{"id":22011,"date":"2019-01-16T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=22011"},"modified":"2019-01-21T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:24:54","slug":"chef-maneet-chauhan-cooking-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/chef-maneet-chauhan-cooking-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American Chef Maneet Chauhan Shares How Indian Food Suits American Palate in a New TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the booming of Indian populace in the United States from 12,000 in 1960 to 4 million in 2018, Indian food has undergone a series of twists and tweaks to suit the American palate.<\/strong> Such amazing culinary mush-ups as lassi flavored with winter squash, yogurt marinated fried chicken, chicken wings in chickpea crust, dosa wrapped around apple wood-smoked bacon and topped with fried chutneys, jiggery-glazed apple pie, gulab jamun cheesecake, and kulcha flatbreads with pastrami have resulted from Indian American chefs\u2019 ceaseless experimentation with fresh spins on traditional recipes they grew up with in India.<\/p>\n This is the theme of Indian American celebrity Chef Maneet Chauhan\u2019s latest cooking show on TV Asia, a popular channel for the Indian community in North America. Premiered on January 9, 2019, TV Asia\u2019s \u2018Festive Cooking with Maneet\u2019 is a 10-month-long program. A James Beard Award of Excellence winner, Chef Maneet Chauhan from New York<\/span><\/a> will be unraveling how some of the most traditional South Asian festive dishes rhyme with American taste buds, on the show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The \u201cFestive Cooking with Maneet<\/a>\u201d show on TV Asia will walk viewers through the changing world of South Indian cooking to show how the South Asian communities have adapted to the ways of life in America<\/strong> over the decades. Sankranti, Holi, Baisakhi, Eid, Navratri, Diwali and the Fourth of July are some of the popular occasions, the culinary significance of which will be covered on the show. In addition, Chef Maneet Chauhan herself will be seen recreating some of her favorite Indian recipes and celebrating her umbilical connection with them on the show.<\/p>\n Born in Ludhiana, Punjab, Maneet Chauhan is a versatile chef, a celebrated cookbook author, an eminent TV personality and an active philanthropist.<\/strong> Her journey from India to USA, from Manipal\u2019s Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Administration to the Culinary Institute of America, from an executive chef to an entrepreneur, from the panel of judges for the Food Network\u2019s show \u2018Chopped\u2019 to the Obamas\u2019 Annual Easter Egg Roll Hunt at the White House is truly an inspirational one.<\/p>\n Also Check: Interesting Stories about Dosa from USA to India<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n After a short stint as an apprentice chef with leading 5-star hospitality groups like the Taj in India, Chef Maneet Chauhan shifted to New Jersey<\/span><\/a><\/strong> where she joined a startup restaurant in Cherry Hill and helmed the restaurant\u2019s expansion from 70 seats to 140 seats. When she was 27, she was appointed the opening executive chef for a team of 40 male chefs at Vermillion restaurant in Chicago. The way she helmed the restaurant\u2019 kitchens and the execution of the Indian-Latin cuisine earned Vermillion multiple accolades and awards, including Wine Enthusiast\u2019s Best New Restaurant in the US, and Chicago Magazine’s Best New Restaurant.<\/p>\n Indian American Chef Maneet Chauhan gave her best at Vermillion restaurant in New York City too. It was then that Time Out Magazine nominated her as the \u2018Best Import to New York.\u2019\u00a0Singapore is her favorite food city for offering a perfect balance of delicious street food from India, Thailand, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, as she told Food Network during an interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n After 8 years of experience in heading the teams at Vermillion in Chicago<\/span><\/a> and New York, she ventured out as a business woman<\/strong> with entrepreneurial foray into the hospitality industry. She founded Indie Culinaire. Chauhan Alle and Masala House in Nashville, Tennessee is her own restaurant which accommodates 150 guests at a time.<\/p>\n The distinction of being the only Indian female contestant in Iron Chef and The Next Iron Chef brought her the opportunity to teach the global audience how to cook Indian food on ABC\u2019s The View. On top of that, she was designated as the leading chef for the high and mighty at Indiaspora\u2019s Inaugural Ball in honor of Barack Obama\u2019s re-election as US President.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n