Where ancient recipes whisper through generations and the aroma of tradition fills the air, Amma's Special was born in 2013. What began as one woman's dream has blossomed into a movement of love, flavor, and belonging.
Amma's Special—a bridge between heritage and today, between distance and home, between craving and comfort.
Our founder, Shruti Basaiwala, grew up where food was more than a meal—it was comfort, care, and connection.
Surrounded by home-cooked flavours, she learned how warmth could be served on a plate. As life moved faster and farther from home, she noticed how many missed that familiar taste. She envisioned a way to bring home-style food without the time and effort of daily cooking. Amma’s Special was created to offer quick solutions for effortless cooking rooted in tradition.
Every product carries the ease of modern life and the soul of homemade food. Because no matter where you are, home should always be within reach.
The taste of authentic, home-cooked food. The flavor of belonging. The warmth of knowing someone made this just for you.
Some foods feed the body. Ours nourish the soul.
Sourced locally, chosen carefully, treated respectfully
Mothers, Sisters and grandmothers whose hands know the language of good food
Because that's exactly who we're cooking for
Preserving recipes that deserve to live forever
Homestyle batters make cooking effortless
Every product carries generations of wisdom, laughter, and love.
In a world of preservatives, we make pure, wholesome and homestyle products with zero additives.
From our family's hands to yours, with nothing but goodness in between.
Because everyone deserves to feel at home, no matter where they are.
The Values Stirred Into Everything We Create
We believe food is the language of love. Every product we create speaks this language fluently—carrying warmth, care, and the comfort of knowing someone genuinely cares about what reaches your plate.
In a world of artificial flavors and quick fixes, we stand firm: real ingredients, real recipes, real taste. We source locally, respect tradition, and never compromise on what makes homemade food truly special—its soul.
You're not our customer. You're family. We're not just delivering products; we're rekindling memories, bridging distances, and bringing the warmth of home to wherever life has taken you.
Nothing—absolutely nothing—leaves our hands without meeting the standards we'd demand for our own loved ones. Every jar is a promise. Every bite, a commitment kept.
We exist to preserve what modern life often forgets: the irreplaceable value of homemade goodness, the recipes that tell our stories, and the taste that turns a house into a home.
Our mission is beautifully simple: to ensure that no matter where you are, the taste of home is never out of reach. We're here to preserve grandmother's recipes before they fade. To support home chefs whose skill deserves recognition. To give you back those Sunday afternoon flavors, those festival memories, those "just like Amma used to make" moments.
We craft more than food. We create:
Shruti grew up surrounded by home-cooked South Indian food and saw how many people, once they moved away from home, missed that familiar taste. She started Amma’s Special to recreate that comfort without requiring hours of daily cooking.
It’s the internal standard behind every product — before anything leaves the kitchen, the team asks whether it meets the same care, quality, and love a mother would put into cooking for her own family, not just a checklist of food-safety requirements.
By working directly with home chefs whose cooking skills have been passed down through generations, and by following those original recipes closely rather than adapting them into mass-production formulas designed mainly for shelf life and speed.
A team of mothers, sisters, and daughters — home chefs with generations of cooking experience — prepares Amma’s Special products in a facility that is 90% staffed by women.
Amma’s Special is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, and has grown from one founder’s home-kitchen idea into a brand delivering ready-to-cook batters and chutneys to customers across India.
It’s solving for people who’ve moved away from home and lost easy access to authentic, home-cooked South Indian food — offering a ready-to-cook alternative that doesn’t sacrifice the taste, care, or tradition of a homemade meal.
Yes. Amma’s Special’s approach centers on supporting skilled home chefs and preserving grandmother-style recipes, rather than relying purely on industrial-scale food production methods.
