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Vedic Hindustan is focused on reviving our old traditional way of cooking in clay pots. 100% pure Clay Products: Kitchenware, Eating Utensils, Jewellery and Festival season products are available for purchase. All the prices are in New Zealand Dollars (NZ$). We accept domestic and international orders. Delivery of products is with collaboration with New Zealand Post, and online payment will be taken in a secure in conjunction with ANZ bank.

Apple Crumble made in a Clay Tray
Herb’s Bun made in a Clay Tray
How to make Roti on a Clay Tava & store uncooked Roti’s
Butter and Buttermilk made in a Clay Pot
Muesli made in a Clay Tray
Yogurt made in a Clay Pot
Cinnamon Rolls
Baked Kumara
Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Topping
Appe (Gulpanglu) made in a Clay Appe Tava
Do’s and Don’t while using Clay Pots for cooking
Blueberry Pie made in Clay Bowl and Plate
Ghee (Clarified Butter) made in Clay Pot
Pizza made in a Clay Tray Outdoor and Indoor
Eggless Carob Cake made in a Clay Tray
Chickpeas & Paneer Sabji cooked in Clay Pot
How to cook Rice in Clay Pot

General Information

Earthenware pots are relatively inexpensive and beautiful to look. Clay is somewhat porous. Heat and moisture circulate through the pot during cooking, unlike with metal or enamel-lined pots. The second thing that makes these pots unique is that the clay is alkaline. The clay will interact with acidity in the food, neutralising the pH balance. Something that is naturally very acidic, like a tomato sauce, will take on some natural sweetness when cooked in a clay pot.

Health Benefits of Using Clay Pots

  • Clay pots add many essential nutrients like calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium and sulphur to food.
  • Clay contains all the possible vitamins, even vitamin B12
  • Clay is also alkaline and thus, acts neutralized the acidity in the food, which makes it easier for us to digest.
  • Cooked food does not have required nutrition’s if the food is cooked in metal utensils. Clay cookware keeps nutrition’s safe while cooking
  • The food cooked in Clay pots is much tastier.

Cooking in the Jagannath Temple in Puri     

All the cooking pots in the Jagannath temple in Puri are made of clay and are used only one time in cooking.

Srila Prabhupada described:

In the Jagannath temple, the arrangement is that the prasada is cooked every day in a new earthen pot. No old pots are used. Once used they are thrown away. Formerly this was the system in India. There was no washing. Even golden and silver dishes used once were thrown away. In India, amongst strict Hindus, when earthen dishes are used once they are thrown away. Just like you have got paper plates here. You eat off them and throw them away. (Room Conversation, Montreal, July 16, 1968)

The Jagannath Mandir uses the services of around three hundred full-time potters to supply the cooking vessels for the Lord of the Universe. Every day bullock carts full of various types of pots enter the temple from the southern gate, from where the suaras, cooks, take them according to their needs. There are strict rules in force. Only red-coloured pots are used, and once a clay pot has been put on the fire it cannot be reused. New cooking pots are called kuduas. Their thick walls retain heat very well. After cooking and offering, the prasada stays warm for four to five hours.