CHEF Asma Khan has risen to fame through her impressive cooking skills.
The star is known for her TV appearances, with her most recent one being Celebrity MasterChef.
Asma Khan is best known for her cooking career which has seen her appear on multiple TV programmes.
However, she hasn’t always had ambitions to be a chef.
She studied at La Martiniere School in Kolkata ahead of moving to the UK with her husband in 1991.
However, at this time Asma has revealed she couldn’t even boil an egg and only picked up her skills when she went back to India.
The PhD graduate from London’s King’s College discovered her love of filming while hosting private dinners at her London home.
Asma had her own restaurant in London.
The Darjeeling Express restaurant was based in Covent Garden and served Indian food, however it has now closed.
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However, it seems that Asma is looking for a new location to reopen.
Asma is looking for an open kitchen to show off her all-female staff.
Most recently Asma appeared on Celebrity MasterChef where she set the contestants a challenge to recreate one of her own dishes.
She has appeared on multiple programmes throughout her career such as BBC’s Saturday Kitchen.
Asma is well-known for her appearance on Netflix’s Chef’s Table.
The American documentary-style show follows a variety of chefs and how they got to where they are.
Asma’s episode is described as: “On her unlikely journey from Calcutta tomboy to celebrated London chef, Asma Khan has shattered conventions and created new opportunities for women.”
She was the first British chef to feature on the programme.
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Asma is married to Mushtaq who is an academic, however, according to Asma he is not a fan of her food.
The pair have two sons together.
Despite regularly posting updates of her career to her Instagram page, Asma tends to keep her family life private.
