![]() “It lasts longer, you can cook at higher temperatures, you can keep it at room temperature forever. “It should be a simple item for folks to get behind because it’s just butter, but it’s better from a flavour perspective because it’s browned,” he says. The next step was (and still is) educating people on how to use it. Naga knew he had a great and versatile product. After a lengthy regulatory battle over the shelf stability of his ghee (because the milk solids are removed from the butter in the cooking process, ghee, like most cooking oils can happily sit open in your pantry as long as you’d like), OG Ghee was born in May 2022. Naga’s Fresh with Vresh customers started requesting to buy extra ghee to use with other meals and, as the constant cooking to maintain the meal kits became unsustainable, Naga recognized the potential of building a business based on South Asian pantry items. Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia Photo by Darren Makowichuk / DARREN MAKOWICHUK/Postmedia ![]() Vreshin Naga of Vresh Foods started making OG Ghee during the pandemic. ![]() Naga is not one to sit on his laurels, so the cooking grew into social media posts, which kickstarted his Fresh with Vresh meal kits, a pandemic venture that became wildly popular with local foodies in the know. Laid off from his job in the construction industry, he comforted himself by cooking, with a focus on the Indian cuisine he grew up with during his childhood in Dubai. Naga’s ghee journey started, as so many modern food startups have, at the beginning of the pandemic. ![]()
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