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KATY Tan took an interest in cooking when she was eight and began making meals at 10 to keep her older sister, who suffers from severe allergies, safe.

The 26-year-old, from Falkland, Fife, who will appear on Monday’s MasterChef, became aware of ingredients in food because sibling Jenny, who is three years older, has life-threatening anaphylaxis.

Katy said: “She’s allergic to diary, eggs, fish, nuts – there’s a whole range she can’t eat.

“So growing up before it was fashionable to be intolerant to things or not eat diary, and shops didn’t have a free-from range, we had to cook everything from scratch every single day.

“We weren’t able to eat out at restaurants or eat ready meals.

“I was taught to be very, very careful about what we ate in the house, and how we cooked so nothing was contaminated.

“I had to learn to cook for her and for the family very early on, which means I have an understanding of ingredients since as far as I can remember.”

Now an event production manager living in Glasgow, Katy was inspired to cook – and her signature dish in Monday’s heat will reflect this – by her Chinese dad, known by his surname, Tan.

She said: “My dad is Chinese and my mum is Scottish. I don’t speak Chinese and don’t know his side of the family that well so I have connected with my heritage through food.

“I did a lot of cooking with my dad growing up. He loved to show us how to cook Chinese food and while it wasn’t cool to be interested in cooking when you were at high school, when I went to university I liked to cook for friends and started taking it seriously.”

For the past five years, Tan has been living and working in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, as the national gymnastics coach.

He’s proud his daughter will be on MasterChef given she’s been a fan since she was a little girl.

She said: “But I don’t know how he’s going to see it.

“My signature dish is a Malaysian dish which I always eat when I go to visit him. It’s one of my favourites.

“I’ve not seen him for a while because of Covid. Fingers crossed travel restrictions will lift soon. It’s been hard not seeing him as much as we’d have liked to.”

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