Restaurant to appear on TV’S Best Dish: The Chefs

Professional chefs from around the country will appear on the ITV show to be put through their paces in front of leading food critics.

Their challenge is to prove they have the nation’s best dish.

Prashad, a family run Indian vegetarian restaurant, is taking part in the competition and is due to appear on the programme today.

The restaurant – based in Bradford, a city which has just become the new holder of the title Curry Capital of Britain 2011 - will be represented on the latest TV venture by 29-year-old head chef Minal Patel.

She will be preparing aloo dum byriani, cooked in an authentic Indian family style.

Best Dish: The Chefs is presented by Mary Nightingale and will see professional chefs go head-to-head in a series of keenly contested cooking duels. Regional winners will go through to a grand final.

Minal’s husband Bobby Patel, 39, operations director at Prashad, said: “It’s a great experience.

“She wanted to do a dish that looted our past. It is a mixed vegetable dish cooked in traditional old school ways,” he added.