In talks with home chef Ritu Jaiswal from Lucknow

Gone are the days when only hotels and restaurants offered respite from your everyday home cooked meals. The trend of home chefs has finally taken over the city of Lucknow with extremely talented chefs making the Lucknow food culture proud. Ritu Jaiswal is one such chef who has made a respactable name in the Lucknow home cooking arena and has become a favourite of the Lucknowites as fas as home cooked food ordering is concerned.

Fashion Herald recently got a chance to interview thsi phonominal talent and a self made lady and found out more about the intricacies of bcoming a commercial home chef.

Ordering from a home chef is good if you like homemade food which has a lot more homely touch than your average restaurant cooked food. There is always someting new to look forward to. The food is really good and nothing can beat the original taste of home cooking. With her extensive menu, Ritu Jaiswal has an interessting talent to always come up with recepies that suit your tastes.

Not only the awesome taste and hygiene, the food offered by Ritu Jaiswal is fairly priced with lots of interesting varieties to choose from. If you can afford it, you can try food delivery and surprise yourself with how you ever lived without them !

In this interview, Ritu Jaiswal shares her experience and her story behind choosing this profession of chef, her struggles and acheivements and tips to how you can cook restaurant-like food at home.

She is a grand advocate of home cooking as  homemade food is always better than outside food, as restaurants always have more customers, so they always keep the cooking ingredients in bulk and store them in a deep freezer. In contrast, home chefs use fresh ingredients instead of deep freezers food that are beneficial for health.Moreover, not everyone who has a passion of cooking can do a job at a restaurant or a hotel. So home cooking and the best way to follow your passion.

Ritu, being a house wife had to look after her family, so a job was not really an option for her.  She is too fond of her famliy. So she decided to set her own kitchen and she founded PK Foveros bakes in 2019. She thought of starting her own brand as she could not work in a hotel for 8 to 10 hours. SInce then shee has participated and won many competitions and live shows and has also received many certificates.

Being from the city of nawabs, she focuses more on Mughlai cuisine and Awadhi cuisine and she has a different attachment to Mughlai cuisine also. She wants to promote Mughlai cuisine.

When she was asked to tell some way for common people can cook like a chef,then she simply said not to just copy any recipe you find online blindly. If you do so then you will end make tasting like restaurant food so whats the point?
She saiys you must always use your own mothodology while working with a recepie. That way you always come up with something of your own and can be very creative though which people will recognise you eventually.

Ritu Jaiswal is very hardworking. She likes to work on her own and keeps on inventing the new recipe. She recently made Galawati Kebab from oatmeal, a tasty and nutirtious treat for the vegens out there ! Another of her creations id ‘Tulsi Ki Chutney’ made from Basil leaves. We now dont need to tell you how healthy that will be.

Ritu makes the best biryani and kebabs, everyone likes her hand biryani and kababs and she tells that she can make both these things blindly.

She now wants to establish her brand Pk Foberos Bakes (Cookery and Bakery) with an extended menu full of Mughlai cuisines. And she wants her menu to be very budget friendly, so that almost everyone can afford it. She wants her cokking to be known nationwide and she is not going to stop untill her food reaches every city in India. To Ritu, earning people’s love is much more that earning money. We wish Ritu Jaiswal all the best for her future endeavors.