About the Role

Mithai Mama is a cloud-kitchen mithai brand. We’re looking for a hands-on mithai chef who will cook in our kitchen every day and lead product development: creating new flavour combinations and fusion mithai and guiding the rest of our kitchen team to make them right.

You’ll create the products, show the team how to make them, and make sure every batch meets our quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cook and create

· Make traditional and new mithai by hand in the kitchen, every day.

· Come up with new mithai combinations, both twists on classics and fusion products that bring in global desserts and flavours (for example, cheesecake kalakand).

· Experiment with ingredients, flavour pairings, textures and presentation until each product is right.

· Judge which combinations will work and why, based on how the flavours pair, how the bases behave, texture, and how long the product will last.

· Keep a pipeline of ideas ready for new launches, seasonal menus and festive collections.

· Track dessert and flavour trends in India and abroad and bring forward the ones that suit our brand.

2. Guide the kitchen team

· Train the kitchen team on new products: show them the method, the ratios, and how the finished product should taste and look.

· Taste the team’s batches and tell them exactly what to adjust, whether that’s ratios, sweetness, ingredients, method or presentation.

· Explain why something isn’t working and show the fix.

· Standardise recipes, measurements and batch sizes so anyone on the team can make the product consistently.

· Help scale recipes from trial quantities to regular production.

3.



Quality and standards

· Set clear quality standards for every product: taste, texture, consistency, appearance and shelf life.

· Check regularly that batches meet those standards, and correct them when they don’t.

· Make sure new products are tested for shelf life and storage before launch.

· Make sure hygiene, food safety and positive production practices are followed in the kitchen.

· Check the quality of raw materials and flag issues or suggest suitable alternatives.

· Keep proper records of recipes, trials and quality benchmarks.

What We’re Looking For

· Hands-on experience making mithai is essential. You should be able to make a wide range of Indian sweets yourself.

· Experience in product development, R&D; or creating new menu items, ideally including fusion desserts.

· Deep knowledge of Indian sweet bases (khoya, chhena, besan, dry fruits, sugar syrups) and how they behave when you change them.

· A strong, creative palate and good knowledge of global desserts and flavours.

· Experience guiding, training or leading other cooks in a kitchen.

· A strong grasp of food quality, shelf life, hygiene and food safety standards, and the attention to detail to keep every batch consistent.

· Comfortable in a fast-paced startup or cloud-kitchen environment.

The Ideal Candidate A chef who loves mithai and isn’t afraid to reinvent it. You can make the classics perfectly, see new directions for them, and know which ones will work. You lead from the kitchen: you create the product, teach the team to make it, and make sure it tastes the same every time.

Work Location: In person

📌 Lead Mithai Chef – Product Development (Traditional & Fusion) (Mumbai)
🏢 Comprint tech- Solution(I
📍 Mumbai