{"id":8611,"date":"2022-07-06T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/ashasrestaurants\/news\/uncategorized\/flavours-of-ramadan-2017-competition-winners-cook-with-asha\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:31:47","slug":"flavours-ramadan-2017-competition-winners-cook-asha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/flavours-ramadan-2017-competition-winners-cook-asha\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavours of Ramadan 2017 competition winners cook with Asha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen amateur cooks from across the region had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and cook alongside Asha Bhosle as winners of Sony TV\u2019s 2017 Flavours of Ramadan<\/a> competition<\/em><\/p>\n

It may be a wrap for the fifth season of Sony TV\u2019s popular Flavours of Ramadan show, but 15 aspiring foodies and cooks from the Gulf recently had the opportunity to spend a day with Asha Bhosle as winners of a unique online competition organised by Asha\u2019s Restaurants group.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s series, which was watched by more than three million people across the GCC, Middle East, North Africa and beyond, marked another first for the legendary singer and self-taught chef, and was Asha\u2019s first live on-camera cooking showcase.<\/p>\n

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International foodie following<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Organised by Asha\u2019s Restaurants, the first global Indian restaurant chain, the online competition ran in tandem with the month-long cooking show. Thousands of entries were received from around the world, with the show broadcast as far afield as the UK, USA and Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had an unprecedented response to the competition, and received thousands of entries from people of all ages and backgrounds, with our youngest winner aged just 11 years. The excitement from the group was incredible and they were so appreciative of the opportunity that they even sang for Asha as she entered the room to start the master class,\u201d says Sue Potter, managing director, Asha\u2019s Restaurants.<\/p>\n

In the kitchen with Asha<\/h6>\n

The 15 lucky winners, who were selected via a random draw, enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip to the original Asha\u2019s in Dubai including airfare, limousine transfers, hotel accommodation and goody bag including a personalised chef\u2019s jacket, selection of Asha\u2019s own brand spice mixes and pickles and autographed pictures.<\/p>\n

They also got to meet Asha\u2019s top chefs including Ashwani Rangta, Gaurav Mathur and Navin Chauhan, along with acclaimed international mixologist, Brandon Grusd, who shared a selection of mocktails from the newly launched menu.<\/p>\n

But the obvious highlight of the trip was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet Asha in person \u2013 and cook with her.<\/p>\n

The mood turned slightly more serious as the day unfolded, with winners divided in four groups and tasked with recreating some of Asha\u2019s personal favourite dishes such as chicken keema and chingli chaap, with Asha judging each team\u2019s performance and awarding spot prizes of restaurant dining vouchers.<\/p>\n

The experience wrapped on a gourmet note with a red carpet welcome and lavish lunch of North-West Indian signature dishes at the original Asha\u2019s Dubai.<\/p>\n

\"Flavours<\/a><\/h6>\n
Meet our winners<\/h6>\n

Both Sony TV and Gulf News were on hand to record the experience, with Gulf News\u2019 Facebook page<\/a> post already receiving more than 67,000 views.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our 2017 Flavours of Ramadan competition winners:<\/p>\n

1) Aisha Ali Khameis
\n2) Bhakti Ganpate
\n3) Karen Visser
\n4) Dr Fatima Alvi
\n5) Arwa Mohammed
\n6) Asra Yasin
\n7) Annu Chouraria
\n8) Hannah Joji
\n9) Hema Shetty
\n10) Geetha Mohan
\n11) Farhat Siddiqui
\n12) Debjani Choudhury
\n13) Manpreet Kaur
\n14) Ritu Sisodia
\n15) Sabina<\/p>\n

To find out more, check out the video and images from the master class on our Facebook<\/a> page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen amateur cooks from across the region had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and cook alongside Asha Bhosle as winners of Sony TV\u2019s 2017 Flavours of Ramadan competition It may be a wrap for the fifth season of Sony TV\u2019s popular Flavours of Ramadan show, but 15 aspiring foodies and cooks from the Gulf recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-dubai","category-gcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9224,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/9224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashasrestaurants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}