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Maya Kaimal Foods 🍛Kitchen-Crafted Indian Food founded & run by award-winning cookbook author Maya Kaimal. She and Guy launched Maya Kaimal Fine Indian Foods in 2003.

Maya Kaimal is an award-winning cookbook author and a leading authority on Indian cooking. Her first book Curried Favors: Family Recipes from South India won the Julia Child Award for best first book. Her second book, Savoring the Spice Coast of India: Fresh Flavors from Kerala, focused on the food of the region of South India where her father was raised. She has been a guest on the Today Show, th

e Food Network, Martha Stewart, and the Splendid Table, and has written feature articles for Food & Wine and Saveur. Traveling frequently to Kerala from the age of nine, Maya’s fascination with Indian food began in her Aunty Kamala’s (pictured) kitchen. It was there she first experienced the heady aromas of fresh curry leaves crackling in hot oil with mustard seeds and dried chilies. At home, in Boston, Maya learned how to cook her own Indian food from her physicist father Chandran Kaimal—an excellent cook with a knack for writing foolproof recipes. Her American mother Lorraine, equally talented in the kitchen, also helped nurture her love of food. At Pomona College in California, Maya found herself cooking for friends, and then for co-workers in New York City where she worked as a magazine photo editor. She realized that home-cooked Indian food made a lasting impression on people—especially those who had only tasted it in restaurants. This awareness led her to write her first two cookbooks, both collections of family recipes. In December 2001, Maya Kaimal and writer Guy Lawson were married in Manhattan with a sumptuous Indian feast. She soon left publishing and saw the chance to take her passion one step further, by cooking home-style Indian food and packaging it for other busy food lovers. The following year they had twins, left their Brooklyn life, and moved to Upstate New York where they currently reside.

03/09/2026

Our new noodles are now available Whole Foods Market! 🛒

✨🍜INDO CHINESE NOODLES HAVE LANDED🍜✨Meet our NEW Hakka Style and Sweet Chili Crisp Noodles: bold, savory, perfectly spri...
02/09/2026

✨🍜INDO CHINESE NOODLES HAVE LANDED🍜✨

Meet our NEW Hakka Style and Sweet Chili Crisp Noodles: bold, savory, perfectly springy, and ready in just 6 minutes.
Inspired by the vibrant flavors of Indo-Chinese cooking, each bag makes it easy to bring big flavor to the table on even your busiest days. Find them now at Whole Foods Market!

To celebrate, we’re giving away noodles all month long 🎉

Here’s how to enter:
🧡Follow Maya Kaimal
🧡Like this post
🧡Tag a friend who always says yes to noodles

We’ll select a new winner every Friday and contact them only from the official Maya Kaimal account. Good luck! 🍜

01/09/2026

Chicken Manchurian 🥢

This Indo-Chinese favorite combines tender “velveted” chicken, peppers and onions with our savory Soy Ginger Stir Fry Sauce. Use half a jar for a glossy, glazed finish, or the whole jar if you like plenty of sauce to spoon over rice.

Comment MANCHURIAN and we’ll send you the recipe!

Soy Ginger Lettuce Wraps 🥬✨Fresh, flavorful, and so easy to pull together for dinner. Our Soy Ginger Stir Fry Sauce make...
27/08/2026

Soy Ginger Lettuce Wraps 🥬✨

Fresh, flavorful, and so easy to pull together for dinner. Our Soy Ginger Stir Fry Sauce makes these lettuce wraps quick and delicious, serve them with sesame-scallion noodles, steamed rice, or enjoy them on their own for something light and satisfying.

Comment WRAPS and we’ll send you the recipe!

26/08/2026

🏵️HAPPY ONAM! 🏵️ One of the most beautiful traditions of this harvest festival is the Pookalam, an intricate flower carpet laid at the doorway to welcome King Mahabali home.

It’s built petal by petal on the ground, and part of its charm is how temporary it is. Breezes scatter the flowers as the day goes on, so a brand new design is made the next morning. This continues for ten days, growing bigger and more elaborate, until the grandest Pookalam of all appears on the final day, followed by gift giving and a Sadya feast on a banana leaf!

There’s a saying in Kerala that no one should go hungry on Onam, and you feel it the moment the Sadya arrives 🌼This harv...
25/08/2026

There’s a saying in Kerala that no one should go hungry on Onam, and you feel it the moment the Sadya arrives 🌼

This harvest festival celebrates the homecoming of King Mahabali, a ruler so loved that his return each year is met with flower carpets at the door and a table set for everyone. The feast that follows is Kerala’s way of showing care, one dish at a time 🌿

20/08/2026

There’s a wide array of potato products in the freezer aisle, but we found that the flattened patties sold as “crowns” were our favorites. They held their crispness better than French fries, and they remind us of Aloo Tikkis! But feel free to experiment with other versions.

Comment CRISPY and we’ll send you the full recipe for our Crispy Honey Chili Potatoes 🥔🔥

Dumplings in Hot Garlic Sauce with Sizzled Scallion Tarka 🥟🔥Our Hot Garlic Stir Fry Sauce is the perfect way to sauce up...
19/08/2026

Dumplings in Hot Garlic Sauce with Sizzled Scallion Tarka 🥟🔥

Our Hot Garlic Stir Fry Sauce is the perfect way to sauce up your favorite dumplings. And this crispy scallion oil takes it to the Next Level.

Comment DUMPLINGS and we’ll send you the recipe!

19/08/2026

It's an art form as far as we're concerned ❤️

For millennia, there were no chilies in Indian food 🌶️Heat came from black pepper and long pepper, both native to the Ma...
17/08/2026

For millennia, there were no chilies in Indian food 🌶️

Heat came from black pepper and long pepper, both native to the Malabar coast. Chilies didn’t arrive until the 16th century, and within a few generations they had been absorbed so completely that it’s hard to imagine the cuisine without them.

What’s your favorite chili?

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