Masterchef 2017: Doctor Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed wins title

Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed, 29, from Watford, kick off fellow-competitors Giovanna Ryan and Steve Kielty.

Saliha tender judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace as a “class act”.

She pronounced she wanted to mix her adore of cooking with her medical career, by assisting people with special dietary conditions find their ideal foods.

The youth alloy and mum-of-one, who battled from 64 pledge cooks to take a prize, substituted on-call shifts with colleagues to safeguard she could take partial in a contest.

In her career, she specialises in gastroenterology – though she also dreams of essay cookbooks and rebellious obesity.

On her win, Saliha said: “To be a Masterchef champion is illusory and wonderful. Adjectives are not sufficient. This is really a coolest thing I’ve ever finished in my life!
“It concerned a lot of tough work and early starts – late nights cooking after 13-hour prolonged shifts, no holidays, no breaks, no nap – though it was good value it!”
Friday night’s final on BBC One saw a contingent tasked with scheming a three-course dish in 3 hours for a judges to sample.

Venison shami kebab, with cashew and coriander immature chutney, chana dal and a kachumbar salad – in memory of her grandmother’s residence in Pakistan

Kashmiri-style sous-vide steep breast, with crispy steep skin, freekeh wheatgrain, spiced with dusty barberries, walnuts and coriander, a cherry chutney and a steep and cherry sauce. 

Saffron rosewater and cardamom panna cotta, served with a deconstructed baklava, including candied pistachios, pistachio honeycomb, filo fritter shards and kumquats – a dessert desirous by her childhood adore of baklava
Saliha’s dish was praised by decider Gregg Wallace as: “East meets West” and “simply overwhelming – pleasing art on a plate”.

Fellow decider John Torode said: “She’s walked in here and taken her food enlightenment detached and put it behind together in a complicated and really sparkling way”.

Saliha’s adore of cooking was shabby by her family and she was also speedy by a teacher, who, during 15, entered her into a propagandize Chef of a Year competition, that she won.

“I’m from a large Pakistani family and we use food as a approach of bringing everybody together,” she said.

“I had really ardent grandmothers who baked normal Pakistani food and my silent is also an glorious cook. We adore to feed people – it runs in the genes.

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