Amninder Sandhu

National Award Winner- Best Lady Chef of India

Chef Amninder Sandhu is born in a Sikh family in Jorhat (Assam).She completed her basic schooling from prominent Hemalata Handique Memorial Institute (HHMI) School, the first English medium school in Jorhat. She is B.Sc. graduate in (life Sciences) from prestigious Sophia College at Pedder Road in Mumbai. She studied three years of culinary arts and kitchen administration at Institute of hotel management, Aurangabad in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield (U.K). She has also done her masters certification with the knights bridge PME School of cake decoration (U.K)

Chef Amninder Sandhu embarked on her journey with Taj Lands End in 2005 as the Senior Chef-de-partie at Masala Bay. Having extensively trained and specialized in Indian cuisine across a number of Taj kitchens in India, Chef Sandhu has been instrumental in capturing the intricacies and nuances attached with ethnic Indian cuisine. Her unique style and her keen sense for authentic Indian tastes translate onto the plate at Masala Bay, through a mélange of flavours which resonate with the essence of the cuisine. Right from her role as chef-de-cuisine where she was required to grow ingredients due to their unavailability, to managing four restaurants as the corporate chef, to setting up cafe outlets in various parts of the city at the age of 35, Amninder has done it all.

Amninder loves challenges and believes in overcoming all odds.

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 Achieving against the odds