Mowgli founder Nisha Katona says 'the wait is over' in exciting new update

Nisha Katona, founder of Mowgli Street Food, took to Instagram to announce a highly anticipated career update. Mowgli launched on Liverpool's Bold Street over a decade ago. What started with pennies pulled together from the back of a couch has blossomed into the UK's first national Indian restaurant chain with more than 20 locations.

On Instagram, the Mowgli founder posted: "The wait is over - Nisha Katona's Home Kitchen is finally here! Catch the first episode this Saturday at 11:40am on ITV."

The restaurant owner from Ormskirk has launched her on TV show on ITV, which will see her cooking signature delicious dishes filmed from her home in Wirral. Also on Instagram, Nisha posted about her "exciting announcement" a few weeks ago.

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She said: "Nisha Katona’s Home Kitchen starts 8 February on ITV! What a preposterous blessing to have ITV so kindly trust me with my dream cooking show. My most delicious, simplest recipes are set in the natural chaos of my Wirral farmstead with my four legged and two legged family where I celebrate everything local and life in the back yard.

"Building five restaurants last year for @mowglistreetfood while also juggling a busy home and family meant I had to choose to bid fond farewell to my life on Great British Menu and I shall miss the crew and the screaming with laughter. How wonderful to be able to step out in faith and know that as one door shuts another will open-this time onto lush green pastures."

The business established the Mowgli Trust charity back in 2017 to help local communities and groups and has since raised more than £1.8m to support children’s hospices, hospices, cancer and hospital charities.

Nisha Katona was awarded an MBE for her services to the food industry in 2019. Mowgli now has venues in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Nottingham, Sheffield, Cardiff, Leicester, Leeds, Cheshire, Cheltenham, London, Glasgow, Preston, Bristol, Edinburgh and Brighton.