Cut open the package, pour the gravy over pieces of fish, cook for five minutes and your fish curry is ready! Fresh Onlive’s ‘ready to chatty’ (mud pot) fish curry mixes are the brainchild of Fort Kochi native Saneera VM.
The 48-year-old economics graduate ran a business delivering cut and cleaned fish in 2016. Less than a year later family commitments led her to shut shop. Later she moved on to sell pathiri, appam, idiyappam and chapathi that she cooked herself but her efforts wound up during the pandemic.
“Once things started opening up, I thought of going back to the fish business; after all, that was my core area. Then I considered including value-added products. Why not ready-to-make fish curry? It is easy for people on the go; your fish curry is ready in five minutes or so, you don’t even need to add salt to the mix,” informs Saneera. Her experience in food-tech comes from the courses she has done in food processing and packaging.
