MasterChef Australia Season Four – Italian MasterClass (or is it…?)

Previous Episode: MasterChef Australia Season Four – The BIG Double Elimination!

The contestants are about to go on a once in a lifetime trip to Italy; so to prepare, will they actually get to know some Italiano skills?

Gary and Matt Moran are in the kitchen today, and they get into it!

Lesson 1: Roasted Blue-Eyed Trevalla

Well, this isn’t too Italian; and it is the one-hundredth time this week a trevalla dish has been cooked! Mindy cooks the dish alongside Gary. They learn how to make a basil pesto. Cooking the seafood correctly, including the mussels for the mussel soup they will be creating, is paramount here.

They’re all allowed a taste.

Lesson 2: Cauliflower & White Chocolate Ice Cream

This is one of Matt’s creations. It is very weird, and not very Italian. It’s interesting how he gets the cauliflower into the ice-cream. It’s infused- so the cauliflower technically isn’t in the ice-cream. Well actually, it is. My idea of ‘infusion’ is clearly different! Matt also goes through how to make a nutmeg sponge. I love how little time that sponge takes.

The plating is magnificent! It’s mesmerising to watch. Beau and Julia are asked to taste.

Lesson 3: Gary’s Beef Pie

Definitely not Italian! It seems to be a staple of Gary’s. I recall him cooking it before. He gives reason as to why he uses the ingredients, like steak, he uses. A straight forward but very upper class meat pie. This is Gary’s afterall, so it’s nothing heavily simple! Ben helps Gary make the pastry. Everyone gets a taste…with some tomato sauce that is.

They then finish off the MasterClass, in which an Italian Feast was promised. Maybe next week…

Oh, there we are, they get special Italy packs with their own camera and plane tickets before indulging in an Italian feast. I have also been told that next week’s MasterClass will, like the rest of the week, be Italian themed.

MasterChef Australia next airs Jul 8 at 7.30PM on TEN. 

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  • http://twitter.com/johnsonleung Johnson Leung

    I love meat pies :) I would love to try the beef and Guinness pies, I just don’t want to see onion and garlic in the filling :-p
    Did you notice that the wooden Mystery Boxes were used as footrests and to allow contestants to climb and sit on top of the ovens? Also, the plane tickets given to the contestants (each individually named) were fake, even though they looked real boarding passes? There was a close-up at Kylie’s ticket (in the video on the MC website and The Age website it’s at the 9:37 mark in the sixth clip) and I noticed it had no departure date, so I was certain the ticket was a fake. I think the actual tickets would be given to them when they returned to the house or when they arrived at Sydney Airport for departure.