Fateha Khanom Wiki, Age, MasterChef, Partner, Husband, Family, Religion, Ethnicity
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Fateha Khanom Biography – Fateha Khanom Wiki
Fateha Khanom is a Birmingham-born Bangladeshi teacher and contestant on BBC One’s MasterChef 2024. Her late father was a chef and ran his own Indian restaurant in Wolverhampton for over 25 years.
She told the BBC about her earliest cooking memory: “I remember as teenager, I started off learning the basics of a Bengali curry – I had to peel ginger and garlic to make a paste for my mum to cook at home, then learnt how to chop onions. I started to cook meals when I was in my early 20s and really enjoyed experimenting with different flavours and infusing Eastern and Western cultures.”
Describing her style of cooking, she said: “I enjoy cooking Bengali dishes and like to experiment with other cultural dishes for my family. I love to batch cook meals. I am so busy with work and looking after my family, so as long as there is a home cooked meal at the end of the day then everyone is happy.
“My biggest cooking inspiration was my late father, who was a chef and ran his own Indian restaurant in Wolverhampton for over 25 years.”
Fateha Khanom Age
Fateha Khanom was born in 1982 in Birmingham. She is 42 years old as of 2024.
Fateha Khanom Family
MasterChef contestant Fateha Khanom lives in Birmingham with her husband and two young daughters, Rowdha and Liyana.
Fateha Khanom MasterChef
Fateha Khanom, 42, is a contestant on the 20th series of MasterChef on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. She is one of the amateur chefs cooking for John Torode and Gregg Wallace in the first heat of MasterChef 2024, alongside Brin Pirathapan, Cirilo, Hope Batchelor, Matthew Pearce and Muir.
Fateha had thought about applying for MasterChef since her father died in 2011. She said: “I’ve thought about applying for MasterChef for over 10 years, after my father died in 2011. It baffled me growing up, why my father cooked Indian dishes at his restaurant and not our Bengali dishes, which are totally different in terms of flavours and use a range of fruits and vegetables unique to Bangladesh.”
She entered the competition to “showcase a different type of South Asian food and the variety of Bengali dishes out there. I also wanted to challenge myself and show what my father enjoyed eating at home, that he could not cook at his restaurant. I felt like he’ll be with me throughout this surreal and once in a lifetime experience and I’m doing this as a sort of tribute to him.”
Quizzed about her food dream, she said: “I would love to teach people how to cook from scratch using fresh, seasonal and local ingredients. I hope to write my own cookbook showcasing British Bengali dishes and I have many ideas about cross regional and fusion cooking which I have been experimenting with at home kitchen.”
Fateha Khanom Religion
She is a Muslim.
Fateha Khanom Ethnicity
Fateha Khanom is of South Asian heritage. She is originally from Bangladesh.
Nationality
She is of British nationality.
Fateha Khanom’s Instagram handle is fateha_khanom_.
