The funeral has taken place in Bradford of the co-founder of one of Keighley’s first South Asian food restaurants.

Syeda Khanom, who set up Moghuls Restaurant with her husband Sajjad Ahmed, died of heart failure in Bradford Royal Infirmary. She was 75.

Her grandson, Ishtiaq Ahmed, said: “When she was in hospital we cooked a dish for her and she told us it wasn’t hot enough. Even on her death bed she was telling us it wasn’t quite right.”

Her son, Moghuls chef Syed Ahmed, who learned to cook from his mother, said: “She was a very loving, outgoing person. When she died I actually found myself consoling the doctor – that was the effect she had on people.”

Mrs Khanom was born in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and came to live in Bradford with her husband in 1964. The couple, who had five children, opened Moghuls in 1981.

Her husband, a former officer in the East Pakistan Army, died in 1991. His wife was responsible for many of the recipes at the family-run North Street restaurant. She also helped to raise money for renovation work at the nearby St Anne’s Catholic Church.

She was living in Fairweather Green when she died, but had previously lived in Keighley.

Her funeral service took place at the Tawakkuliah Mosque, in Bradford, and she was buried at Scholemoor Cemetery.

Syed Ahmed thanked staff at BRI for the care they gave her.