Buy dry fruits online in Indore

Ordering dry fruits online in Indore

Indore eats late and eats well, and a lot of it is sweet. The city’s famous shikanji is not lemonade but a thick, spiced milk drink loaded with dry fruit, and the night food lanes are full of rabdi, malpua and sweets garnished with pista and almond. Fasting days bring sabudana khichdi and other farali food, often with a handful of cashew or raisins. When the Malwa winter arrives, kitchens make gond and dry fruit laddoos, and during Navratri and Diwali boxes of nuts go round every family.

We can usually reach Indore in 2–4 days by courier. Each order is weighed to the gram at our counter in Rajasthan and sealed airtight before dispatch. Orders start at ₹1,000 and ship free. Payment is online only.

What Indore orders for shikanji, fasts and winter

• Pista for shikanji. Pista Pishori is the green, flavourful one meant for milk drinks.
• Almonds for the same glass. Badam Katran floats on top and softens in the milk.
• Charoli for the milk masala. Charoli adds a soft, nutty bite to a homemade shikanji or rabdi.
• Makhana for fasting days. Makhana, roasted with a little ghee and rock salt, is a common farali snack.
• Gond for winter laddoos. The whole grade, fried until it puffs, with almonds and dry coconut.

Storing dry fruits on the Malwa plateau

Indore sits high, and its evenings are cooler than much of central India, but the summer days are still hot and dry. That dry heat is hard on charoli and pista, both of which turn rancid if left on a warm shelf. Keep them in small airtight jars in the fridge from March onwards.

The monsoon here is milder than on the coast, but makhana will still go limp if the pack is left open for a day. Roast only what you will eat, and seal the rest. Winter laddoos keep for weeks in a tin, which is why most families make them all at once.

Everything for a milk masala or shikanji is on the pistachio shelf, and our guide to pista kernels, katran and pishori explains why the pishori is the one for milk.