Manju Malhi
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| Cooking style | Brit Indi & Indian cuisine |
| TV Show(s) | Saturday Cooks - ITV1 Saturday Kitchen - BBC Blue Peter - BBC Taste - Sky One Great Food Live - UKTV Food Food Uncut - UKTV Food Urban Icons - BBC3 Open House - C5 This Morning - ITV1 Breakfast News - BBC1 Terry and Gaby Show - C5 |
Manju Malhi was raised in North West London where she grew up surrounded by Indian culture, traditions and lifestyles. However, she spent several years of her childhood in India where she explored and experienced the vast and varied cuisines of the country. In her cooking, she draws up on her past and combines it with the realities of urban Western life and has come up with her own unique Brit-Indi style of food. It’s easy Indian homecooking. She won the BBC Food and Drink’s competition in 1999 and cooked with Antony Worrall Thompson on BBC2 and was invited back a second time.
Manju’s Simply Indian series was aired on the Taste Network in early 2001, and her award winning book Brit Spice was published in 2002 by Penguin Books, and the paperback version in June 2003. She has also appeared amongst several other programmes, on ITV’s This Morning, Channel 5’s Open House and The Terry and Gaby Show, Sky One, UKTV Food’s Good Food Live and BBC2’s Saturday Kitchen.
Her latest book covers regional Indian home cuisine, was published by Mitchell Beazley in 2004 and is entitled India with Passion. Manju is now working on her third book and exploring more ideas on simple yet delicious dishes which she hopes will encourage more and more people to experiment with spices and make more Asian delicacies. Manju has been asked to create the concept of a ‘British’ restaurant in Delhi. She loves hosting cookery theatres around the country promoting the easy ethos of Indian home cooking.Her other work that keeps her fed and watered is writing on Indian food for newspapers and magazines, voice overs for BBC News 24, BBC World and the BBC Asian Network.
While writing and researching for her books, she does live continuity announcing for BBC2 television introducing Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, and is the voice on the BBC Food channel. She is working with the VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) and their next Big Curry Night this March asking the nation to make contact, make food and make a difference. The fundraising event is a kind of ‘Cash for Curry’ concept where she has devised a complete menu with recipes including the VSO Veggie Special.
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