Masterchef Australia Recipes Curry

We’ve seen a number of divine dishes featured on MasterChef Australia recently, but this one had us immediately racing to find out exactly how it was created.

2. For the Curry Sauce, wash the carrots and juice them along with the turmeric. Reserve ½ cup juice for the Charred Carrots and 1 cup pulp. Place the remaining juice in a small saucepan over a medium heat and simmer to reduce slightly.

3. Place the ghee into a medium frypan over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and ginger and sauté until softened and browned.

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4. Add garam masala, coriander seeds, chilli and chilli powder. Cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Add the coconut cream and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and process with a stick blender until completely smooth. Pass through a fine sieve, season to taste and keep warm until serving.

6. Place the ghee in a large frying pan and place over a medium high heat. Add the carrots, garam masala and a pinch of salt to the pan and cook, shaking the pan occasionally, until tender, about 4 minutes. Add the reserved carrot juice and cover with a lid. Cook until just tender, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer the carrots directly onto a very hot hibachi or grill pan and char all over. Transfer to a plate and cover loosely with foil.

7. For the Carrot Pangrattato, place two sheets of paper towel over a ceramic plate, sprinkle carrot pulp evenly across. Place into the microwave and cook in 20 second bursts for roughly 1 – 1 ½ minutes, until partially dry.

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8. Place a fine sieve over a small saucepan and set aside. Heat oil in a frypan. Add the dried carrot pulp, swirl the pan around and allow the carrot to slowly brown, taking care as the oil may spit. Once the carrots have just started to brown, pour through the sieve set over the saucepan. Spread the browned carrot pulp over paper towel to remove excess oil.

9. Return the saucepan of oil to a medium heat. Add the curry leaves and cook until just crisp, about 30 seconds. Remove curry leaves and allow to drain on paper towel. Once the carrot and curry leaves are cool, combine in a small bowl with a generous pinch of salt and reserve until ready to serve. Reserve the oil.

11. For the Temper, return the cooking oil to a medium heat. Once hot, add spices and cook for 30 seconds, the spices should start popping and release their aromas. Pour the oil and spices into a heatproof bowl to avoid burning. Reserve until ready to serve.

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12. To serve, cut the charred carrots into 1.5cm rounds and place in a circular shape in 4 shallow serving bowls. Cover the carrots with a generous amount of curry sauce. Spoon a tablespoon of temper over the curry sauce. Dot the yoghurt over each dish, sprinkle generously with pangrattato. Finish with some coriander leaves and lime cheeks.

Shop a selection of the innovative cooking appliances featured on MasterChef Australia, both online and at your local Harvey Norman store. One of those innovations, featured on this episode, is Breville the Big Squeeze Juicer – an appliance that comes with our highest recommendation.As the 14th season of MasterChef Australia draws to a close, Indian food has once again taken centre stage in the popular cooking series.

The season's runner-up, Sarah Todd, presented amazing Indian dishes, including a pork vindaloo - a pungent and spicy dish from the coastal state of Goa.

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MasterChef Australia is one of the most popular TV shows in India and the constant presence of cooks who are Indian-origin or share a connection to the country has only helped its popularity - it is a bigger hit in the country than the show's Indian version.

Over the years, contestants have wowed the judges with Indian dishes which are often traditional but sometimes come with a modern twist.

Rishi Desai, who finished fourth in Season 5 of the show in 2013, impressed the judges with his take on the palak paneer - a dish that has a thick spinach-and-cream gravy with heaps of cottage cheese.

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Indian food doesn't need introduction in most parts of the world. But the show's Indian contestants have showcased the inexhaustible variety and range of flavours it offers.

MasterChef Australia has taken the western world beyond butter chicken and naan to more and different Indian food and ingredient experiences, Sandeep Pandit, who contested in Season 11, says.

Mr Pandit has taken ideas from all over India to create recipes that, although are rooted in tradition, come with a unique modern twang - the most famous being his lobster masala.

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I always knew that even if I cook one Indian dish in every round that I have, I'll still never be able to showcase it all, he says.

MasterChef is also known for spotlighting the exquisite ways food can look amazing on TV and has encouraged contestants to push the boundaries when it comes to presentation and ways to make dining a sophisticated experience.

That has raised a question: can Indian food compete in the fine-dining space with other cuisines like Italian and French? Or should it retain its unique nature, which is sometimes described as rustic?

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Does fine-dining mean stylish food served in small portions, with a hero ingredient and multiple elements complementing it, or the cuisine from the royal kitchens and tables from nobility across the world? In any case Indian food fits the scene, Mr Pandit says.

That's because Indians underestimate our home food even though it's so powerful and the flavours are second to none, says the 30-year-old who wooed judges with dishes such as smoked lassi and kadhai paneer.

Ms Chhibber says the limitations posed on Indian food are created by us: There is so much you can do with Indian flavours.

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There was a time when all dishes ended up being lumped together under one name - curry - which was then dismissed as too spicy or too smelly, something that was devoid of any artistic possibilities.

But over the years, Indian chefs have dug deeper into old-age recipes and techniques and reinvented them into a unique fine-dining idiom.

Gaggan Anand, arguably one of India's most famous chefs, says the assumption that Indian food cannot be a contender for fine-dining is a fatuous misconception at best.

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We shouldn't even ask this - I have proved that Indian food can be fine dine, Mr Anand says with characteristic swagger.

Indeed, his eclectic style - imbibing modern influences and funky aesthetics but deeply anchored by the culture he grew up in Kolkata city - has turned his restaurant in Bangkok into the holy grail of fusion food and turned Mr Anand himself into a stuff of legend, a food god.

Food travellers from every corner of the globe descend upon his restaurant - which was ranked fourth on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2019 - to experience dishes that defy conventional categorisation but are an aesthetic triumph. The most famous of these is called yogurt explosion, a ball of yogurt held together by a layer of gelatine that explodes in your mouth into a medley of flavours.

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He blames the lack of creativity among those who are in positions of power in India's food industry, but is quick to add that chefs who try to be innovative also find it difficult to survive.

Even if there are chefs coming who have an artistic bend of mind, it's that much harder for them to break through this whole capital system, Mr Anand says.

The entire culture, he adds, has to change. It's not about presenting Indian food dressed as European but harnessing the rich heritage of our culture into putting out elegant plates of food, he says.

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Mr Pandit feels that Indian chefs constantly seem to be battling the misconception that their food lacks nuance, when actually, the cuisine is a universe in itself.

We Indians love to stretch the boundaries of what's possible in food, he says. The way we've incorporated chillies, tomatoes, cheese, chocolate, tea into our cooking, and the way our spices such as ginger, turmeric, cardamom and other intensifiers, have contributed to world cuisine, is a case study in itself.

At the same time, Indians can make any culture's food uniquely their own, like they did with Indian-Chinese. Sold in both plush restaurants and roadside stalls, the cuisine employs Chinese techniques, but often has ingredients associated with Indian curries.

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This love to recreate something existing into something just as incredible, has been the true essence of Indian cuisine, Mr Dixit says.

There have been instances when I couldn't serve Indian food, for example, in the Italian team challenge where I had to make a light dessert to go with the pasta dishes we created for entrée and mains, she says.

Besides, sometimes the judges just want to see if the contestants can go beyond their comfort zone. And for me that zone is Indian food, says Ms Chhibber.

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Indian food is such a huge part of my life and my family's history so to be able