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Indian catering · Seattle, the Sound & Kitsap

Hot at one end
of the table.
Mild at the other.

You choose the spice for every dish, not once for the whole order. So the vindaloo can be properly hot and the butter chicken stays mild for the kids — on the same table, at the same party.

Quote comes back
Usually the same day
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A plate, start to finish

This is what a good
Indian table looks like.

Five dishes, one from each part of the meal. Tap any of them to start your own menu.

  1. Something to start

    Vegetable Samosa

    Crisp pastry triangles filled with spiced potato and peas.

    Mild
  2. Off the grill

    Tandoori Chicken

    Bone-in, scored to the bone and marinated overnight. Quartered for service.

    Medium
  3. The big pot

    Goat Biryani

    Bone-in goat layered through saffron rice. Rich enough to carry a table on its own.

    Medium
  4. Fresh bread

    Laccha Paratha

    Layered and flaky, pulls apart in sheets.

  5. Something sweet

    Jalebi

    Fried spirals soaked in saffron syrup. Only good hot, so we fry on site.

That's five dishes. The full menu has a lot more — chaat, curries, kebabs, breads and sweets.

How it's cooked

Some of it cooks all night.
Some can't wait a minute.

Cooked overnight

Dal makhani is black lentils left on the heat all night with butter and cream. Goat and lamb go in on the bone and stay there for hours, until the meat falls apart on its own. You can't rush any of it, and we don't try.

Made in the last hour

Bread comes out of the oven in the last hour and travels wrapped in cloth, so it's still soft at the end of the line. Pani puri we fill in front of your guests — one that's been sitting for twenty minutes is a different thing altogether. Jalebi we fry at your venue, because jalebi is only good hot.

The extra step

The okra gets fried before it ever goes in the pan, so it never turns slimy. That one step is the whole difference between good bhindi masala and a bowl nobody touches. Most dishes here have a step like that in them.

Heat

You pick the spice, dish by dish.

Most caterers set one spice level for the whole order — usually the mildest person in the room — and then everybody else is a bit let down. You say “not too spicy” four times and still worry about it on the way there.

Tell us once, dish by dish. Butter chicken mild for the kids. Vindaloo properly hot on the same table — we won't talk you out of it. Everything else somewhere in between.

Mild doesn't mean plain. Take the chilli right out and the dish still tastes of cardamom, browned onion and fenugreek. That's the part people actually remember.

Vegetarian food

Somebody's grandmother has not eaten at a catered party in years.

She isn't being fussy. She's been to enough parties to know that the “vegetarian option” usually came out of the same pan, off the same spoon, and out of the same fryer oil as the chicken.

Not here. Separate pans, separate spoons, separate oil in the fryer. Vegan dishes get no dairy at any point — no butter at the end, no cream in the sauce. Every tray is labelled, so nobody has to ask a stranger what's in it.

Jain and temple rules are different in every family. Tell us which ones yours keeps — no onion, no garlic, no root vegetables, a table kept completely separate — and we'll tell you honestly what we can and can't do.

Not sure where to start?

Six menus,
ready to go.

Feeding a hundred and fifty people is a lot to work out from a blank page. Each of these is a full menu for a real occasion, with the right amount of food for the number of people. Use one as it is, or change anything you like.

  • Receptions & big celebrations

    150 guests

    The Wedding Table

    Goat on the bone, a sealed biryani pot and dal makhani cooked overnight — the spread people expect at a Punjabi wedding, with enough range that nobody's left picking at rice.

    To start
    Paneer Tikka, Chicken Tikka, Vegetable Samosa, Pani Puri
    Mains
    Butter Chicken, Goat Curry, Dal Makhani, Palak Paneer, Goat Biryani
    Rice & bread
    Garlic Naan, Steamed Basmati Rice
    Sides
    Cucumber Raita, Mint & Coriander Chutney
    Sweet
    Gulab Jamun
  • Team lunches & all-hands

    40 guests

    The Office Lunch

    Mild enough that nobody's caught out, with a vegetarian main that isn't an afterthought. Set up on a table, eaten standing, cleared by two.

    To start
    Vegetable Samosa, Veggie Pakora, Chicken Tikka
    Mains
    Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Paneer Butter Masala, Chana Masala
    Rice & bread
    Steamed Basmati Rice, Garlic Naan
    Sides
    Cucumber Raita, Mint & Coriander Chutney
    Sweet
    Gulab Jamun
  • Offices with no room for a buffet

    30 guests

    Boxed to the Desk

    Individually sealed and labelled with contents and allergens. One per person, no line, no serving spoons to wash.

    Boxes
    Butter Chicken Bowl, Masala Chicken Bowl, Butter Paneer Bowl, Chickpea Bowl
    To drink
    Mango Lassi
  • Temple events & veg households

    100 guests

    The Vegetarian Table

    Fully vegetarian, cooked in separate pans with separate utensils. Six dishes deep, so it reads as a cuisine rather than an accommodation.

    To start
    Paneer Tikka, Veggie Pakora, Aloo Tikki, Samosa Chaat
    Mains
    Paneer Butter Masala, Dal Makhani, Chana Masala, Baingan Bharta, Vegetable Biryani
    Rice & bread
    Garlic Naan, Jeera Rice
    Sides
    Cucumber Raita, Mint & Coriander Chutney
    Sweet
    Ras Malai
  • Guests who grew up on this food

    80 guests

    The Punjabi Feast

    Amritsari fish, seekh off the skewer, sarson da saag and a vindaloo we won't talk you down from. Built for a table that knows the difference.

    To start
    Amritsari Fish Fry, Lamb Seekh Kabab, Chili Paneer
    Mains
    Goat Curry, Chicken Vindaloo, Sarson da Saag, Dal Makhani
    Rice & bread
    Laccha Paratha, Jeera Rice
    Sides
    Kachumber Salad, Mango Pickle
    Sweet
    Gajar Halwa
  • Birthdays & houses full of family

    25 guests

    The Small Gathering

    The short version of a good Indian table. Two things to pick at, three to spoon over rice, and something sweet at the end.

    To start
    Vegetable Samosa, Paneer Tikka
    Mains
    Butter Chicken, Dal Makhani, Chana Masala
    Rice & bread
    Garlic Naan, Steamed Basmati Rice
    Sides
    Cucumber Raita, Mint & Coriander Chutney
    Sweet
    Gulab Jamun

Who's eating

Every event
is different.

Weddings
A wedding is a whole weekend, not one meal. The mehndi wants food people can eat standing up — pani puri filled fresh, tikki straight off the griddle. The reception wants the big dishes: goat on the bone, dal cooked overnight, biryani opened at the table. Send us the whole weekend and we'll plan it so nobody eats the same thing twice.
Office lunches
Nobody thanks you for a good lunch. They only remember a bad one. About half this menu is vegetarian anyway, and those are proper dishes — not the meat ones with the meat left out. Every tray is labelled. If people sit on different floors, we can box it up instead.
Temples & gurdwaras
Langar is fully vegetarian and we cook it that way from the first pan, not fixed at the end. If your rule is no onion and no garlic, tell us and we'll say straight away what we can and can't cook. If your own volunteers are serving, we hand it over hot and stay out of the way.
Birthdays & memorials
For a memorial you don't have to decide anything. Send the day and the number of people and we'll suggest the food ourselves — simple, warm, familiar. For a birthday, sixty people in a house is a different job to a hall. We turn up with the food already hot, so you get to sit down and eat too.

Where we deliver

Poulsbo to Bellevue,
Marysville to Olympia.

43 towns and cities. We build the ferry crossing into the timings with room to spare, and delivery is priced on its own line so it never shows up later as a surprise.

  • Seattle & the Eastside

    Seattle · Bellevue · Redmond and more

  • North Sound

    Everett · Lynnwood · Edmonds and more

  • South Sound

    Tacoma · Kent · Auburn and more

  • Kitsap Peninsula

    Bainbridge Island · Poulsbo · Silverdale and more

See the full map
Map of Puget Sound marking the cities Jeera Catering delivers to, from Marysville in the north to Olympia in the south, across Seattle, the Eastside and the Kitsap Peninsula.SeattleEverettTacomaGig HarborOlympiaBainbridge IslandPoulsboBremerton

Before you ask

The boring bits,
up front.

We need at least 20 people, and 3 days' notice for most orders — longer for a wedding weekend, a week for seafood over a hundred. Ask anyway if your date is sooner. We'll tell you honestly whether we can do it.

There are no prices here because the number depends on how many people you're feeding, how many dishes you pick, whether we drop off or stay and serve, and how far we drive. Send us your menu and you get all of it back, line by line.

We arrive 45 minutes before you eat, to set everything up and light the burners. Trays, burners, fuel and serving spoons are all included.

The paperwork

Permitted food establishment
Inspected and permitted by the county health district, with certified food handlers on every job.
Commercial liability cover
Fully insured. We'll send the certificate to your venue's events team directly, on request.
Registered Washington business
A licensed WA limited liability company. Invoices, W-9s and COIs on request — the paperwork your finance team needs.

What's the date, and how many are you feeding?

That's enough to start. Pick your dishes and send it, or send the date and the headcount with nothing picked and we'll propose the food ourselves. No payment at any point.