bread made from different ingredients and cakes in different shapes, sizes and icings and cookies that are not only made from various ingredients but also stuffed with various kinds of fillings. Ashok Malkani views the innovations that have been incorporated in the baked goods, by various chefs, to keep the interests of the consumers alive.

IHE19 Curtain Raiser

After the tremendous success of IHE18, India Expo Centre & Mart (IEML) hosted another magnificent curtain raiser to the second edition of India International Hospitality Expo (IHE19) at Hotel Le Meridien, Delhi.

Delicious Dessert Trends

Virginia Woolf, an English writer, who is considered among the most important modernist twentieth-century authors, had said, ‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’ To that one may add, delectable dessert/s is/are the ultimate, ethereal culmination of dining well. Yet, often one is made to feel guilty about indulging one’s sweet tooth by health freaks. For connoisseurs of desserts, it doesn’t matter what the occasion or the time of the year is;consumption of dessert delicacy is a must. And to keep the health-conscious satisfied, Chefs have now introduced desserts that can be labeled as healthy desserts – no sugar, gluten-free, with fresh fruits. Ashok Malkani examines the dessert trends for 2018 and discovers that there are now even savoury desserts available!

Evolution In Breakfast Tables

The changing lifestyle of the Indian consumers has changed the entire scenario at the breakfast tables in many urban Indian homes. These days, with profusion of nuclear families with both husband and wife rushing off to their work there is little time for setting an elaborate breakfast table. The days when the Indian breakfast varied from region to region – with a variety of recipes which differed from kutch in the west to Kolkata in the east; Srinagar in the north to Suchindram in the south seems to be over, especially in the context of busy post-modern urban India. These days, healthy RTE and RTC options are adorning many a breakfast tables in urban India. This has opened up a wide scope for the cereal breakfast food manufacturers to expand their horizons and provided new entrepreneurs an opportunity to enter the fast expanding Indian cereal breakfast market. Ashok Malkani examines the scope for the entrepreneurs in India’s breakfast cereals market and looks at all the pros and cons of entering this promising market.

Introducing The Goodness Of Spanish Olives In India

Olives from Spain considers India as one of the key markets for Spanish olive producers. In fact, since the launch of its first campaign in 2014, Olives from Spain has been giving impulse to different activities to catch a larger base of potential consumers, highlighting the nutritional, sensorial and emotional aspects of consuming the Spanish olives. It thinks demand for Spanish olives has substantial capacity to grow in India.

The Trend Of Customised Cakes

Mention of cakes would make most dessert lovers drool. But talk of customised cakes and you can not only whet up the appetite of an individual but also her/his fantasy. Ashok Malkani tries to find out when the customised cake craze took hold of the gentry, the labour of love that goes into making these fantasies and the challenges involved in making these works of art.

Prevailing Industry Trends

Bakery products have received immense popularity in the present day urban India. From cakes to croissants, baked products have become a favourite of people from all age groups, in urban India.

The Essentials In Baking Process

We often use the term baking, but what exactly does baking mean? The skilled art of turning the ingredients of water, flour, yeast, and salt into edible products is known as baking. In bakery production, great importance is placed on recipes, which entails accurate weighing and correct dough temperature.

The Milky Way To Success

India is not only the largest milk producing country in the world but also happens to be the largest producer and consumer of dairy. According to a report from Research and Markets, titled ‘A Study of India’s Dairy Sector 2017,’ the dairy industry in India was worth Rs.5000 billion in 2016. However, the organised sector accounts for only 20 percent of dairy sales in the country.

For Success In Your Bakery Start-ups

Running a bakery unit is a creative and challenging business, whether be it a stand-alone bakery, a retail bakery chain, or industrial bakery operations for that matter. However, in this feature we are concentrating on the points to be considered for the running of a start-up and stand-alone bakery business, especially in the context of India’s bakery and confectionery industry.

India Has One Of The Fastest Growing Chocolate Markets

While the global chocolate confectionery market posts slow growth, new research from global market intelligence agency Mintel reveals that India is defying the odds. Indeed, India now has one of the world’s fastest growing chocolate confectionery markets.

Satiating The Sweet Cravings

Cravity is a newly opened trendy café and French patisserie, located in the posh area of Hauz Khas, New Delhi. The outlet was launched on 9th December 2016 and presently the 22 cover sleek café cum patisserie on the ground floor, according to its proprietor Rachit Goil, is attracting brisk footfalls.