🥛Dairy Free Indian Food

No milk, cream, butter, ghee, yoghurt or paneer

Dairy sneaks into Indian food in more places than people expect — the ghee a dish is started in, the splash of cream at the end, the yoghurt in a marinade, and of course the paneer. Our dairy-free box leaves all of it out: no milk, cream, butter, ghee, yoghurt or paneer. If lactose is your trigger, you can eat the whole box without doing detective work over each dish.

That matters most for the meals you eat on autopilot. A quick weeknight dinner is exactly when a hidden knob of butter or a yoghurt-based marinade slips past you, so having a box you already know is clear takes the guesswork out of the meals you are least likely to check.

Coconut, tomato and tempered dals do the work

Rather than reaching for cream, we lean on gravies that never needed dairy in the first place — coconut-based curries, tomato-and-onion masalas, and dals finished with a spiced oil tempering. Tandoori dishes carry their flavour from the marinade and the grill, not from butter. The result is food that tastes complete on its own terms, not like a dish with the dairy scraped out of it.

Dairy-free is not the same as vegan

This is the distinction that trips people up. Dairy-free means no dairy — but it can still include meat and fish, so you keep far more of the menu, including our halal chicken and lamb dishes and the coconut fish curry. Vegan goes further and removes every animal product. If you only need to avoid dairy, stay here and keep the meat. If you avoid all animal products, the Vegan box is the one built for that.

Fewer gambles at the counter

If you are lactose intolerant, university catering can be a gamble — the “safe” options run out fast and the rest are a wall of cheese and cream. A weekly dairy-free box gives you meals you already know are clear, sitting in the fridge, ready to heat when you get in from a late seminar. No quizzing a kitchen about whether there is butter in the sauce.

Where dairy hides in Indian food

Dairy is woven through Indian cooking in ways that are easy to miss. A dal is often tempered in ghee; a tomato curry may be softened with a splash of cream; tandoori and tikka marinades are built on yoghurt; and butter is doing quiet work in the background of many gravies. That is before you get to the obvious paneer. Ordering the vegetarian option is no guarantee it is dairy-free.

The dairy-free box is put together to avoid every one of those: oil rather than ghee, coconut and tomato rather than cream, spice-and-oil tempering rather than butter, and marinades that do not lean on yoghurt. You get food that was built dairy-free, not a dish with the milk quietly left in.

Delivered to 190+ universities

We deliver dairy-free boxes to 190+ universities and 200+ cities across the UK. Drop your postcode into the checker below to confirm your accommodation is on our route before you order.

Delivered frozen

Boxes arrive frozen. Keep frozen in your freezer, then reheat from frozen until piping hot. Weekly meal boxes, with subscribe weekly and the freedom to skip or cancel any week.