recipe photograph HANNAH TAYLOR-EDDINGTON
As well as being a regular guest on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is an NHS gastroenterologist, winner of BBC One’s MasterChef in 2017, and has three cookbooks to her name, including Khazana, which explores Indo-Persian cuisine and her travels through India, and her latest, The Kitchen Prescription, in which she combines her career as a doctor with her love of food to help people improve their gut health. She also started a campaign called No Hungry Staff to provide NHS staff with hot food 24/7. Here, Saliha shares the story behind one of her favourite recipes – lamb & pea samosas.