Ammara Noman is a Pakistani chef who rose to fame after winning the competitive cooking reality television game show Master Chef Pakistan Season 1 aired on an Urdu channel.
Wiki/Biography
Ammara Noman aka Chef Ammara aka MasterChef Ammara Noman was born in 1981 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (42 years old; as of 2023). Later, her family moved to Islamabad where she completed her education.
When she was in her second year of graduation, she dropped out of college. She later took chocolate and pastry courses at the Savor Chocolate & Patisserie School in Brunswick, Australia. She is accredited with an Associate Degree in Culinary Arts in Vocational Studies by the Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′4″
Hair color: brown
Eye color: brown
family
She comes from a Muslim family.
Parents and siblings
There is not much information about her parents. She has a brother who lives in Canada.
husband and children
Her husband’s name was Numan Sheikh. The couple has a son Faizan (the eldest) and three daughters Faria, Hadiqa and Hafsa (the youngest).
Profession
player
In 2014, she participated in the competitive cooking reality television game show MasterChef Pakistan Season 1. The show airs on Urdu1. During the live cooking challenge, she presented a cold dish. She is the only contestant on the show who has never made it past the elimination rounds. On July 27, 2014, she was announced as the winner of the show. After winning, she received PKR 5 million and a cookbook contract. She also received five years of free Ariel. In an interview, when she was asked how she got inspired to become a chef, she replied:
I started watching MasterChef USA and MasterChef Australia and used to follow them religiously. While watching these shows, I can imagine myself standing at my own cooking station in the MasterChef kitchen. “
Judge
In 2022, she served as a judge on the Pakistani cooking TV show “The Kitchen Master” aired on Express TV. In 2023, an audition by a contestant of Kitchen Master went viral on various social media platforms, in which the contestant presented in front of the judges a dish that she bought from a store near her home. The contestant’s behavior was criticized by the judges.
In 2022, she served as a judge in another Pakistani cooking TV show, “Junior Chef Pakistan Season 2”, which aired on Aan TV.
Other jobs
In 2020, she worked as a chef on the YouTube cooking series Philips Healthy Kitchen.
Amara owns a bakery called Beyond Bakers in Karachi, Pakistan. She opened a restaurant called National Recipe Princess.
She has appeared in various television commercials for brands such as Dalda Kalonji Canola and Dessert Décor.
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Facts/Trivia
- In 2014, while competing on MasterChef Pakistan, Amala shared that her husband inspired her to join the show. She said he was the one who filled out the show registration form on her behalf.
- In 2021, she organized a live cooking class on the Skillston Institute’s Facebook page.
- Amala Noman follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- In 2022, she won the Culinary of the Year Award.
- In her spare time, she likes to listen to sufiyana kalam.
- She revealed in an interview that her signature dish is the six-layer chocolate dessert.
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