Description

Amul Whole Wheat Atta 5 KG is chapati flour in the five kilo size, from the dairy cooperative whose butter is in most Indian fridges. The atta is a newer line and a perfectly ordinary one, which in flour is a compliment.

Five kilos is the size that suits most families here. Ten kilos is cheaper per kilo but takes two months to get through and the last of it is never as good as the first. Five is roughly a month of daily rotis for four people, which is about as long as an opened sack should stand.

Five kilos or ten? Five if you want the flour to stay good all the way to the bottom, ten if price per kilo matters more and you have somewhere cool and dry to keep it. A month is the honest window for opened atta.

Is Amul atta different from the big flour brands? Not in any way you would notice at the tawa. It is whole wheat chapati flour of the usual sort. Buy it if the price is right or the brand is familiar, not expecting it to behave differently from Aashirvaad or Pillsbury.

In a smaller bag, the KRG chakki fresh atta at 1.5 kilos suits one or two people, and chapati attas at Panjab Supermarket run from 1 kilo up to 25. Vegetarian. Decant a few days’ worth into a smaller airtight tin and keep the sack rolled shut, because a big bag left open goes stale and draws weevils. Order online at Panjab Supermarket for same-day delivery across Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn, Vleuten, Maarssen, Zeist, Bunnik, IJsselstein, Vianen, and Culemborg. Free delivery on orders over 49 euros.