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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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Bun in the oven for Khaya Silingile as she cranks it up on MasterChef SA

A pregnant Khaya Silingile crushes the MasterChef SA opposition with her cranking skills The MasterChef SA contestants got to test their culinary talents on the spice island of Zanzibar in episode thirteen of the competition. The challenge was to prepare 50 servings of Zanzibari cuisine and set up their stall at the famous Forodhani Gardens…

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MasterChef SA Episode Thirteen Wrap

The Swahili welcome “Jambo” greeted us… because MasterChef moved to the spice island of Zanzibar this week. Located in the Indian Ocean, this island has an opulent food heritage. It seemed natural for us to explore it, no? The contestants were divided into the Red Team (Ilse, Lungi, Manisha and Khaya) and the Blue Team…

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Thys Hattingh MasterChef SA departure, a bit of a damp squid

Thys Hattingh simply fades away on episode thirteen of MasterChef SA It was a rather odd episode when one looks at the way that Thys Hattingh left the MasterChef kitchen. There did not appear to be to much drama when compared to last weeks mousse trap with Thys, this time falling for the smoke trap.…

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MasterChef SA’s Deena Naidoo crashes and then burns on the Spice Test

Deena Naidoo proved to the world once again that he is not very good at tests, particularly when it comes to spices. When the losing team from the market challenge the night before were told that they were identifying spices, Deena Naidoo must have let out a little ‘whoop whoop’ to himself as he went…

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Sue-Ann Allen on the losing team but avoids elimination challenge

Sue-Allen on the wrong end of a crushing defeat in the Forodhani Food Market Challenge. but avoids elimination test. After being crushed by the Red Team in the Forodhani Food Market Challenge Sue-Ann Allen faced up against her fellow team members in a spice identification challenge. We all knew that Deena Naidoo would be one…

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A Dutch Croquettes Recipe

Samantha Nolan stakes early claim to MasterChef title with a Dutch Croquettes Recipe with Hollandaise, Tomato Sauce and Chips. Samantha Nolan wowed not only us but the judges too with this 60 minutes masterpiece. Pete Goffe-Wood had his concerns that Samantha would not have enough time to complete her dish. He was worried that even…

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Thys Hattingh gets caught in the mousse trap on MasterChef SA

A confident Thys Hattingh only ends looking like a bit of an idiot on MasterChef SA If anyone was going to win the Passion Hazelnut Gateau challenge it had to be Thys Hattingh and he knew it too. Desserts are his game and there was no doubt in his mind that the competition, Jade de…

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MasterChef SA is a cake walk for Deena Naidoo

Deena Naidoo felt that that the world had turned against him in episode twelve of MasterChef SA Deena Naidoo had found himself facing an elimination challenge thanks to his lack of wine knowledge in episode eleven of the competition. This time he was facing another task about which he knew very little, baking. The task…