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Chicken Three Ways with Curry Sauce Recipe Manisha Naidu MasterChef Ep 4 2012

Manisha Naidu curries favour with the MasterChef Judges and catapults into episode five.

Manisha Naidu, the softly spoken Johannesburg MasterChef contender, knocked the judges off their feet with her Chicken Three Ways with Curry Sauce recipe. The challenge for the MasterChef contestants was to produce a dish that emanated from their childhood memories, their “soul on a plate” Pete Goffe-Wood dramatically put it. For Manisha that meant only…

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MasterChef SA’s Lwazi Mngoma reckons cooking quail is an un-African thing to do.

MasterChef contender Lwazi Mngoma shares some of his braai knowledge. Lwazi was responsible for the braai during the Harvest Day Team Challenge on MasterChef SA. This included three very different types of produce, ostrich fillets, quail and asparagus. When it comes to the Ostrich Fillets he recommends getting the braai very hot, to around 320C…

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Hometown decision leaves Blue Team singing the MasterChef blues

Home town advantage gives Samantha Nolan’s Red Team the game in the dying seconds. In scenes reminiscent of Liverpool v Everton or Manchester United v Manchester City football matches the team in red sneaked in past the post in what turned out to be a strategic triumph for Samantha Nolan and her team crammed with…

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Samantha Nolan and the rise of The MasterChef Cape Cabal

Samantha Nolan’s team picks reveal Cape Cabal on MasterChef SA It was earlier today I was reading an article by rugby writer Gavin Rich (an old associate of GGS Ed Andrew Lieber) about the rise of a Blue Bulls Cabal in South African rugby that is reminiscent of the Cape Cabal in the days under…

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Berdina Schurink runs out of time. Leaves MasterChef SA underdone.

Berdina Schurink crashes out of MasterChef SA in unspectacular fashion with underdone Rack of Lamb. It was the second week in a row that Berdina Schurink found herself having to deal with a pressure test after presenting the judges with uncooked meringue on her tart in episode four of MasterChef SA. She easily trumped the…

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MasterChef SA Episode Five | The Pressure Test

Manisha Naidu falls short when it comes to making the tough decisions on MasterChef SA Aftter the blue team, led by Manisha Naidu lost the team challenge they had to face the pressure test. The Judges however decided that only three would participate and it was up to Manisha to decide who was going fight…

White Chicken Ginger Spring Onion Chinese Vegetables Recipe Brandon Law MasterChef 2012 ep 4 1 0

Brandon Law reprimanded by Pete Goffe-Wood on MasterChef SA

Brandon Law is found guilty by Pete Goffe-Wood of using too much raw ginger in his White Chicken recipe. The young MasterChef contender with shoulders the width of the Yangtze River has been kept pretty much in the shadows by the MasterChef producers throughout the series so far. They only let him out briefly in…