The KFI Family Story began with a love of traditional food, how to share recipes with family and friends, to developing products so KFI can bring traditional tastes from their kitchen to yours...

Beginning with a love of food...
As a young bride of 22 and a recent immigrant to Canada, Kiran Kataria learned the basics of Indian and Italian cooking. She had grown up knowing gourmet Indian food and knew how authentic Indian food should taste. Kiran liked cooking and started experimenting with tastes. She started adding her own spice combinations, like Basil and Tulsi – a well known Indian herb. Kids who were used to hamburgers and pasta loved her Indian food. Kiran' s passion grew. She constantly experimented so her dishes could be made faster and with a more Canadian taste. As an entrepreneurial working woman but valuing the tradition of being able to look after her growing family, Kiran wanted her dishes to be fast and delicious.

Then how to share her recipes...
As more and more people praised her dishes, Kiran had an idea. Why not start up a food company that manufactures a high quality Canadian brand of Indian food? She was already making excellent traditional-style chutneys – the ketchup, relish and mustard of Indian food. Rishi, one of her sons, quickly realized there was an opportunity available. No one was making an Indo-Canadian version of Indian food. All the major brands were being imported. Rishi recognized the need. Second generation Indo-Canadians still loved traditional food the way mom used to make, but they couldn't make it. Could the family food company become the Indian Kraft? In 2004 KFI Foods was created.

By getting the family involved...
In 2006, husband Ranbir and sons Rishi and Raman were ready when Kiran launched her first two products – Tamarind & Date Chutney Sauce in mild and Hot & Spicy Flavours. They hit the streets after working their full-time jobs delivering products, driving from store to store and doing demonstrations. On weekends Raman and Rishi would do sampling sessions at local grocery stores. Kiran and Rishi were persuasively successful in getting Loblaw, Highland Farms and other stores to stock KFI product.

And developing more products...
By 2008, Kiran had developed a line of chutney sauces in 6 different flavours, including a sauce unique to KFI Foods – Achari Mango Chutney Sauce. Reminiscent of the true flavours of India, it was an instant success. In 2009, KFI foods expanded into cooking sauces. The company launched three sauces that had been a trade secret in the restaurant business. These three KFI foods 'mother' sauces can be used to create over 20 different traditional-style dishes! Kiran and head taster, Rishi make sure they have the exact taste and precise profile just right for each product.

Traditional tastes from the KFI kitchens to yours...
Simple ingredients, high quality and innovative tastes – KFI Foods are the ideal Indo-Canadian version of Indian food – just like mom, or Kiran used to make. The Kataria family knows life is hectic! But when tradition matters, let the KFI Kitchen come to your kitchen with Sauces and Chutneys that make everyday meals fast and delicious!