Khidmat
The basmati written into a chef’s standing order — served when the guest is the reason for the table.
“Khidmat — the Urdu word for the considered act of service; the quiet attention paid to a guest before they have to ask.”
The name sets the brief. Khidmat is the group’s premium basmati line — aged a minimum of twenty-four months in climate-controlled silos, hand-cleaned, length-graded to 8.3 mm and above, and dispatched only against a written QC certificate. It is built for kitchens that cannot afford a variable plate.
Twenty-four months of patience,
set down on porcelain.
Length comes from the field. Aroma comes from the silo. Bloom — that lengthening of the grain to nearly twice its raw measure on contact with steam — that comes only from time, and from refusing to sell it any earlier than the harvest is ready.
Khidmat is the answer to a chef who refuses to apologise for the rice.
A discount is a margin lever.
Khidmat is a standard.
A discount on premium basmati always indicates a substitution upstream — a younger grain, a thinner age window, or a procurement rate below what the grower needs to grade his harvest properly. Khidmat is priced against none of those compromises.
The line is sold on specification, not on promotion. Grain length, aging period, moisture content and aroma grade are documented per lot and published on the QC certificate that accompanies every dispatch.
A grain is the sum of how its grower was treated.
Khidmat basmati is procured from a closed network of grower partnerships across the Punjab and Haryana basmati belt — under multi-season contracts, at procurement rates above the prevailing mandi average, settled in full within an agreed window after delivery.
The framework exists for a single reason: it gives the grower a commercial reason to set his best harvest aside for us, rather than route it through the spot market. The difference shows up in length, in bloom, and in the silos that grain is willing to sit through for two years.
Five grades.
One specification floor across all of them.
- IPremium Aged BasmatiExtra Long GrainAged24 monthsFormat1 kg · 5 kg · 25 kg
- IIClassic BasmatiLong GrainAged12 monthsFormat1 kg · 5 kg
- IIIHoReCa Bulk BasmatiRestaurant GradeAged12 monthsFormat30 kg jute
- IVExport Premium BasmatiExtra Long GrainAged18 monthsFormat5 kg vacuum
- VBiryani SpecialExtra AromaticAged18 monthsFormat1 kg · 5 kg · 30 kg
For kitchens that put the same dish on the pass, every service.
The Khidmat HoReCa grade is engineered against banquet repeatability: identical grain length, identical bloom, identical cooked yield, dispatch after dispatch. Standing-order pricing, dedicated dispatch slots and a named account lead are written into the contract.
Request HoReCa pricing- Documented grain lengthGraded ≥ 8.3 mm on every dispatched lot
- 30 kg food-grade juteLined, dust-free, palletised to spec
- Single point of accountA named dispatch lead per buyer
Container lots cleared monthly
from Mundra and Nhava Sheva.
Halal-compatible lines on request. APEDA, phytosanitary and country-of-origin documentation prepared in-house and dispatched with the booking. Destination labelling — Arabic, French, English — produced against the importer’s artwork.
A figure on the pack
is a figure on the lab report.
List Khidmat on your shelf.
Sample dispatch on request. Indicative pricing by email. Account terms agreed in writing — as terms ought always to be.
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