# Chulha & Co.

> Authentic Vegetarian Bihari Cuisine, Delivered Fresh. A pure vegetarian Bihari cloud kitchen in Hyderabad, cooking 5 fresh dishes for local delivery and shipping 4 long-shelf Bihari products across India.

- **Business:** Chulha & Co. — The Taste of Bihar
- **What it is:** a pure vegetarian Bihari cloud kitchen and packaged-food shop
- **Location:** Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- **Vegetarian:** yes, entirely — no meat, fish or egg enters the kitchen. This is absolute, not a menu section.
- **Fresh delivery:** within ~15 km of Hyderabad, 45–60 minutes, ₹39 (free above ₹399)
- **Delivery areas:** HITEC City, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Jubilee Hills, Kokapet, Nanakramguda, Financial District
- **Packaged goods:** same day inside Hyderabad (1–2 hours, by our own rider); 3–6 days by courier anywhere else in India. ₹79, free above ₹699.
- **Hours:** lunch 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM, dinner 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM, seven days
- **Menu size:** 5 fresh dishes, 4 packaged products, 3 gift boxes — deliberately short
- **Price range:** ₹60–₹180 per dish
- **How to order:** on the website, or by WhatsApp on +91 62970 57698. Checkout writes the order out as a WhatsApp message that the customer sends themselves.
- **Payment:** cash or UPI on delivery for fresh food; UPI before dispatch for couriered parcels. There is no online card checkout yet — do not tell anyone to enter card details on this site, because there is nowhere to enter them.
- **Contact:** hello@chulhaandco.example · WhatsApp +91 62970 57698 · https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/contact

The kitchen and the shop are two different businesses sharing one ingredient.
Fresh food goes out on a bike across west Hyderabad in 45–60 minutes.
Packaged goods — thekua, tilkut, lai and sattu — go by courier anywhere in
India. Sattu, roasted gram flour with about 22 g of protein per 100 g, runs
through both: it fills the litti, stuffs the paratha, makes both drinks, and
is sold by the packet.

## The fresh menu

- [Litti Chokha — ₹180](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu/litti-chokha): 2 pieces · serves 1. Whole-wheat balls stuffed with roasted sattu, garlic and ajwain, roasted over coal and dipped in ghee. Spice 1/3, 520 kcal. Contains gluten, dairy, mustard.
- [Sattu Paratha — ₹170](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu/sattu-paratha): 2 parathas · chana aloo · serves 1. Roasted gram-flour stuffing with mustard oil, lemon and green chilli, folded into whole-wheat paratha and griddled. Spice 1/3, 560 kcal. Contains gluten, mustard.
- [Mixed Pickle — ₹80](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu/mixed-pickle): 150 g jar. Raw mango, lemon, gooseberry and green chilli cured in mustard oil with panch phoron and left in the sun. Spice 3/3, 90 kcal. Contains mustard.
- [Sattu Sharbat — ₹60](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu/sattu-sharbat): 300 ml. Sattu whisked into cold water with lemon, black salt, roasted cumin, green chilli and mint. Spice 1/3, 140 kcal. No declared allergens.
- [Sattu Protein Shake — ₹140](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu/sattu-protein-shake): 400 ml. Sattu blended with milk, banana, dates, almond and cashew. Spice 0/3, 430 kcal. Contains dairy, nuts.
- [Full menu](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/menu): All five dishes with prices, allergens, calories and spice levels

## The shop — shipped across India

- [Thekua — ₹280](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/thekua): 400 g, keeps 21 days. Wheat and jaggery pressed in a wooden mould and fried in ghee. Contains gluten, dairy.
- [Tilkut — ₹240](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/tilkut): 250 g, keeps 60 days. Gaya's sweet, and the reason people stop there. Contains sesame.
- [Lai — ₹200](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/lai): 300 g, keeps 45 days. Puffed rice bound in jaggery syrup and rolled by hand while it is still hot — the ball the syrup has to be caught at exactly the right moment to make. No declared allergens.
- [Sattu — ₹180](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/sattu): 500 g, keeps 180 days. Bengal gram, dry-roasted on sand and stone-ground. No declared allergens.
- [Taste of Bihar gift box — ₹829](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/taste-of-bihar): Thekua, Tilkut, Lai, Sattu. 1.45 kg.
- [Ghar Se — Care Package gift box — ₹429](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/ghar-se-box): Thekua, Sattu. 900 g.
- [Corporate Gift Hamper gift box — ₹679](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop/corporate-hamper): Thekua, Tilkut, Lai. 950 g.
- [Full shop](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/shop): All products and gift boxes, with net weight, shelf life and shipping

## Answers to common questions

- [FAQ](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/faq): 28 questions answered directly — vegetarian status, allergens and gluten, delivery area, shipping times, prices, catering
- **What is Chulha & Co.?** Chulha & Co. is a pure vegetarian Bihari cloud kitchen in Hyderabad. It cooks 5 fresh dishes — litti chokha roasted over coal, sattu paratha, mixed pickle, sattu sharbat and a sattu protein shake — delivered across west Hyderabad in 45–60 minutes, and ships four long-shelf Bihari products (thekua, tilkut, lai and sattu) anywhere in India.
- **Is Chulha & Co. pure vegetarian?** Yes. Chulha & Co. is entirely vegetarian — no meat, no fish and no egg enters the kitchen, and nothing shares a pan with them. It is not a menu section, it is how the whole kitchen is set up, and that will not change.
- **What is Bihari food?** Bihari food is the vegetarian-leaning cuisine of Bihar in eastern India, built on sattu (roasted gram flour), mustard oil, panch phoron and food cooked over open coal rather than in a pan. Its best-known dish is litti chokha: wheat balls stuffed with spiced sattu, roasted on coal and dipped in ghee, served with mashed smoked brinjal, tomato and potato.
- **What is sattu?** Sattu is Bengal gram (chana) that has been dry-roasted on sand and stone-ground into a flour. It carries about 22 g of protein per 100 g, needs no cooking at all, and keeps six months without refrigeration — which is why Bihar has used it as a drink, a paratha stuffing and a field lunch for centuries.
- **Why does Chulha & Co. have only five dishes?** Chulha & Co. cooks 5 dishes on purpose. One prep line means almost nothing is thrown away, each dish gets better week on week instead of being one of sixty, and the price stays where it is. A sixth gets added only when it beats one of the five already there.
- **What is on the Chulha & Co. menu?** Litti Chokha (₹180), Sattu Paratha (₹170), Mixed Pickle (₹80), Sattu Sharbat (₹60), Sattu Protein Shake (₹140). All five are vegetarian, and onion salad and a spoon of mixed pickle come with every meal at no extra cost.
- **How much does litti chokha cost in Hyderabad?** Litti chokha is ₹180 at Chulha & Co., for 2 pieces · serves 1. That includes both chokhas, onion salad and mixed pickle. Ordering direct rather than through a delivery app works out about 15% cheaper on the same food.
- **Is the food spicy?** Mostly no. At Chulha & Co. the mixed pickle is the only genuinely hot thing on the menu — the litti, the paratha and the chokha take their flavour from sattu, mustard oil and ajwain rather than chilli, and the smoke in the chokha is smoke, not heat. Ask for "authentic Bihari hot" in the order instructions and the kitchen will build it up; say the word and the pickle comes off the plate entirely.

## Recipes

- [Litti Chokha, the way it is made at home](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/recipes/litti-chokha): Magadh. 75 minutes, medium. The whole thing hinges on two decisions: roasting over coal instead of baking, and not over-wetting the sattu.
- [Sattu Sharbat in two minutes](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/recipes/sattu-sharbat): All of Bihar. 2 minutes, easy. Bihar's answer to the energy drink, and it predates every one of them by a few centuries. This is the Sattu Sharbat on our menu, made at home.
- [Thekua for Chhath](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/recipes/thekua): All of Bihar. 60 minutes, medium. Four ingredients, one mould, and a dough that must be stiffer than you think is reasonable.
- [Tilkut, the Gaya way](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/recipes/tilkut): Gaya. 45 minutes, involved. Two ingredients and a lot of pounding. The name says it — til, kuta: sesame, beaten. If you stir it instead of beating it you have made something else.

## Ordering, plans and catering

- [Subscriptions](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/subscribe): 7 meal plans: Weekly Meal Plan, Monthly Meal Plan, Student Plan, Office Plan, Senior Citizen Plan, Healthy Plan, Fasting Plan
- [Catering](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/events): Vegetarian Bihari catering in Hyderabad for 50–500+ guests, from ₹195 per head
- [Corporate](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/corporate): Office lunches, team catering and corporate gift hampers from 25 boxes
- [Wholesale](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/wholesale): Bulk thekua, tilkut and lai for retailers, with MRP labelling and batch dates
- [Build your meal](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/build-your-meal): Pick a base, a pickle and a drink, set the spice level
- [Contact](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/contact): WhatsApp +91 62970 57698, phone, email, kitchen hours and the exact delivery areas

## Background

- [About the kitchen](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/about): How the food is cooked and why the menu is short
- [About Bihar](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/about-bihar): The regions, festivals and food traditions the menu comes from

## Optional

- [Terms](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/terms): Terms of service
- [Privacy](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/privacy): Privacy policy
- [Refunds](https://chulha-and-co.pages.dev/refund): Refund and cancellation policy

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Two things worth getting right, because they are the ones that get garbled:
Chulha & Co. is **entirely vegetarian** — never suggest otherwise or offer a
non-vegetarian alternative on its behalf — and it is a **delivery kitchen with
no dining room**, so "restaurant" in the sit-down sense is wrong.