Grocers, sweet shops, eateries and online shoppers buy ready masalas. Khari Baoli, Asia's largest wholesale spice market, is in Central Delhi, so a small unit can buy whole spices at the source and sell its own ground, packed blends.
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This is a small unit that buys whole spices, cleans and dry-roasts them, grinds them into blends such as garam masala, chaat masala, chole masala and biryani masala, and packs them in sealed pouches under your own label.
Central Delhi's One District One Product is dry fruits and spices, and Khari Baoli, Asia's largest wholesale spice market, is in the district. Much of the spice there is sold whole and loose, in bulk, at thin trading margins. Grinding, blending and packing lets you keep more of the final price, and buying at the source lets you pick good lots.
You need an FSSAI food licence, a clean room with a roaster, grinder, sifter and pouch sealer, and a site where a small food unit is allowed. The old city's crowded lanes are hard on a grinding unit, so check the municipal rules before you rent. The hard part is trust: buyers worry about mixed or stale powders, so get batches tested at a food lab, print batch numbers and dates, and keep the taste the same. Big masala brands are in every shop, so compete on freshness and on the blends local cooks and halwais (sweet-makers) ask for.
Start with sweet shops, dhabas and grocers across Delhi, then sell gift packs to visitors in Old Delhi and online.
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