AWARD winning chef Mohammed Alkas Ali is bidding for a place in the Guinness Book of Records by cooking and serving a curry and rice to 10,000 people.

But the Internationally renowned chef needs help in the form of a pan which will hold 8,000 pints!

Mr Alkas, proprietor of The Samrat Asian Restaurant, Rawtenstall, made a monster 5ft 8in naan bread last month for National Curry Day which he has submitted for inclusion in the record book.

He said: "Tommey Miah from Edinburgh is in the book for making a curry for 5,500 people, but I want to better him.

"Making that amount of curry is easy but it is quite difficult to make rice in such quantities. I will have to ask the council to close Longholme Road next to the restaurant because it will take four or five gas cookers to cook the rice and it will take me up to four hours."

The naan bread helped raise £205 for the Save the Children Fund and the meal will raise money to help people in Mr Alkas home country Bangladesh.

He is hoping to cook the monster meal on Bangladesh Independence Day March 25. Anyone who can help is asked to contact 01706 830818 or 216183.

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