Home-cooking has been a heady, fun affair these past two weeks — from tossing up a warm salad with a peanut and lime dip to whipping up stir-fried rice with teriyaki sauce and a hot soup with a punch of miso ginger.

Cue, the new entrant on the block, Boombay — a line of dips, sauces and spreads that jazzed up our food cravings without having to order in. Launched by Niharika Goenka and chef Aditi Keni last week, the platform was in the making for two years, during which they toured the country to source ingredients from farms and collectives, test flavour combinations, and run 20 to 50 trials. The two met in 2019, a year after Goenka reached out to Keni. “I was at a bar and happened to tell the bartender that I was looking for a chef. The bartender introduced me to a guest who was from hospitality and asked him to help me find a chef. The guest told me Aditi Keni was the chef I needed to revive my project,” recalls Goenka, who has a background in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Columbia University. She had launched Arugula & Co, a health food start-up in 2018. At the time, Keni was working on another project in Bengaluru.