Get Chuk de Rai for the safest and cleanest spices crackling with fresh earthy flavours.

Origin

Mustard is a yellow-flowered plant with a small round seed related to the cabbage and broccoli family. The mention of this magical plant and spice is in the ancient Vedic scriptures dating back about 5,000 years ago. Most of the world’s mustard is grown throughout North-West India, the North American prairies, Pakistan and Nepal.

The most common type of mustard seeds that are cultivated is yellow, black, and brown mustard. The Brown Mustard or Rai finds its Description in the Himalayas and is smaller in size than Black and Yellow ones.

Flavour Profile

The Brown Mustard seeds are similar to Black Mustard in taste and bite, with lesser heat than it. But it's stronger than the Yellow Mustard.

Cooking Uses

Rai is a commonly used tempering ingredient added along with curry leaves and chiiles over West and South Indian dishes like Dhokla, Idli, Curd Rice, Coconut Chutney, etc. It is also used as an alternative to the Black Mustard due to similar flavour profiles.

Chukde Advantages

• Chukde Rai is cleaned with state-of-the-art machinery to give you the best quality.
• Chukde is Rai passed through Rare Earth Magnets that eliminate any metal dust in the product. We are the first and the only company that uses this process.
• All our Spices pass through ETO Sterilization before being packaged and sold.