எங்கள் கதை

Every Kongu village once had a weekly sandhai, a market where farmers brought their oil, jaggery, millets and grains straight to the families who cooked with them. We started to bring that market online, with the same honest food and the same direct connection to the people who make it.

Nothing here is refined, bleached or blended. Oil is pressed slowly in a wooden chekku, jaggery is boiled in open pans, and grain is dried in the sun. It takes longer. We think you can taste the difference.

Marachekku gingelly oil

Where it comes from

Six places, one pantry.

  • 01

    Erode

    GI-tagged turmeric, the turmeric city

  • 02

    Kavindapadi

    Nattu sakkarai from the sugarcane belt

  • 03

    Kolli Hills

    Hill honey, pepper and jackfruit

  • 04

    Kangeyam

    Nattu maadu ghee from native cattle

  • 05

    Pollachi

    Coconut for marachekku coconut oil

  • 06

    Tiruppur & Karur

    Millets, groundnut and sesame

Seed to bottle

Slow on purpose, four steps.

01

வெயிலில் உலர்த்தல்

Sun-dried seed

Groundnut, sesame and copra dry for days in the Kongu sun, turned by hand every morning.

Sun-dried seed
02

மரச்செக்கு

The wooden chekku

A vaagai-wood pestle turns slowly in a stone mortar, so the oil never heats past body warmth.

The wooden chekku
03

இயற்கையாக தெளிதல்

Settled, not refined

The oil rests for days and clears on its own. No bleach, no chemicals, no filtering powders.

Settled, not refined
04

புதிதாக நிரப்புதல்

Packed the week you order

Small batches, filled and sealed by the families who pressed them, then sent straight to you.

Packed the week you order

“Some things are still made the slow way. Thank you for keeping them alive.”

The family

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