About Pure Desi, since 2009
The mithai you remember
Rolled, cut and slow-cooked the way it was at home, so the box you open tastes like the one you grew up with. Family-owned, with New Delhi roots and four stores in Australia.
A pastry chef and a home cook
The hotel kitchen: a father trained in the pastry kitchens of the world's great hotels. It is why a kaju katli leaves our counter with a clean diamond edge, and every piece in the box matches the one beside it.
The home kitchen: a mother whose cooking never needed a recipe. It is why a ladoo gives a little when you bite it, and a milk cake tastes of milk, not just sugar.
So the box you hand over looks like a hotel made it, and tastes like home did. Imitation is flattering. The original has been here since 2009.
How your box is made
- Rolled by hand: each motichoor ladoo is pressed between two palms, so it holds its shape on the plate and gives way when you bite.
- Cut by eye: barfi is cut from the slab and lifted into place piece by piece, so the edges stay clean in the box.
- Reduced low and slow: milk cooks down slowly in the kadai, the start of a proper milk cake and its quiet caramel note.
- Pressed for the oven: kulcha is shaped by hand before it meets the oven, so it bakes soft in the middle and blistered on top.
100% vegetarian, every sweet and every savoury. No preservatives. Handcrafted since 2009.
Start here
- Diwali at home: twenty boxes in three sizes, packed for the date you choose.
- A gift to take with you: ready-made boxes, sealed and ready to hand over.
- Your own mix: choose the sweets and we pack the box.
- Clients and teams: set a quantity and order online.
Taste it over the counter
Four stores, one recipe book: Arndell Park (Sydney, flagship), Kellyville (Sydney), Campbellfield (Melbourne) and Woodridge (Brisbane). Hot food at every store: samosa, chaat, pav bhaji and more. At Arndell Park, weekends only.
Bring India Home®. The give of a hand-rolled ladoo. The smell of kulcha from the oven.
