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Bauli chef ambassador and winner of Masterchef Season 4 Luca Manfe’s blueberry trifle is a delicious, guilt-free dessert that can be rustled up in no time Greek yogurt provides an unique texture and flavorthat may seem indulgent, but will allow guests to snack knowing that they’re actually cutting back on the calories they’d be consuming if you’d used more traditional trifle ingredients like whipped or sour cream.
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Ingredients
- 2 slices of Bauli Pandoro, cubed
- 1 1/2 Cup blueberry Greek yogurt, such as Chobani Blueberry Greek Yogurt
- 3/4 Cups light whip cream
- 3 1/2 Cups blueberries
Now one of the world's most acclaimed chefs, GORDON RAMSAY, is giving you the opportunity to become a "MasterChef"!
"MasterChef" is a show that celebrates great people who make great food. The show will give contestants the opportunity to develop their cooking skills while being encouraged, mentored and celebrated by the industry's best!
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Started: Jul/27/2010
Usually airs on: Wednesday
Type: Reality
Genres: Food Family
Country: US
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The winner of the Mystery Box Challenge is rewarded with a significant decision going into the season's first elimination challenge, during which they will have to replicate one of Chef Ramsay's signature dishes in less than 60 minutes. In a continuation of the season premiere episode, 40 of the best home cooks in America compete head-to-head in the MASTERCHEF Battle of the Apron challenge, during which they will attempt the to earn a coveted white apron and move forward to compete for the MASTERCHEF title. The remaining home cooks must display culinary skills, as well as an immense passion for food, and be determined to out-cook their rivals and make the next round.
In the season premiere episode, 40 of the best home cooks in America travel to Los Angeles to compete in the MASTERCHEF Battle of the Apron challenge, during which they will attempt the to earn a coveted white apron and move forward to compete for the MASTERCHEF title, a cookbook deal and the $250,000 grand prize. Judging the battle rounds will be Ramsay and Tosi, who will taste for flavor, creativity and presentation. In order to move to the next round of the competition, the home cooks must display culinary skills, as well as an immense passion for food, and be determined to out-cook their rivals. In the final challenge in the MASTERCHEF kitchen, the Top Two home cooks will have one last chance to prove to the judges that they deserve the MASTERCHEF title by creating a three-course meal. After evaluating the final dishes, the judges will reveal America's next MASTERCHEF, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a MASTERCHEF trophy, a book deal and the $250,000 grand prize. In the next challenge, with a little help from a few other home cooks, the remaining three contestants will create dishes for 30 restaurant guests who serve an important role in the judges' culinary world. The home cook with the most number of votes will move on in the competition, while the remaining two home cooks will face the next pressure test, during which they must complete three classic MASTERCHEF dishes. The home cook with the best dishes will move on to the finals. The teams must create a unique appetizer and entree three times by using special ingredients the pressure test has the chefs re-creating Christina Tosi's chocolate malted layer cake.
The Top Five home cooks must create a dish using pear, blue cheese, tomato, portabella mushroom and chocolate. The remaining chefs are put into teams to take over a Los Angeles restaurant, where they have to come up with two appetizers and two entrées for dining customers. The losing team take part in a pressure test that sees them having to come up with three different pasta dishes. The cooks need to make a dish that features coffee as one of the central ingredients. The pressure test sees the contestants teaming up to re-create an elaborate party platter. The cooks split into teams to prepare vegetarian meals the pressure test has the cooks creating meals composed of cuts from an animal's head. The contestants must prepare a flambe the challenge winner selects which Southern dish the contestants will cook. The cooks prepare family-style meals for special diners the cooks create a gnocchi-in-brown-sage-butter-sauce dish for the pressure test challenge. The remaining home cooks enter the Wild West when they must cook for 101 cowboys and ranchers. The remaining home cooks must create a rice dish in 60 minutes. The chefs must taste and then attempt to re-create Gordon's signature beef Wellington. Each team has to create a two-course menu and they must also make a three-layer birthday cake. The home cooks must create an elevated breakfast dish in 45 minutes the challenge winner receives advantages that include immunity in the mystery box challenge, in which the contestants must make TV dinners. The cooks travel to Las Vegas and split into two teams to prepare food for 101 performers the better-received team is safe from the pressure test the cooks face steak challenges that measure temperature and taste. The cooks compete to prepare the best crab dish, with the winner gaining a significant advantage before the elimination the cooks create versions of dishes using corn. The teams create their own versions of an amusement park burger and a fish and chips dish for park guests the losing team faces a cinnamon roll pressure test. The contestants are faced with their first mystery box challenge that includes ingredients that could be found in the average home in a pressure test, contestants must prepare their version of an apple pie. Some of America's best home cooks present their signature dishes to the judges: Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and the newest addition to the panel, Christina Tosi. Forty of America's best home cooks present their signature dishes to the judges: Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and the newest addition to the panel, Christina Tosi. The two top chefs compete in a final pressure test and the judges choose a winner. One chef moves on to the finals after impressing a panel of judges representing all 50 states and a second finalist is determined based on a challenge involving three classic American desserts. A final team challenge establishes who moves on to the top three. Each cook creates a dish inspired by one of their loved ones after they meet with some VIP kitchen guests and all but the winner prepre rare protein dishes to stay in the game. The remaining six cooks compete in teams and take over a high-end restaurant in Los Angeles. The losing team competes individually in a unique croquembouche pressure test. The remaining contestants receive hometown encouragement as they prepare savory apple dishes while the challenge winner is safe from elimination, the other contestants form teams of two and make a variety of dim sum. The cooks split into teams of two and prepare a poultry dish using different parts of the chicken two pairs face a pressure test with eggs. The home cooks split into two teams and create menus of healthy football game concessions for an entire stadium the cooks on the losing team must create three unique prawn dishes in a pressure test. For the first time, the contestants get to choose between two mystery boxes: one filled with high-end ingredients and one containing ordinary items the winner of the challenge chooses which type of stuffed pasta the remaining cooks make. The cooks prepare romantic dinners for couples celebrating anniversaries Ramsay's wife joins him for dinner the losing team create their own truffle recipes for a box of chocolates. The cooks must create a dish using Alaskan king salmon during the elimination round, the cooks create a dish using one judge's favorite ingredients. The remaining 14 cooks work in two sets of teams at a busy, iconic diner in Los Angeles the members of the losing team must make a three-layer red velvet cake during a pressure test. The contestants must put aside their difference as they pair up to create a surf-and-turf dish the challenge losers face a pressure test featuring spring rolls. The contestants prepare a dish using canned foods MasterChef winner Luca Manfe and MasterChef Junior winner Alexander Weiss help determine what dish the contestants cook in the elimination round.
