A restaurant which helped secure Bradford’s title as curry capital of Britain will be in the national spotlight again when its chef appears on a top television food challenge.

Prashad, in Horton Grange Road, will be represented alongside professional chefs from across the country on the ITV show Best Dish: The Chefs.

Head chef Minal Patel, 29, will cook aloo dum byrianai – a mixed vegetable dish – for food critics John Burton Race, Jilly Goolden and Ed Baines.

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

It is the second time the restaurant has been on the small screen after making it to the final of Gordon Ramsay’s Best Restaurant last year.

That led to Minal securing an open placement to spend two days a week at any of the 11 London establishments under the celebrity chef’s banner.

Bobby Patel, Minal’s husband and operations director at Prashad, said: “It’s a great experience. Minal will be able to use her skills picked up at Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant.

“The dish itself is almost like an ode to her ancestral past. It is a mixed vegetable dish cooked in traditional old school ways.”

Minal, a former student at Bradford College, had never cooked professionally until she married Bobby, moved to England and joined his mum, Kaushy, in Prashad’s kitchen six years ago.

She will appear on Best Dish: The Chefs on ITV on Thursday, November 24.