Its a Flavor fest on MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites’ first episode as heritage cooking takes centre stage in the kitchen

The new season of MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites opened with a fiery round of powerful cooking that enchanted the judges with history-laden heritage cooking from across the world for the very first immunity pin challenge of season 14. As emotions ran high on the first episode, fans and favourites alike belted out flavours that overwhelmed the judges emotionally and culinarily. Previous season contestants like Christina Baptista, Sashi Cheliah, and Tommy Pham brought to the table delicacies from Portugal, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam respectively by re-creating and re-imagining thousand-year-old recipes from their roots to win over the judges. Sarah Todd recreated the fabled Rajasthani recipe, Lal Maas, introducing a new flavour and spice before the judges. Measuring up to the heat, the Fans team’s Jenn Lee created luscious Taiwanese beef noodles and stay-at-home mum Keyma Vasquez Montero made a signature Venezuelan seafood stew, both of which tingled the taste buds of the judges with new flavours and textures. The impressive cooking saw judges debate between home-style flavourful dishes vs contemporized back-to-roots dishes to ultimately hand out three MasterChef immunity pins, the third being a new addition to the regular two pins, for the top dishes created by the fans and the favorites.

About MasterChef Australia 14

Bringing together 12 previous season favourites and 12 top home chefs, MasterChef Australia’s latest season will see the 24 contestants compete for the ultimate cooking title in MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites. This season brings back the first title winner of the show Julie Goodwin along with favourites like Sashi Cheliah, Billie McKay, and others. Sarah Todd with her passion for India will recreate regional dishes from across the country to present before the judges. As new episodes release only on Disney+ Hotstar, judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen set all-new challenges for the aspiring culinary stars in the MasterChef kitchen.

Watch the judges’ reactions here: https://www.instagram.com/masterchefau/

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