The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 101 delicious everyday recipes to revolutionise your gut health

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In The Kitchen Prescription, gastroenterologist Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed draws on her love of good food and her expertise in gut health to create 101 recipes that are easy to make, incredibly delicious to eat and will effortlessly keep your gut and digestion in tip-top condition. Make these adorable reindeer cookies using my buttery soft sugar cookie recipe with silky buttercream using a gingerbread cookie cutter. Hot banana peppers in oil is a blend of hot banana peppers/hot Hungarian wax peppers, jalapeño peppers, cubanelle peppers and hot chili peppers. This is a book you'll be reaching for time and again, because these recipes are a joy to eat and fuss free, and you can feel happy in the knowledge you'll be helping your body to stay healthy too.

When you are part of a strong, well-connected team, something magical happens as these special relationships translate into everyone wanting to provide the best possible care to patients. This book explores the amazing organ that is the human gut and the basic scientific concept of why we enjoy what we eat and how factors such as taste, texture and smell all add to the overall foodie experience. Gut-friendly breakfasts, immune-boosting lunches, quick family suppers and a host of simple, mostly plant-based dishes make up this colourful collection of recipes. Eating well doesn’t need to be dull food and deprivation – it should be eating a wonderfully varied, vibrant and exciting range of foods. This campaign taught me that food poverty is very real, and it affects people from all different strata of society, including our staff.With two children and a career in gastroenterology it is very difficult to open a restaurant, so I have turned to my love of writing instead! I am working as a specialist registrar in hepatology and gastroenterology, so essentially the liver, the digestive system and the bowels are my specialty.

I wrote my second book, Foodology, in 2021 and the tagline is, ‘a food lovers guide to finding digestive health and happiness’. I am a strong believer that the most powerful tool is the ability to cook as this gives people the confidence to experiment with different ingredients and recipes and to eat a varied and fulfilling diet. Combine the coriander seeds, oregano, nutmeg, garlic granules, chilli flakes, cardamom, cinnamon and black pepper in a pestle and mortar, and give the mixture a good grind to break the coriander seeds down. Add the olive oil, followed by the spice-coated chicken (you may need to add the chicken in batches as you are looking for a really deep golden crust to form on the surface, to add flavour and texture). Clothespin cookies are a flaky pastry cookie shell filled with melt in your mouth buttercream filling laced with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.

It is incredibly humbling and empowering to be the first doctor to win MasterChef because there are food related ailments that I can relate to in a way that not many other people can. I started in September 2022, however my first ever job as a junior doctor (FY1) was at St Mary’s over a decade ago. Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is a Gastroenterology Doctor, winner of MasterChef 2017 and author of Foodology and Khazana, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook of the Year 2019. Biography: Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is a Gastroenterology Doctor, winner of MasterChef 2017 and author of Foodology and Khazana, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook of the Year 2019.