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Aanal KotakCelebrity Chef & Entrepreneur

On screen, on stage, on the shelf.

A celebrity chef on Colors Gujarati since 2012 and a guest chef on MasterChef India. Invite her for television, keynotes, brand partnerships and live cooking, in Gujarati, Hindi or English.

Chef Aanal Kotak in her embroidered red chef coat

The studio kitchen is home ground.

Crowned Gujarat’s youngest chef on Rasoi Show in 2011, she has cooked on Colors Gujarati ever since, and took a station on MasterChef India in 2023. Broadcasters get a chef who is at ease on camera, live or on set.

Aanal on the Rasoi Show set at Colors Gujarati, holding a plated dish in front of the show's glowing logo
Colors Gujarati
Chef Aanal KotakThe Rasoi Show
Aanal Kotak on the MasterChef India set with judges Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Arora, each holding her cookbook
MasterChef India · Sony TV
With the judgesVikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar, Garima Arora
Aanal holding the Rasoi Show 4,000-episodes trophy in front of the show's logo
Colors Gujarati
Rasoi ShowThe 4,000-episodes celebration
Aanal with fellow super chefs on the MasterChef India Season 7 set
MasterChef India · Sony TV
The super chefsSeason 7, with fellow guest chefs
  1. 2012 – nowColors GujaratiRasoi ShowCelebrity chef, a regular on the showCrowned Gujarat’s youngest chef in the Rasoi ni Maharani finale (October 2011), on the show since February 2012. The channel was ETV Gujarati until 2015.
  2. 2023Sony TV · SonyLIVMasterChef India, Season 7Guest chef, Holi specialCooking alongside judges Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Arora.
  3. 2025TEDxIIT GandhinagarSpeaker, “From Passion to Power”
  4. 2026WGN-TVChicagoFeatured on the TSK USA launch
  5. 2023Curly TalesStories from BharatFeatured, “Gujarat’s youngest celebrity chef”
  6. 2017 – 2023Web seriesEat Street · The Foodies · Kitchen Magician · Maa Ki RasoiChef

Broadcast clips and high-resolution stills go out with the press kit.

Four talks, one voice.

  • From Passion to PowerHer TEDx talk: the 12-year-old who cooked for fifty, the career every woman is told has an expiry date, and why passion needs power to grow.
  • Building a food brand across bordersFrom one Vadodara kitchen to Sydney, Toronto and Chicago: franchising, export paperwork and keeping one taste in four countries.
  • Gujarati food, reintroducedWhy Gujarati food isn’t only sweet, the forgotten recipes of havelis and home kitchens, and the GI-tagged ingredients of Bharat.
  • Women, work and self-respectSwabhiman Abhiyan, kitchens run by women, and the founder whose children are her biggest support system.
“Passion helps you create, but power helps you elevate. Garnish your dreams.”

TEDx IIT Gandhinagar, 2025

Stages, rooms and shelves.

  • Aanal speaking into a microphone at a corporate event
    Corporate keynotes
  • Aanal at the NRAI Food Delivery Summit 2026 press conference
    Chapter Head, NRAI Ahmedabad: Food Delivery Summit press conference, 2026
  • Aanal beside a wall of framed press features at TSK Chicago
    The press wall at TSK Chicago, 2026
  • Aanal holding her cookbook, Secrets of a Professional Kitchen
    Author, Secrets of a Professional Kitchen

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  • MASTERCHEF INDIAGUEST CHEF, SEASON 7 (SONY…2023
  • COLORS GUJARATICELEBRITY CHEF, RASOI SHOW2012–
  • TEDX IIT GANDHINAGAR“FROM PASSION TO POWER”2025
  • NRAI AHMEDABADCHAPTER HEAD2025–
  • SECRETS OF A PROFESSIO…COOKBOOK, FOREWORD BY VIKA…2022
  • ENTREPRENEUR INDIA35 UNDER 352024
  • RESTAURANT INDIAWOMAN CHEF OF THE YEAR2021
  • INDIAN RESTAURANT CONG…BEST CHEF-LED RESTAURANT, …2019

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