In yesterday's double trouble challenge,
Faisu and Nikki's team had to use Chef Vikas and Chef Ranveer's
ingredients to make two dishes.
What are you doing?
Pandan cake with pandan ice cream.
We're soaking the corn, grinding it and making a tikki out of it.
Farah Khan's third ingredient tripled the double trouble.
Oh!
Tonight we'll see whether Faisu and Nikki's team
will complete all three dishes on time.
Look how hard it is. It's overcooked!
I've done my dishes. She can make her own.
Are you mad?
[tense music]
Welcome to Celebrity MasterChef.
Rajiv did help us in the kitchen but it didn't help us
as a team during the challenge.
He chopped some things. He added salt to the dip.
He added peri peri powder. But it wasn't worth much.
Because our dish wasn't complete yet.
Ayesha, what happened to the prawns?
We're making butter garlic prawns and Usha Tai is
preparing them with salt.
We're going to try to make an open butterfly prawns by presenting them
as such and then
- we will add moilee sauce. - Moilee sauce.
Any saut*ed vegetables?
We have a corn salad.
We have rib-shaped corn tikkis.
And we have these sauces.
And we're thinking of making a drink with this.
Because that broth is quite tasty.
We're wondering how to make it taste better.
It's easy. In India, if you want to make anything taste better,
make it sweet and sour and tangy.
I added everything to the kebabs, added the flour,
that's when Ranveer sir came and asked me what I was doing.
Have you ever seen black corn before?
No.
Did you taste it?
No, I just made that.
Check the salt.
Is it bad?
He just did this and left.
What happened?
Don't do that! Don't do that!
I felt so bad, I grabbed his arm.
I told him to tell me how it tastes.
I would've lost face in front of everyone.
He said don't tell anyone
but it's good.
I got so happy.
- The sushi rice. - Rajiv, I have good news for you.
- What? - There won't be any more swaps.
That means you'll be the ones to finish the challenge.
- Oh! - Oh, no, please!
- It's okay. - I'm joking.
Thank God!
Why are you saying that? I thought you'd be happy.
- No. - You wanted to do everything.
No, I didn't say that. I've done my dishes. She can make hers.
Which is the one team member
you are unhappy about?
Can I be honest? Nikki.
- Nikki. - Yeah.
Look, Teju is working.
Kabita made her ice cream. I can't say anything to Abhijeet.
Nikki's not to blame.
- I made the whole cake! - She's just a bit slow.
In the last challenge, your weakest team member
was Kabita. And now it's Nikki.
No, she's not weak. She's slow.
A bit slow. She's a good captain.
But she needs to hurry up.
- Shall I say some thing? - Yes.
You also need to hurry up. You're way behind.
I know, sir. I know.
I'm making the rice.
Along with that, I'm checking the corn.
Rajiv is asking me how to remove its kernels.
- What should we do with this? - Huh?
Remove it from the cob.
- Remove it from the cob. - What?
And I'm telling him how to do it.
At this point, I don't know what to do.
But I am focusing on my dish.
I quickly marinate the prawns.
Then I start cutting
red, yellow and green capsicum with the corn.
I dressed it with olive oil
and lemongrass and made a salad so that
there's a pop of colour.
Rajiv, which chillies did they ask you to get?
Jalape*o.
Which one did you get?
You cut it and added it already?
Yes, jalape*o.
Oh!
You got Bhavnagri chilli. Jalape*os were behind it.
And you cut it and added it?
It's okay. I tasted it. No one's going to die. Don't worry.
- You should worry about your thecha. - My God!
Do not add Bhavnagri chilli to my salsa!
Oh my God!
This guy is a foreigner.
Doesn't he know jalape*o?
And he got Bhavnagri chilli?
- This is jalape*o. - Okay.
This is our Indian chilli.
You brought this and added this, thinking it is jalape*o.
I'll only say, God is great.
He ruined our dish.
I showed you the chillies, Nikki. I showed you.
- You said it was correct. - Alright, keep cooking.
- Get to work. - Don't waste time now.
Don't shout at me.
Absolute zero work, a whole lot of words.
"Rajiv, what have you done?"
What do you mean? Are you blind? I showed you!
I asked you and you said it's correct.
Why didn't you say anything then?
[dramatic music]
What are you making?
- Wait a minute. - Tai!
Don't cook the prawns yet.
- I didn't. - No, she has marinated them.
Did you add salt to it?
I've added a pinch. Ask her to taste it now.
Celebrity cooks, last ten minutes.
And stop, cooks!
- Captains, ready for swap? - Yes!
Faisu, who are you sending?
Archana and I. And Nikki?
Kabita and I.
On the count of three, two, one.
- Swap! - Swap!
- Go! - The corn isn't ready, nor is that.
Corn isn't cooked.
Usha Tai, get out.
Don't burn it. Turn it on all sides.
[tense music]
Do we shallow fry or deep fry
- the tikki? Quickly, tell me! - Deep fry!
I quickly bring Kabita into the kitchen
and I asked her to start making the tikkis.
Spoon! Spoon!
Be careful. Don't spill anything at the last minute.
It will burn!
- It'll be fine. - Be calm.
Archana, look at it!
[tense music]
Archana, keep an eye on that.
[sizzles]
Tai, I am cooking it
on low flame so that it cooks better.
I just wanted
to put on some ear plugs.
The noise was irritating me so much!
I got my cake out of the oven
and then I started
to finish the process of making it.
Yes, nice.
- It's cold now. It'll cut well. - Nice.
- Very nice. - It's completely cold.
Look at Faisu. It seems like this person
who's cutting the cake with such precision,
doing everything and being confident
that he will complete all his dishes
is the same person who walked into this kitchen two weeks ago.
Woah!
- What's the flavour in this? - Caramel, sir.
Faisu, you know you can add flavour to the caramel while cooking it.
You can add a pinch of salt or ginger.
It also has nutritional value.
It enhances the taste of the caramel sauce.
Thank you.
Teju, tell me what should I do next?
Don't touch it. Add flour it to it first.
- Add flour to this? - Yes.
I don't have to mix this?
It does not have enough flour. Add more.
Yes. One spoon of chilli powder.
The prawns for my dish haven't been fried yet.
The rice has just boiled.
Neither Nikki nor Kabita know how to place the rice.
Because they have never made sushi before.
If there's one person who has to prove themselves today is Teju.
Because her dishes have been in the bottom recently.
Which basket are your breadcrumbs in?
In the basket with the flour.
Right. In that one.
Faisu, did you bring cheese?
Faisu, cheese?
Why is finding cheese for prawns?
Can we start cooking the prawns?
Not even started.
She does as she pleases.
Why aren't you cooking the prawns?
- I am. - Start the prawns.
Archana is cooking prawns on the other side.
Because she is good with prawns. She has preheat the oven for baking.
She put some cheese and marination on it.
Ayesha had already marinated it.
And with that our prawns go into the oven.
[dramatic music]
- Faisu. - Yes?
My dear,
Usha Tai is yelling at her to keep an eye on the tikkis.
She doesn't want them to burn.
After hearing that I see that Archana is not even looking.
So I run to her tikkis.
I fried her tikkis.
Nikki, you're the captain.
Where are you with the cooking?
All our elements are done. We are just adding finishing touches.
The last detailing.
We have managed everything. Our corn hadn't even cooked.
- Then we made corn tikkis. - Right.
Our dip wasn't ready. Rajiv had used a different chilli.
We're setting up everything.
I don't know how to cook the prawns for sushi.
Even I don't think your sushi will be ready.
But anyway,
Sushi won't be ready. Shall I change the plan?
Maybe he's saying that because the prawns haven't been fried yet.
You should fry that fast
if you want your sushi to be done in time.
- The prawns need to rest. - Why? What happened?
The oil is ready.
- Remember, - Tell me, Teju.
Put them in.
- Like this? - Yes.
You don't have much time.
Straighten it.
- This one too? - Straight.
- It's a long stick. It won't go in. - It won't.
Let's break the stick.
If we can't do it, then let me do this my way.
- Why are you stuck on the sushi? - Alright, fine.
If you fry the prawn normally, it will shrink into a circle.
I needed the prawn straight for the sushi.
That's why, I tell her to fry it with the stick inside it.
She keeps saying she can't do it.
Archana! What is this?
You left the prawn on a hot pan.
It's cooking.
Look how hard it is. It's overcooked.
[tense music]
You need to find a plan B and you don't have much time.
My mind stops working once I hear that.
Because we only had three prawns.
We put one to bake. One was for backup
and the last one has turned to rubber.
I got scared that
because I didn't want to ruin
this surprise element which is Farah ma'am's favourite dish.
- Okay. - Sir, what do I do now?
Do it again. You cannot use that!
Okay. Sorry.
[dramatic music]
We already have so many tikkis. Why are you making more?
- I don't understand. - That's what I am saying.
It's enough, Kabita. Please come here.
- The earlier ones were too dark. - Okay.
It's still raw.
[tense music]
[scoffing]
Double fry it. It's still very raw.
- Can we reduce the flame? - Lower the gas.
The prawn will only cook on the outside.
The prawns are still raw.
That's what I am saying.
- I reduced it. - Yes, put it in.
Wait a second, let me talk. Please.
She fried it on high heat, which is why it's not cooked on the inside.
You only have to fry prawns. What's so difficult about that?
Because at this point, I feel that Nikki had everyone work on her dish.
She had everyone do the chopping.
Abhijeet also worked on her dish.
Even Rajiv was working on her dish.
I only asked Nikki for one thing. To fry my prawns.
Look at what sir is doing.
That's what I've been telling her to do.
Finally, Chef Ranveer puts the sticks in our prawns
and gives it to Nikki.
Hurry up, Nikki.
Nikki, she's frying it. You set up the rice.
Both of you don't need to do the frying.
- Is it this or that? - No, sir. It's this one.
- What was that? - That was plan B.
- Alright, it's almost done. - Okay.
[dramatic music]
Whenever you make sushi, you season the rice.
A little salt, sugar, and vinegar, or even sushi vinegar.
- Yes. - Okay?
I am very worried because I am the captain.
If we lose, I will be blamed.
If we win, still...
You know, it's all team effort.
But there are no team efforts here.
What are they doing?
Keep it straight!
If this sushi is done today, I'll be the President of America tomorrow.
Let it be. We'll serve koliwada.
- Let it be. - Let's serve koliwada.
No, why should I?
- He said it. - You want to try?
Celebrity cooks, an important announcement.
Today will be known as the most chaotic day in MasterChef history.
- Never before have we seen such chaos. - Never.
And so much chaos has already happened,
but you have just enough time to handle it.
Less chaos, more cooking.
Alright. Stop, cooks.
Captains, decide who will enter.
Last and final swap.
- I can do the sushi in 2 minutes. - You and I will go in.
- Nikki, who's coming in? - Abhijeet and Tejasswi.
I think Tejasswi
and Abhijeet should come in now.
Because Abhijeet needs to focus on the plating and
Tejasswi will have to focus
on the sushi that is yet to be made.
Gaurav and Ayesha.
Okay. On the count of three, two, one. Swap!
- Come on! - Please go! What do you need?
- Archana. - I have made the chutney.
Faisu, do one thing. Keep this inside.
Pour it nicely.
- Alright, not too much. - Not too much.
Faisu has already done the icing of the cake with chocolate.
The cake is dry and is in the fridge.
I don't have much of the stuff.
We had to make a couple of things
which couldn't go into the fridge earlier.
Not the sauce. We already have too many sauces.
We don't have to do much.
Put it in some flour
and some butter. It'll cook in it.
As soon as I go, I finish the salad.
I get the meen moilee out.
The prawns are ready and out.
I start the plating but we don't have much time.
We have less than five minutes to make three dishes.
Come here. Why didn't she choose you for the last swap?
Because she wanted Abhijeet and his chaos.
Ma'am, whenever I went, I completed the cake,
I've helped with everything in the kitchen.
I make sushi at my house every week.
Nikki, Rajiv knows how to make sushi.
No. Tejasswi knows how to make it. I believe in her more.
And Abhijeet knows how to plate
my savoury dish. Not Rajiv.
Alright, all the best. I hope
- you made the right decision. - Hopefully.
Start the plating quickly.
We don't have much time
so we have to start plating right away.
And our sushi isn't ready yet.
- Is this one cooked? - Teju, cut into it and check.
Teju!
- This one is cooked, right? - Cut and check.
- The bigger one is cooked. - I'm doing that.
- The bigger one. - Is any one of this cooked?
They are cooked but please taste it.
Taste it.
It's a big piece. It takes time to cook.
That's why I was saying.
I don't know how my prawns are going to taste,
how the rice is going to taste.
Because in today's challenge, I only made the garlic chutney.
Celebrity cooks, stop!
You have one minute more.
That is it.
- Start plating. - Come on.
Start plating.
Just keep the prawns as they are.
Tell me which plate do you want.
- Any plate. - No.
Get me the salad from inside the fridge!
Where are the plates?
- At least get them the plates. - Scissor!
Start plating!
Let her focus.
Careful, Tejasswi. Focus.
Press.
And the susha is ready.
As soon as I try to cut the last piece,
I realise that we did not cut the skin of the tail
after we marinated the prawns. That's why it wouldn't cut.
Then I start cutting from the front side.
Use your hand, Gaurav.
The way the cake has set, when I try to remove it,
Chef Ranveer tells me from the side
that the chocolate has frozen on the stand. I will have to cut it.
Careful, Gaurav.
Careful.
Careful. It's still on one side near your finger.
Yes.
Careful, bro.
I really want the sushi to go on the plate today.
The sushi is quite thick because of the extra rice.
She has to cut it. Teju, cut it.
- Oh, Teju! - Oh God!
He said...
What did I say?
It's okay.
Since it was breaking apart, I try to cut it with the plastic.
As I cut it with the plastic,
the sushi turns out perfectly.
- Tejasswi. - Yes.
Are you serving us sushi or toffee?
- No, no, no, no! I forgot! - This...
Who will eat this wrapper?
Thank you, thank you!
I forgot, I forgot!
I was trying to do it quickly.
And I managed to do my best.
I plated the dish and served it.
They haven't plated the dessert yet.
Team Green hasn't even started plating the dessert yet.
- How will we plate it? - Plate the dessert!
Here you go, Abhijeet! Take this!
- Ice cream! - Serve the ice cream!
- Ice cream! - Add the crumble.
Here's the cake. Take it.
I could not cut the cake improperly.
I sliced it properly.
We were working hastily.
Alright!
Last ten seconds!
Come on, come on! Fast, fast, fast!
- Ten! - Ten!
- Teju, take it. - Here you go, Teju!
- Nine. - Nine.
Just plate it, anyhow. It should be tasted.
Plate it. It should be tasted.
- Eight. - Eight.
- Here you go. Take the ice cream. - Put it in the plate.
Abhijeet, serve the ice cream!
- Seven! - Seven!
- Six! - Six!
Abhijeet, plate the ice cream!
- Five! - Five!
- Oh! - Oh!
- Just plate it! - Yes, yes!
Just add it to the plate!
- Three! - Three!
Add it anyhow! Just add it!
- Two! - Two!
- One! - One!
- Time's up! Back off! - It's done, it's done!
Did you add the cake?
Oh my God!
Now, one of yours stardom will be ruined!
Let's start with the tasting.
Are you guys ready with the dishes?
- Yes. - Yes.
Let's begin.
Come on, Team Green.
- All the best. - Yes.
The chaos during today's challenge wasn't a good one.
I seriously felt that a lot things
could have happened in a better and planned way.
[gentle music]
- You had three holy ingredients today. - Yeah.
- The first was pandan leaves. - Yeah.
- The second was black corn. - Black corn.
- Black corn. And the third was jumbo prawns. - Prawns. Yeah.
- Prawns. - Yeah.
What did you prepare? Will you tell us, captain?
We prepared Koliwada Sushi using the prawns.
We have topped it with garlic chutney.
- That's it. Soy sauce. - And what is this?
- Is it plain soy sauce? Does it have no flavour? Okay. - No.
The next is Black Corn Burrito Bowl.
The rice we have used in this dish
were cooked using the water
- of the black corn to retain the colour. - Good idea.
And then, we prepared cutlets using the black corn.
And we prepared a dip using the hung curd.
Then, we have Grilled Chicken.
What did you add to it?
- We have added peanut and 'thecha' as the spices. - Okay.
You are back to 'thecha'!
- We have added peanut and 'thecha'. - I was waiting
- for 'thecha'. - Yes.
And salsa.
Corn Salsa?
No. First, we thought of preparing Corn Salsa.
But the corn didn't cook fully.
So, we ground the corn and made cutlets out of it.
- So, this is plain salsa. - Okay.
And pandan leaves...
We prepared a chiffon cake using those leaves.
And Pandan Ice Cream. We added coconut milk to it.
Who prepared what?
I made the Chiffon Cake.
Kabita made the ice cream.
Very good.
Abhijeet and Kabita made the ice cream.
- No, I... - No, I made the ice cream.
I worked mostly on the cake.
What has Teju prepared?
No one prepared a dish single-handedly.
- I prepared Koliwada Prawns. But she fried it. - Okay.
I boiled the rice. And she seasoned it.
So, everyone was... Then, I rolled the sushi.
This round dish...
- It shouldn't be here, right? - Yes.
I think you should have removed it.
You did the plating in haste.
Abhijeet couldn't take it out because the time was up.
We were embarrassed to see that.
I know the plating wasn't great.
Things were delayed.
We did everything in haste.
According to you, is the plate complete or incomplete?
Obviously, it's incomplete because that bowl is still there.
Okay. Is it just that? Or is there some other reason, too?
As in, what you wanted to do,
and what you have done, what's missing between both?
Let's come to this plate first.
I wanted to caramelise the soy sauce and prepare a sweet soy sauce.
Okay. You couldn't do that. What about this?
I missed the dressing.
- You missed dressing. - What about this?
I prepared crumble for the ice cream.
- And gel, too. - Okay.
We forgot to add the crumble. We prepared it.
We couldn't add crumble and gel to it.
- It doesn't have crumble as you plated it in a hurry. - Yes.
Crumble and gel are missing.
First of all, they tasted
Teju's dish.
Koliwada Prawn Sushi.
I seriously don't know how I did it.
So, I am very nervous about my dish today.
[suspenseful music]
The 'thecha' you have prepared is so delicious!
So delicious!
But it is so good, yet it can't save the dish.
[tense music]
You've used nori sheets here. Amazing.
The proportion of the rice is wrong.
But I feel as a concept, beautiful idea.
Koliwala Prawns is almost like...
With all those dense and bold flavours...
But I am lost. The prawns don't have that flavour.
It only has the flavour of salt.
There's a basic thing about Sushi. You've to season the rice.
If you don't add salt or seasoning to the rice...
When I went there, Nikki was cooling down plain rice.
No one seasoned the rice.
It clearly shows no one owned this dish.
Someone boiled the rice. Someone seasoned the rice.
And the one doing first step had no idea about the next one.
Someone fried the prawns for the dish.
But he didn't know how much spicy it should be at the end.
There is no sourness.
If there are five elements in a dish,
every element plays a significant role.
And when those five elements come together, they should
sing the same song.
But that didn't happen here.
There was an unbelievable panic on your table.
And this Sushi is a victim of that panic.
I have been getting pretty harsh comments recently.
My Sushi also got harsh comments.
I am not a professional cook, chef or home chef.
Now, I have stopped feeling bad.
We prepared three dishes, and the first one was a flop.
Now, it was time to taste the second dish.
[tense music]
Come on, sir. Let's taste this.
[suspenseful music]
- Did you add gram flour to the cutlet? - Yes.
[suspenseful music]
- The rice... - Genius!
Oh!
I was delighted!
At least they liked something!
I will remember this first bite for a week.
It is delicious!
The black corn has a kind of earthy smell.
Along with that, it also has a beautiful floral smell.
Imagine sweetness
and a little fragrance of jasmine together.
That's how I can define the rice in this dish.
This cutlet which you've prepared, it is called Blue Corn Falafel.
It is amazing.
She prepared it.
- Yes. - It's delicious!
- Wow! - There's only one problem.
All these things together
don't compliment each other.
Individually, the flavour of this dish is amazing.
The ratio is a problem. The quantity of the rice is too much.
Nikki, I don't know who prepared the chicken, but it's very dry.
- The rice, salsa and the dip... - Dip.
I can have it daily.
I felt so good after hearing that!
I mean, our efforts
truly paid off!
Now, it was time to taste the dessert.
Let's talk about the presentation.
Keeping a blank white chocolate in the plate is never considered good.
Sometimes, we don't have enough time for the presentation.
You can add micro greens to the dessert.
You can add edible gold leaves.
It adds to the profiling of the dish.
Because if we serve this dish at a restaurant,
it will be very difficult for us to prove it worthy for 16 dollars.
But if you garnish it properly,
you can easily sell it for 16 dollars.
And what is this? Pandan Ice Cream?
Yes.
Just Pandan Ice Cream. Does it have any other flavour?
I have added lemon juice to it.
Lemon and Pandan Ice Cream.
[suspenseful music]
If I didn't know pandan leaves were added to it,
it would have been a normal ice cream for me.
The ice cream is good, but it is an ordinary one.
The Chiffon Cake is nice. It's moist. But it is too eggy.
It has the smell and taste of eggs.
Why does it have so eggy flavour?
I think the meringue must have settled down after the heat.
At the last minute, Rajiv asked me to add more egg to the cake.
Had he not asked me to do that,
maybe the eggy flavour would have been avoided.
Look, in South East Asia,
pandan cake and ice creams are very common.
The South East Asian cakes have a sort of egginess to them.
You can go to Vietnam, Malaysia...
But it is too much eggy.
I found the cake too eggy.
The flavour of pandan is not much.
The texture of the ice cream is good.
It has a good fragrance of pandan. It's interesting.
It's flirting with the palate.
But the quantity of pandan is less.
Fundamentally, your team dynamics
was weak. And that reflects in your dishes.
I thought we were done for.
Our graph was down, then it went up,
and that cake brought it down again.
Nikki, what was happening? There was so much of chaos.
There was a lot of confusion.
As usual, Rajiv came and took over.
Because he thinks of himself as the captain.
Just like the eggy flavour took over the Chiffon Cake,
Rajiv has taken over my captaincy.
But that's useless!
His idea was useless.
And his fake captaincy didn't help us either.
Do you think your captain was weak?
The captain wasn't weak.
But I think she was quite focused on her dish.
This cannot be done.
If you are leading a team, you can't focus only on your dish.
You can't take other team member's dish lightly.
And as for Rajiv, his focus was only on the cake.
Even if someone else was working, he was asking him to check the cake.
But that's not how it works.
I got the prawns at the end.
I had to come up with a dish and prepare it in no time.
But while I was trying to communicate regarding that,
I couldn't roll the sushi properly.
- And a lot more happened. - Pressure.
That's what I felt.
All of them were focused on their dishes.
Now, I am in a situation
where if I have prepared a dish single-handedly,
that's only the garlic dip. That's the only thing I prepared.
Do you know when this happens?
It happens when we forget what's at stake.
Not just one of you but the entire team will suffer because of this.
But remember that she has an immunity pin.
You will have to wear a black apron without an immunity pin.
Let me be very clear.
There should be communication about important things in every kitchen.
All of your dishes also have high points
which you should credit each other for.
But you suffered a fall here because
your egos took over the dishes.
And you became very personal about your dishes to be the best.
This never happens at a restaurant or during teamwork.
Because when you win and lose together.
I think you forgot that.
There goes a saying in Punjabi.
'Kalle Jee Di Dal Na Galdi'.
Hmm.
'Katthe Patthar Galde Vekhe.'
One can't cook lentils alone but can boil stones together.
Correct.
Okay? Thank you very much.
- Let's get the next team. - All the best, guys.
We were standing behind them all confused.
We were worried if our dishes were better than theirs.
But then, we thought we would deal with it as a team.
Team Red, please bring your dishes to us.
Fingers crossed.
I just hope the judges
like all the elements or maximum elements of our dishes.
Archana, what did you prepare?
- Everything. - Did you prepare all of them? Wow!
- She means... - You've become an expert!
No. We prepared all the dishes together.
- So, if a dish is bad, all of you will be responsible for that. - Yes.
Farah ma'am, during the ideation,
we knew there were two ingredients.
We were five people.
So, we had planned that every member
should know about all the dishes.
- They should know everything. - At least, a little bit.
So that they don't get stuck.
While we were ideating, we all decided
to listen to the captain with concentration.
So that we knew what we had to add to the dishes and in what quantity.
For example, we decided to bake a cake.
Gaurav and I decided to bake that. So, we both didn't step out.
Gaurav was there, I was baking the cake.
And the idea of preparing a Meen Moilee Sauce was great.
So, he was working on that. But he briefed Mrs. Usha and Archana.
So, we tried our best
to coordinate properly...
- Was Faisu a good captain? - Yes. Very good.
Would you have been a better captain?
I'll always be a better captain. But he was very good at the moment.
Thank you, ma'am.
As a team leader, I didn't let my team members feel
that I was their team leader.
They were all captains.
We kept a thought in mind.
'Today, we will all prepare a dish for ourselves.'
Tell us, what is this? Let's try the first dish.
Those are Black Corn Croquettes with Black Corn Salad.
- And Black Corn Roux Sauce. - Roux Sauce.
If we talk about the look, the dish's look is very off.
The croquettes could have been a little neat.
You could have cut them in the same sizes.
Okay.
For me, this is like, 'Let's serve whatever we have.'
At this stage in MasterChef, it cannot be like that.
If you wanted, you could have
spread the roux sauce on the plate first
and kept three pieces on top of it, and kept the salad on the side.
You could've made this plate look a little more pleasing to the eye.
The idea is beautiful.
- But it doesn't look good. - Okay.
I wish they had asked us to swap.
I would have gone there and done a better presentation.
[suspenseful music]
What did you add to the croquettes to bind them?
- Did you add gram flour or all-purpose flour? - Gram flour.
- We added a little gram flour. - A little gram flour.
Only gram flour.
The salsa is very fresh.
It has a citrusy flavour.
And the texture of corn in it
is the game changer.
When I first saw you, the corn kernels were very hard.
We cooked the corn a lot.
[unintelligible dialogues]
We didn't know the corn would get cooked or not.
I thought the corn would be inedible.
But still, a beautiful attempt.
- It's amazing for me. - Thank you, sir.
[applause]
The croquettes taste amazing. They could've been creamier.
Salsa is working. Corns are perfectly cooked.
The sweetness of bell peppers is balancing the corn well.
The idea and execution of Roux Sauce are spot on.
Over all, it's a good dish.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
The sauce you've made using the black corn
and the black corn itself is to die for.
- This is the star of your dish. - Thank you, ma'am.
It is evident. You've added black corn in different types.
You've made a sauce of it,
added it to the croquettes and as whole, too.
- So, well done. - Thank you, ma'am.
Now, let's come to Archana's dish.
What have you prepared?
Baked Butterflied Tiger Prawns with Meen Moilee Sauce
and a hint of Red Chilli Oil.
The choice of plate is great.
The contrast you've built using the light colours are also good.
The plate is nice.
[suspenseful music]
Have you added pandan leaves to the sauce?
- Curry leaves. - Curry leaves.
- Yes.
And we've added some dill to the other sauce.
- Dill leaves. - Dill leaves.
When they tasted it,
their reactions were neutral.
I was so scared. I was praying not to get kicked out of the team.
[slow heartbeat]
As you said, meen moilee sauce is a typical, classical sauce
from Kerala with coconut,
turmeric, red chilli...
It has some tang and sweetness to it.
I believe it is one of the most balanced sauces in Indian cuisine.
It's well-cooked.
I enjoyed it, but when you put it on the plate,
the dish didn't look complete to me.
- I wanted an element with it. - Okay.
We have baby carrots and so many other vegetables.
You could've saut*ed any of them for the side.
- Yeah. - It would've elevated the dish.
We must consider that.
That we can make a dish better.
Yes.
Still, it's good.
We were in a hurry, sir. So it slipped our minds.
We had a plan to have a side.
There's a missed opportunity,
and then there's an opportunity that hurts a lot when missed.
- This was that. This hurts. - Yes.
Because you brought together the sauce and prawns so beautifully.
The moilee sauce is so good.
And the dill's gentleness...
The balance is so good, but...
the dish is not complete.
I don't know what these two are saying,
- it is yummy. - Yep.
- Yes! - Yummy.
If I had this dish in a restaurant,
I would have kissed the chef's hands.
[chuckles] Thank you.
It is so tasty. This prawn is so...
well-cooked. It's still soft and juicy.
And the sauce... I want to learn how to make it.
Surely.
I was praying that the third dish, the dessert,
is not good. Please, no. Please, no. No, please!
- [tense music plays] - What's this?
Sir, this is pandan choco cake.
It has ginger caramel on the bottom,
- and there's... - Blueberry compote.
Yes, blueberry compote.
Talking about the dish's presentation,
you see desserts like this lying in bistros and delis.
You know, the fast-service bakeries.
With the ingredients you had today,
you could have elevated the dish.
The presentation is quite alarming.
- Ma'am, we were in a hurry. - Actually,
we failed to make some time.
You have a berry compote in the middle.
Yes, a layer of blueberry compote.
I can tell from right here, the cake is dry.
You have glazed it with chocolate.
Did you want to create a hard crust or...
Usually, we glaze a cake with ganache.
- Hmm. - We mix chocolate and cream
to make ganache,
or make a glaze for it.
But you melted chocolate and glazed it with it.
Sir, we wanted to make the ganache.
We were pressed for time,
and we had to put it in the freezer too.
- Next time, you'll get eight hours. - Not eight,
give them 12 hours, and it still wouldn't be enough.
But, ma'am... that was the plan.
- This here, is just... - [soft knocks]
The advantage of a Bounty bar is you can pick it up to eat.
So here, I... You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. - You serve a pastry this big.
- How will I eat it? - Yes.
Right? You could have cut them bite-sized,
or used a softer ganache.
[tense music continues]
The use of pandan leaves is amazing.
- Ooh! - [applause]
[light music plays]
'We were happy.'
So we beamed at each other.
Gaurav's happy. He made the pandan cake.
The cake is dry.
And this is, so far, the best representation of pandan.
Yes.
Pandan's represented here better than in the other team's dessert.
Overall, in many places, you helped each other,
and in others, you couldn't.
But, overall, at least with the black corn and prawns,
you did fair justice.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Beautiful attempt.
I thought, the ball is soaring.
It's about to be a sixer.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- [applause] - Thank you, Usha.
[applause]
'It starting to feel'
like their dessert also isn't up to the mark.
But I don't know if there will be a miracle.
[applause]
After the team challenge today,
the team that is safe...
is...
'We are all worried.'
Will it be green or red? Who will it be?
I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm really worried.
I want to ask Dipika first.
Because when up there, Dipika said...
What did she say?
That the red team looks stronger.
- The red team looked stronger? - Yes.
'We had left the other team behind on a lot of counts,'
'but we were still worried'
that there would be a surprise in store.
Dipika, your statement has been proven
wrong.
Okay. It's them?
Not.
- Red team is safe! - Red team is safe!
- Yeah! - [cheering]
The moment they said, we were all on cloud nine!
All three judges loved all three of our dishes.
[cheering] We're so happy!
- [tense music plays] - [exhales]
'I feel terrible.'
The drawback of this team
was that each one was focused only on their dish,
which we shouldn't have done.
'We're the losing team,'
and now I'm worried that once again,
I'll be in the Black Apron challenge.
Red team is safe this whole week, that is,
this week, you will watch this week's challenges from up there.
None of you is going home this week.
[applause]
Green team, tomorrow, you will get another chance
to escape the black apron.
And tomorrow, you will cook solo.
So things should be better hopefully.
Make the best of this opportunity.
We will meet tomorrow. May today's mistakes make us wiser.
Let's make up with each other and good food once again.
Good night. Thank you. See you tomorrow.
- [applause] - All the best!
All the best!
[applause diminishes]