Bhubaneswar: MasterChef India is a grand cooking show that offers professional chefs and home cooks a platform to showcase their talent in cooking and helps them make a career in it.
The premiere episode saw several contestants presenting their best dish in front of India’s most celebrated chefs, Vikas Khanna, Garima Arora, and Ranveer Brar.
While several contestants impressed the judges, one contestant got a direct entry into Masterchef India’s kitchen.
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Avinash Patnaik (32) who is a Ph.D. student who specializes in Horticulture and hails from Bhubaneshwar presented his dish ‘Traditional Dessert- Gaintha Pitha’. Avinash revealed that he wanted to take agriculture and cooking to another level and hence created dishes that are a blend of both. Avinash’s dish was flavored with pandan leaves and served with coral jasmine-infused milk and Indian almonds. Most of these ingredients were grown by Avinash, and the elements added to the dish were added by edible flowers. After tasting his dish, all three judges were quite impressed with his cuisine and applauded his presentation of the dish as well. Avinash became the first contestant who got a direct entry into MasterChef India’s kitchen.
MasterChef India season 7, judged by Chefs Vikas Khanna, Garima Arora, and Ranveer Brar, will air from Monday to Friday on Sony TV and Sony LIV at 9 pm.