Chetna Makan: Baker, Cookbook Author and star of GBBO

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Chetna Makan.

You may remember Chetna from The Great British Bake Off Season 5 where she made it through to the semi-finals and really stood out for her exciting use of flavour, creativity with her dishes and the fact that many of these dishes were completely new to her.

She has gone on to write three cookbooks all showcasing the food of India in different and exciting ways. She has her own successful Youtube Channel “Food with Chetna” where she shares her love of cooking all inspired by Indian cuisine.

Of Indian food Chetna says:

Many people still think of Indian food as unhealthy takeaways or elaborate tedious recipes to prepare. I want to show that everyday Indian food, as I cook in my own kitchen, can be extremely delicious while being easy to prepare and healthy”.

Hope you’re all well and that you’ve had a lovely week. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! It makes such a difference and I really love reading your reviews!

This was the first episode we have recorded at my house and Chetna came over armed with Portuguese custard tarts which are the way to my heart – and we drank tea from teacups. All this to say this it was very sophisticated. We nibbled on brownies and custard tarts as we chatted with the Spring sunshine pouring through the window. (I think it’s always nice to set the scene a little isn’t it??)

Thank you so much for listening – don’t forget you can visit the website (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) for all the recipes and lots of kitchen tips and tricks and you can find me on Instagram @margienomura

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where
0:07.3	every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. These range from finding out
0:13.7	about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course,
0:19.7	the last dish they would choose to eat before
0:22.1	being cast off the Desert Island. I hope you're all well and that you've had a lovely week.
0:27.6	If you haven't yet left a five-star rating, now is your moment. It makes such a difference,
0:32.9	and I really love reading your reviews. This was the first episode we've recorded at my house.
0:39.1	Chetna came over, armed with Portuguese custard tarts, which are the way to my heart, and we drank
0:45.0	tea from teacups, very sophisticated, and nibbled on brownies and custard tarts as we chatted
0:51.7	with the spring sunshine pouring through the window. I think it's always
0:55.8	nice to set the scene a little bit, isn't it? So I hope you enjoy today's episode.
1:04.1	My guest today is Chetner Makhan. You may remember Chetna from the Great British Bake Off season
1:10.2	five, where she made it through to the semiifinals and really stood out for her exciting use of flavor, creativity and lovely personality.
1:18.9	She's gone on to write three cookbooks, all showcasing the food of India in different and exciting ways.
1:25.3	She's had her own successful YouTube channel, Food with Chetna, where she
1:28.9	shares her love of cooking, all inspired by Indian cuisine. Chetner says, many people still think of
1:35.0	Indian food as unhealthy takeaways or elaborate, tedious recipes to prepare. I want to show that
1:41.3	everyday Indian food, as I cook in my own kitchen, can be extremely delicious
1:45.8	while being easy to prepare and healthy. Welcome, Chetna. Thank you. So nice to have you on
1:52.3	Desert Island dishes. You've just published your third cookbook, which is amazing because your
1:57.4	series of bake-off was only in 2014. So that's quite a lot of books in a relatively short space of time.
2:04.1	Well, now hearing you say it like that, it seems like a short span of time.
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