MasterChef Australia (2009–…): Season 14, Episode 56 - Episode #14.56 - full transcript
Finals Week sees our six finalists travel to Oyster Bay in Tasmania, where they will face a two-round oyster challenge. They'll need to be super creative to avoid being shucked out of the competition.
It's breathtaking, isn't it?
(LAUGHS)
Their cooking was inspired...
KEYMA: I have a really special dish
and I think today is the day.
DANIEL: It's the most incredible
feeling when you get pushed
and a bit of pressure
and what your brain can do.
..serving up spectacular dishes.
MEL: It is phenomenal!
JOCK: THEY are killer.
Ye-e-es!
But it was time to say goodbye
to a MasterChef favourite.
ALVIN: It's been an honour
and privilege to be asked back.
JOCK: Give it up for Alvin,
everybody!
(ALL CHEER)
Tonight -
the top five are going all out...
SARAH: At this point
in the competition,
you can't afford any error.
..for the biggest advantage yet.
# 'Cause you're hot,
then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down
# You're wrong when it's right
# It's black and it's white
# We fight, we break up
# We kiss, we make up
# You're hot, then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down. #
JULIE: Today's an immunity cook
and here we are in Launceston,
on the banks of the River Tamar.
And I'm still just thrilled
to be here, in the top five
and in this beautiful place.
Good morning.
ALL: Morning!
Welcome to beautiful
and historic Launceston.
This city has just been named
a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.
Oh, wow.
Northern Tasmania has long been noted
for its world-class agriculture.
Its paddock-to-plate food is backed
by sustainable wineries and farms.
And one of those farms
grows the ingredient that will form
the basis of your challenge today.
And that is...
..truffles!
ANDY: Yeah. it is!
JOCK: Yes, it is!
(ALL CHEER)
This region produces some of
the best truffles in the world.
So...
..we're gonna send you off to
the truffle farm nearby to meet Anna
and you are gonna hunt
your very own truffles
that you'll cook with
later on in the challenge.
How good's that?
Truffles? Oh, my God.
I don't cook with truffles at all.
I have dishes in, you know,
fancy restaurants with truffles
and I like them but...
..they're not even a thing
in Venezuela.
Great.
Wow.
So, get outta here.
We'll see you soon.
Alright.
Bye!
See ya. Good luck.
I am so excited
to go truffle hunting.
I think this is gonna be
a really fun experience
and something that we would not
usually get to do.
This scenery is picturesque.
We've got these rolling hills and
beautiful shades of green and trees
and it feels like a bit
of a fairytale.
DANIEL: Oh, the dogs!
The dogs!
Hi, guys!
(DOGS BARK)
Sorry about the welcoming party.
(ALL GREET EXCITEDLY)
They're not gonna do any work now
'cause they've got
all these free pats. (CHUCKLES)
Well, sorry. Neither are we,
now that we've got dogs to pat.
(LAUGHS)
Welcome to the farm.
ALL: Thank you.
I'm Anna. You've met the crew.
Here we've got Douglas,
our golden labrador.
He's our chief hunter.
Hi, Douglas.
Then we've got Poppy here
and then we've got Peggy,
who is our resident
puppy in training.
(ALL SIGH)
I'm very fortunate that I've grown up
here at the truffle farm.
My parents were actually the pioneers
of the truffle industry
within Australia
so I've been around truffles
since day dot.
Um, probably don't know how to cook
with them as well as you guys do.
But today, gonna take you guys
for a bit of a hunt, put you to work,
get you nice and grubby, hopefully.
So, if you guys would like
to come with me
and we'll go and see
what we can find.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
(CHUCKLES)
JULIE: Douglas!
We gotta go find some stuff.
(GIGGLES) So cute!
Come on, Douglas!
I never even had fresh truffles
before coming here.
So now we're gonna go
and farm our own. It's incredible.
BILLIE: Ooh, baskets!
And a trowel.
I mean, look at me,
I've got a bloody sweater on,
like, I'm gonna go truffle farming.
What's happened to me?
(CHUCKLES)
Poppy, sit.
Good girl. Let's go hunting.
Let's go hunting. Good boy.
Good girl. Good girl.
Where's the truffle?
Let's find. Let's find.
Where is it? Let's find it.
I'm just in awe,
watching what Anna's doing
and how she's controlling these dogs
and telling them to go and hunt
and they know exactly
what she's telling them to do.
Can you show me where, please?
It makes me wanna be
a truffle farmer.
Good girl. Stop. Thank you.
SARAH: Oh, my gosh.
Clever girl.
Wow.
Ooh, you rolled him out. Well done.
Oh, my gosh. Wow!
(ALL LAUGH)
Yes!
Oh, it smells incredible.
And there is actually
another one there.
Another one! Go, Billie.
Go for it.
Oh, you got it.
Yes!
Digging them up out of the ground
and getting your hands dirty,
getting right down
under that truffle,
it's such a cool feeling.
Amazing.
And I think I wanna do a dessert.
Can we go this way, please?
(GASPS) Can we go this way, please?
Douglas is onto another one.
Go, Dan.
Oh, yes.
Good boy. Come here. Good boy.
Where on here. (LAUGHS)
Dan, that's the fun part.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Oh, my God! Stop!
No way.
You take your time with that one,
Dan. We don't wanna be breaking him.
JULIE: Daniel starts digging up
this truffle
and it just keeps going and going.
Gentle. Gentle.
Use your fairy fingers, Dan.
SARAH: That is insane.
If you give it a bit of a wobble.
Yep, now...
(GASPS)
..work it out.
(ALL EXCLAIM AND LAUGH)
That's amazing!
It's like the size of a human head.
That is huge!
(LAUGHS)
It's massive and I don't know
what the going rate for truffles is
but...I know they're expensive
and I've got the biggest one.
BILLIE: Still soft?
SARAH: Yeah, soft! (LAUGHS)
You've done very well.
I think you guys have enough
to cook with
and you probably cleaned me out
for the day.
(ALL LAUGH)
So I hope they serve you well
and please do them justice for me,
that'd be great.
Um, plus, uh...
(PEGGY BARKS)
Oop.
BILLIE: Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for having us.
Oh, no worry at all.
Shall I go see
what I've got left in here?
(ALL LAUGH)
JULIE: Dug up a nugget, like Eureka!
DANIEL: Dug up a...
Yeah, that's what it felt...
(LAUGHS)
Mate. Black gold.
Black gold.
Can't wait to cook with them.
(LAUGHS)
BILLIE: Seriously, best day ever.
I know! (LAUGHS)
JOCK: Welcome back, guys!
ALL: Thanks!
Got some shiny presents.
I know.
Ooh.
Nice harvest.
Nice harvest.
Oh, wow!
They smell - and they look -
brilliant.
Look at Dan's!
DANIEL: Have a go at that stonker.
What?!
(ALL LAUGH)
No... Come on, make your way
to your benches. Let's go.
Alright.
Thank you.
Yep.
Hi. (CHUCKLES)
Alright, guys, listen up,
you've got 60 minutes
to cook your truffle dish.
And we don't want just truffle
to be on the plate,
we want it to elevate your dish.
Take it from good to gourmet.
The pantry is packed full of fresh
produce from north-west Tasmania.
It's one of Australia's
best food bowls.
So, use it to your advantage.
The best dish cooked today
will win its maker immunity
from tomorrow's elimination.
And your 60 minutes...
..starts now.
(JUDGES CLAP)
JULIE: It's lovely enough to cook
with something as beautiful
as truffles...
..but it's not the easiest task.
(CHUCKLES)
Oop!
SARAH: Cooking with truffles
can be a little bit tough
because it's such a strong flavour
and it's such
a delicate ingredient...
Can I just get past...? Sorry.
..that you really need to hero it
and let it sing
without, you know,
overcomplicating the dish.
BILLIE: I think getting that perfect
flavour balance of truffle is key.
It could be overpowering if there
was too much truffle flavour.
So I think getting the balance right
will be important.
Um, I'm gonna go round you, Dan.
Excuse me.
Yep.
Tell me someone whose comfort zone
this is in.
Because for someone to have a recipe
where they can elevate a dish
with truffles willy nilly,
they would have to be a millionaire.
"Let me just go grab my fresh truffle
out of the fridge."
Like, no-one's got that
laying around. (CHUCKLES)
They're expensive-as.
I am making truffled potatoes.
When I think of truffles, for me,
I wanna eat it with something
that just really carries
the flavour of the truffles and,
yeah, potatoes do that the best.
So I've got, um, the potato fondant.
I'm doing potato aligot,
it's like a kind of cheesy mash,
and a light, airy potato on top.
In my mind, I can envision this dish
being an immunity-winning dish.
It's just all about
nailing all of these elements.
60 minutes to bring us
a doozy truffle dish but, I mean,
what also helps them
is this Rolls-Royce of pantry
from the north-west of Tasmania.
Like, come on,
does it get any better than this?!
You know, cheeses, pumpkin,
mushrooms, potatoes.
All of that wine and cider as well.
Like, it is literally stocked
with Tassie's finest.
This is why you come to Tassie - to
get your hands on produce like this.
Hundred percent, the north-west
is known for its great produce
and basically, what we've done is
pick the very best of it...
(CHUCKLES)
..stick it in a pantry
and now they've got 60 minutes
to bring us an epic dish.
How can it not be epic...
I know.
..with such amazing produce.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a once-in-a-lifetime
cook's dream.
These are going to be
brilliant dishes, I know it.
Hands up if you love truffles.
Yeah, two hands.
Two hands.
Right, what are you cooking?
Tassie's known for its southern rock
so I think I'd just luxe it up
and go southern rock lobster.
I think I'd be pretty simple
with the lobster.
Maybe poach it in some butter
and cider.
Make a sauce
out of all the head meat
and then go hard as I possibly could
with the truffle over the top.
Yum.
Show off the lobster,
show off the truffle,
two of Tassie's best ingredients
combined.
Yep.
Gotta be a winner.
Nice. Mel, what would you cook?
Uh, look, I am really
into the idea of a luxe...
A fully loaded omelette.
I love the crays as well
so crays, egg, truffle,
just beautiful flavours together.
Very simple.
I wouldn't try to do any more
than that.
But when you have such luxurious
ingredients in their raw form here,
you don't need to do much
to really elevate.
What about you?
I'd be cooking, um,
little truffle quails.
Good news is,
I think there's a little gap there
where a couple of quail
have been taken.
Ooh. Julie has them.
So we could be seeing some quail.
Yes, I can see Julie Goodwin
breaking down a quail right now.
Argh! (CHUCKLES)
Back in season one,
I had the enormous privilege
of cooking at the Hong Kong
Jockey Club with Donovan Cooke...
You ready?
Yep.
(GASPS)
..and he had a dish on the menu
that was pigeon
with truffles and celeriac.
Wow. It's beautiful.
So, my dish is inspired by that.
Obviously, I don't have pigeon
so I'm gonna use quail.
I'm gonna make
a truffled celeriac puree
with truffle-stuffed quail breast.
I can't remember any of the recipes
that I cooked on that day
but I hope I do the flavours
justice.
The first thing I'm cooking
is the celeriac puree.
I'm gonna use truffle
in the celeriac puree
by pureeing up the celeriac
and then putting
a load of truffle into it.
I'm also gonna use truffle
in the quail breast.
I'm going for the top dish today.
I really, really want immunity.
It's so important
at this stage of the game.
The fewer of us there are,
the higher the odds are that you're
the one that's going home next.
And I haven't raised my head to
look at the finish line too often
'cause I'm too focused on what's
in front of me on my kitchen bench.
But when I do lift my head up
and look at the finish line,
it's getting closer and closer
and the idea of reaching it,
it's pretty appealing.
KEYMA: I am so nervous
about this challenge.
I don't cook with truffles at all.
At the moment,
I don't know what to do.
I'm just going by my gut.
I know that truffle
goes with creamy stuff
so I'm thinking
that the creaminess of corn
could lean towards
the truffle flavour and...
..the first thing that comes
to my mind is my cachapas.
And I'm thinking flavours of cachapas
with truffles.
I've already made it here
in the kitchen.
(ANDY CHORTLES)
This is a very emblematic dish
in Venezuela.
It's called cachapas.
Keyma, beautiful dish.
Please make it again
because I really enjoyed it.
Well done.
But I'm thinking how to actually grab
those flavours
and just put it into something
a little bit more refined,
a little bit more truffle-forward.
(LAUGHS)
I'm going to do
two different textures of corn -
creamed corn
and the second texture will be, like,
a really heavily grilled corn,
which I'm planning to grill
on the hibachi.
Keyma.
Hello. How are you?
What's your dish?
I'm cooking, like,
an interpretation of a cachapas.
At the beginning of your experience
here in MasterChef,
we've seen cachapas before.
Yep.
I have a feeling this is going to be
entirely different.
They're gonna just take it to the
next level and make it really fancy
and nice to eat.
A bit more... A lot more refined,
not a bit.
(LAUGHS) A lot more refined.
Talk to me about your relationship
with truffles.
Uh, none. Zero.
I've eaten them
but I've never cooked with them.
The presence of the truffles on
your dish need to make your dish
better than the dish would be
if it didn't have truffles.
Yep.
This is immunity you want.
You want this one.
Yes. Yes, totally.
Thank you.
Even though I have made cachapas
several times before,
I've never cooked with truffles
at all
so I don't know
how is this gonna come together.
I'm really worried.
45 minutes to go.
JOCK: Let's go.
I gotta have a look at this thing.
(CHUCKLES)
You have got to be kidding me.
MEL: Whoa!
Can you believe you found that?
490 gram.
It's half a kilo of truffle!
(LAUGHS)
Very impressive.
I've got my massive truffle
and I'm just sort of thinking
how can I make something really flash
with a bunch of truffles.
Mum used to make cabbage gratin.
Literally, like, cabbage
baked with cheese and bechamel
and I'm thinking, "Well,
that could be pretty bougie
"with truffles added to it."
So I'm gonna make that.
I'm gonna sear my cabbage a little
bit and throw that into the oven
so it bakes and goes nice and soft.
And then, I've gotta get started
on my very luxe spicy bechamel cheese
sauce with truffles all through that.
OK, um...
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Get it in there.
Can't even get it in my pocket,
it's that big.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my God,
finding those truffles today
was just one of the best
experiences I've ever had.
I had the best time.
But yeah, I've sort of been thinking
on the way back of what to make
and the dish is a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse
and a chocolate crumb.
So, I don't just wanna do any old
sort of truffle ice-cream dessert
with a chocolate crumb,
I wanna make it more
about what we did today
and make it actually look like
a truffle sitting on that dirt
that we pulled it out of today.
So, the first thing I start on
is this truffle ice-cream.
I don't want this truffle ice-cream
to be overly sweet.
I think using creme fraiche will
give it a little bit of acidity
and hopefully carry the truffle
flavour a little better.
Coming back to this season
of MasterChef,
I didn't really think that
savoury desserts would be my thing
but I've found myself cooking them
quite often
and really, really enjoying it.
Unfortunately,
they don't always hit the mark.
But today, I wanna be presenting
the judges a winning dish.
I feel really happy today
so if I get immunity,
I'll just be over the moon.
Happy with that. Happy with that.
I've got my truffled celeriac puree
done.
I've got my jus bubbling away there,
tastes really good,
it'll only get richer as it reduces,
so I'm happy with that.
And so now, I'm using truffle
in the quail breast.
It'll be truffly.
# Every day I'm truffling. #
So, these quails are so tiny
that I don't want to use
the breast as a singular thing
because it'll overcook.
So I'm going to double the breast
over and put truffle in between,
wrap it up in the skin
that's still attached to it,
then put shaved truffle all over it,
and put guanciale,
which is very thinly sliced pork fat,
all the way around it
so the heat's not gonna get in
and ruin that truffle.
Julie.
I'm smelling
some really good smells here.
(LAUGHS)
What's the dish?
Truffled quail
with truffled celeriac puree.
Some vincotto glazed grapes
and walnuts.
Beautiful. So talk me
through your elements of truffle.
In the celeriac puree, I've put
fresh truffle in at the end.
Great.
Tastes great.
Beautiful.
And then inside the quail,
so, I've removed the double breast
from the quail
and wrapped it around some truffle.
Stuffed. Love it.
Then I'm putting it on the outside,
I'm gonna wrap it in some guanciale
and panfry that.
Yes!
'Cause, you know,
why not have some pork fat?
Exactly.
Think if I pull off every element,
the way I see it in my head,
I think I have a chance
at this immunity.
KEYMA: The challenge today
is truffles.
I'm so nervous
but I'm just gonna trust my gut
and grate some truffles
in the cream corn
so it just infuses the whole puree.
I'm just hoping it works.
I taste a little bit.
Yeah, they're delicious.
It's like a match. (CHUCKLES)
Now that I know corn and truffle
goes so well together,
I think my dish is gonna work.
Dan?
Can I borrow the truffle oil?
Yep.
Normally, cachapas
is served with cheese and pork
so I wanna incorporate the pork
flavour into the whole dish
because I know that corn and pork
go together.
So, I'm hoping
that truffles and pork go together
so all of it is a match
made in heaven, I guess.
SARAH: So, for potato aligot,
once my potatoes are soft
and, you know, really tender,
they need to go through a drum sieve.
And they get mixed
with a lot of cheese.
It's like a serious workout.
Oh, God, my arm's sore!
(CHUCKLES)
I need your muscles, Dan.
(LAUGHS)
I'm whisking this
as hard as I can to make it creamy
and just to really bring out
the stringiness in that cheese.
JOCK: Sarah.
ANDY: Hey, Sarah.
Hi.
So, it's a dish all about potatoes.
Yes. It is.
So...pommes aligot,
the potato fondant
and then a light, airy potato
over the top.
So...potatoes on top of potatoes.
Yep.
With some more potatoes.
Yep. Lots of potato.
Bit of cheese and the truffle...?
Yeah, I wanna know
where's the truffle?
Yeah.
So, I put a bit of truffle vinegar
in here
and it's all about
the fresh truffle over the top.
If there's one day to go as hard as
you possibly want with truffle...
Yeah.
..it is today.
And at the moment,
there's, like, not even a waft.
You plucked that thing
out of the earth not long ago...
Yep.
..like, use it.
We're not charging you
for the truffles.
It's alright, you're not getting
an invoice. Use it!
Yep.
Get into them!
Yep.
Come on.
Use it.
OK.
I want the judges
to be happy with the dish.
Because ultimately,
I want to be safe today.
I want this dish to win.
And if they're not happy
with my elements,
you know, how am I going to be able
to make this a winning dish?
(SIGHS)
30 minutes to go! Come on!
MEL: Come on!
Today, I'm making a roasted cabbage
with a truffle and gruyere bechamel.
Bechamel has come together nicely.
Nice and thick. Nice and cheesy.
Mustard works really well in there.
So, I'm really happy with that,
to be honest.
My cabbage is cooking really well.
Oh, that's looking good.
This is one of those things
that you...
..well, probably never get to do
is go and pick a truffle
and then cook a dish with it with
the beautiful backdrop of Launceston.
Oh, look at
that bloody truffle goodness!
I'll be writing that one down
in the 'Cool Thing's I've Done
in Daniel's Life.' (CHUCKLES)
If there's ever a day
to go and burn a...
mountain-load of money on truffle,
today's the day, so I'm taking
my cabbage out of the oven
and I'm opening up the leaves
and I'm just...
..sprinkling in truffle in between
these leaves of cabbage, like...
(CHUCKLES)
Don't be shy with the truffles.
If it's gonna be a day where you use
truffle, then damn well use truffle.
There's so much truffle
in this thing, hey.
This is gonna be
the most bougiest cabbage ever.
Hey? (CHUCKLES)
This cabbage is, like,
worth more than my damn mortgage.
Having a win, Billie?
Huh?
Having a win?
Having a win?
Yeah.
Um...
..not losing just yet.
Yeah, I'm feeling good about
how everything is progressing.
I've got my truffle ice-cream
in the machine.
I'm happy with that.
And I need to finish off
the chocolate mousse
and the chocolate soil next.
BOTH: Billie.
Hi.
ANDY: What's going on?
Talk to me about your dish.
The dish is a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse
and a chocolate crumb.
Wanna make it look like a truffle
sitting on dirt.
Taking inspiration
from where we were this morning
and getting them
straight out of the ground,
that was probably one of the best
things I've ever done in my life.
Nice.
Amazing.
Are we truffle-hunting in a bowl?
Is that what's happening?
Yeah.
Your dish sounds fantastic.
This could be killer.
It could be.
If you balance, like,
the sweetness with the savoury
and then the truffle
just powering through every layer.
Mm-hm.
Like, this could be epic.
Jock and Andy seem pretty excited
by my dish...
And you're the only dessert
in the kitchen today as well, so...
Yeah.
You've got a pretty good chance
of standing out.
All you've gotta do is nail it,
right?
Yeah.
Hey, the door's open.
Yes.
The door is open.
Just walk through it.
Fill it with truffle.
..and that definitely gives me
a boost of confidence.
But...
..to have the chance
to win immunity,
I just need to make sure I get
the balance of flavours 100% right
on this dish.
15 minutes, gang.
15 to go.
Let's go!
KEYMA: Now that I'm starting
to feel confident with truffles,
I want to make sure
that truffle flavour
shines through the whole dish.
So, I'm gonna make
a truffle-heavy sauce
to tie the whole dish together.
I have my pork in the oven,
I have my roasted corn,
so I need to pull it all together.
So today, more than, ever,
immunity is really, really important.
I'm cooking against the best
of the best in this kitchen.
And I may have to bring my A-game.
Um, the judges
are after a lot of truffles.
So...I think the key
is to load it up.
I feel the judges really want me
to bring home the truffles
with this dish
and my intention was more
to just load it on the top
of that pillowy cream potato.
So, I think I need to reinforce
that truffle flavour.
But soon as I start adding
more truffles to my aligot,
it seems to split.
Oh, God!
Oh. Yikes.
Something's reacting
and it's just not got that beautiful
stringiness that it had before.
Oh, my God, what a mess.
It was perfect,
it was gonna be fine.
But then it's gone a bit grainy
when I added more truffle.
At this point in the competition,
I can't afford any error
in an element.
But I don't have time
to start again.
(SIGHS) Yi-yi-yi.
Five cooks at the top of their game,
not a bad dish amongst them.
Dan, roast cabbage,
truffle cheese sauce - yum.
Sarah, truffle potatoes - delicious.
Billie - dessert.
Keyma, remember her cachapas -
the corn pancake -
modern interpretation of,
very excited.
And then lastly,
Julie is doing what you would do -
quail, stuffing the truffle
in the quail, beautiful jus.
She is going hard out
to win this thing,
she really wants it and I think she
really could with a dish like that
if she gets everything perfect.
I've got my little quail breasts
stuffed and wrapped.
So now it's time to start
panfrying my quail.
I need to cook them
on a very quick heat
because I wanna get some colour
on the outside
without it cooking
all the way through.
And it's gonna cook through
pretty quickly.
That's sort of my scariest thing
is getting the cook on those right.
I want them to be medium rare.
The biggest risk factor of all
is overcooking it.
Ah!
Because...it can overcook
very, very easily.
Let's face it, if the quail
doesn't work out on this dish,
I can kiss immunity goodbye.
BILLIE: So, I've just made
my truffle truffle,
which is, like, the, um, truffle
but it's actually chocolate mousse.
So the coating on the outside
has the truffle, cocoa
and some crystallised chocolate.
So, yeah, I was hoping it would turn
really dark and it has,
so, really happy with that.
I'm happy with the flavours
so far in this dish.
The ice-cream...
..is very strong
with that truffle flavour.
The chocolate mousse is just that
beautiful rich chocolate flavour.
And knowing the judges were really
happy with my idea for this dish,
yeah, I feel like it puts me
in a pretty good position
to maybe get that immunity.
I've just gotta finish off this soil
then I'm done.
We want to see five bougie dishes
in five minutes!
Come on!
Bring us bougie!
Yeah.
(CHUCKLES)
JULIE: I'm frying off
my quail breast.
The biggest risk factor of all
is overcooking it.
So I don't leave it any longer, I get
it out, I get it off that hot pan
and set it aside to rest.
Julie Goodwin.
Hello, Julie.
Hello.
Is that the little quail guys?
Yeah, it's the double breast
wrapped around some truffle
and then wrapped in some guanciale.
Is immunity yours?
I hope so. I'm trying for it.
Back-to-back.
Yeah.
Could she go back-to-back?
I'd love to go back to back.
Come on, girl.
Thank you.
Good luck.
It's the moment of truth.
It's time for a little prayer.
Oh, my God,
please don't be overcooked.
It's medium rare and it's got that
beautiful line of pure truffle
through the middle.
Beautiful.
BILLIE: I'm really happy
with this dish.
The truffle has actually worked out
much better than I thought it would.
And the ice-cream is nice and creamy
and it's all sitting on this
sort of crunchy chocolate soil.
It looks like the truffle that I
pulled out of the dirt this morning,
so I'm quite excited
to show that to the judges.
DANIEL: My dish is ugly, I know that,
but it's a really tasty
piece of cabbage.
And I think the truffles
is what makes it better.
So, I think
I've definitely hit the brief,
I've elevated the dish with truffles.
Seriously, if the judge say
I haven't used enough truffle, man,
like, they need to see the bill.
There's a lot of truffle
in that thing. Like...
..it's almost more truffle
than it is cabbage at the moment.
Bougie cabbage.
30 secoooonds!
JOCK: Come on, guys!
Whoo!
KEYMA: I'm plating
with 30 seconds to go.
I'm just adding some of
the cream corn puree underneath.
The three medallions of pork loin.
The cream corn round the sides
and then truffle butter.
It needs more truffles.
It's a truffle challenge, isn't it?
So I'm gonna shave more truffles
on top.
10!
JUDGES: 9, 8, 7,
6, 5, 4,
3, 2, 1!
That's it!
(EXHALES)
Well done, trufflers.
BILLIE: How did you go, Miss?
Uh.
As good as I can be.
Good.
(CHUCKLES)
Crazy. That was crazy.
Well, truffles
was the order of the day
and we would like to see it
writ large across your dishes.
The prize for the best dish today -
the first spot in our top four.
The first dish we'd like to taste
belongs to Keyma.
If they wanted truffles...
truffles there are. (LAUGHS)
Keyma, what's the dish, please?
The dish is Flavours of Cachapas.
Which is a corn pancake.
We've seen cachapas before from you.
Yes.
This is a very different version
of that.
Very different.
Are you happy with the dish?
I'm happy with the dish.
And I think the flavour is there.
It's truffle-forward
and I really like it.
I hope you just...like it as well.
Keyma, I love the concept.
You know,
your little play on cachapas.
Brilliant cook on the pork.
Pork loin is such a hard one
to get right
and I don't think you could have
done that any better.
And it helps that it was
a really bloody good piece
of pork loin as well.
Thank you, Tassie.
(GIGGLES)
Um, the simplicity of
that charred corn was delicious.
I loved the pairing
of truffle and corn.
The pork is beautiful,
the spice rub really complements
the sweetness of the pork
and the charred corn as well gives it
that really nice deep caramelisation
that balances out the sweetness
of the creamed corn.
Keyma, it's like cachapas 2.0.
I really enjoyed it.
I think you did a great job of
capturing the spirit of that flavour
and feeling in the dish.
I really, really enjoyed this.
Great cooking on the pork,
fantastic.
And here we are again,
you've got another ingredient
that you haven't used before
but because your cooking
is at a level now
where you're able to draw on your
own gut feeling of what's right.
Isn't that amazing
that you can work with a product
you've never used before
and still create magic on a plate?
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you.
Well done.
Thank you.
Nice one, Keyma.
Great. Good work.
Well done.
Next up...with a big truffle
from a big man, it's Daniel.
Epic call-up, that, wasn't it?
I would love to win immunity.
I want them to be like,
"OK, damn, this is a pretty nice
piece of cabbage.
"Tastes like truffles."
But...we just have to wait and see.
Applications for next season
are now open.
Go on, get on it!
Daniel, what did you cook?
I made a roasted cabbage with
a truffle and gruyere bechamel.
Daniel, good news, delicious, mate.
The flavour you got into
that bechamel is, like, topnotch.
You know, it's rich,
it's deep, it's salty.
The funk that the truffle brings
is definitely there.
Um, so you massively hit the brief
with that element alone.
I really enjoyed the little pieces
of the crispy speck on top.
That with the purple sauerkraut
and the bechamel,
that's when it really lit up.
Yep.
The only problem I've got is just
the seasoning on the cabbage.
It could have done with
a heap more salt.
Oh, OK.
You think that you're seasoning it,
like aggressively...
(CHUCKLES)
But, like, you've gotta think,
the cabbage is, like, that thick
so you've really gotta
make an effort
of driving the seasoning in somehow.
Yeah.
We'll see if the seasoning
on the cabbage lets you down
or if it gets you home.
You never know.
Oh, thanks, Andy, cheers.
That was a really delicious
bite of food, Daniel.
(CHUCKLES) Oh, cool.
And I'm really glad
that the way Jock cut it up,
we got to have a little bit
of everything from the core
all the way through to the leaves
because the gradiation of flavours
from sweet all the way through
to caramelised
is really what we love
about a roasted cabbage.
It has just a real contrast
of degrees of flavour,
which is really, really nice.
You've put a lot of truffles
through it.
There's a lot of truffle going on,
there's a lot of fragrance
and flavour.
It's exactly what you needed
to do today.
It's not a perfect dish but it's
definitely vying for immunity.
Thanks, guys. Cheers.
Well done.
It's good to know
I'm thinking on the right track.
Yeah, yeah.
Next up, it's Sarah.
I'm really happy with the flavours
of my dish
and I really love the different
plays on potato and truffle
that I've got throughout the dish.
I'm really concerned
about the aligot.
The flavour is there but the texture
is just not how I wanted it to be.
Sarah, what's the dish, please?
I have made truffle potatoes.
Sarah, um, I've got no issue
with the flavours.
But the texture, it just wasn't
as good as it could have been.
Mmm.
Sound idea, really sound idea
and ambitious,
so that's a really good thing
that you should hold onto.
Unfortunately, the execution wasn't
commensurate with what you needed
to be able to achieve.
If you'd nailed the texture
of the aligot,
it would have been
absolutely vying for immunity.
Yep.
Sarah, we want you to succeed.
That's the biggest thing here.
Yes. Thank you, Sarah.
Next up - Billie.
I want the judges to get
that really rich truffle flavour
from the ice-cream and then the
chocolate and the hazelnut flavours,
I want just to sort of complement
that main event,
which is the truffle ice-cream.
Ooh!
It has to be really
truffled flavoured.
Otherwise it would just be
a plain vanilla ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse.
Billie, what's the dish?
It's a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate truffle.
Can I just say
that looks really, really good.
Thanks. Thank you.
You were thinking about this
while you were truffle hunting?
Yeah. Well, it was such
a cool experience to do that
and get your hands in the dirt
and actually do it.
I loved it.
Let's try it.
It was a genius dessert.
Because as you're crunching through
that crumb,
I can imagine walking down
the gravel, poplar-lined driveway
of your truffle farm.
I could see it.
Yeah.
Your mousse - texture is fantastic,
the flavour is brilliant.
Billie...creme fraiche ice-cream,
it's got acidity,
texture was beautiful,
it was fantastic.
And then, you know, you're sort of
chocolate soil guy down the bottom.
Genius dessert, looked fantastic,
all the elements were perfect...
..but the truffle.
Bugger.
You can taste it in the ice-cream
but as soon as you have
any of the chocolate components,
it very quickly disappears.
Big damn.
Billie!
Big damn!
Ohhhh!
Thank you, Billie.
Thank you, Billie.
Dammit!
The next truffle dish we'd like to
taste belongs to Julie Goodwin.
Sauce her up, Jules.
I want the judges
to experience a fine-dining dish
that smells of truffle,
that tastes of truffle.
I'm hoping with everything I have
that my dish
is gonna get me across the line
and keep me safe
from this next elimination.
(SIGHS)
It's quail
with celeriac and truffles.
Yum! This is quite sort of -
dare I say - fine dining for you.
(LAUGHS)
Is it?
It is a little bit
but I think of truffle
as kind of a fine-dining ingredient.
Yeah, right.
We're not shaving it over
our spaghetti bolognaise at home.
You aren't?
When I grow them myself,
I may do that.
It just feels like a luxury item
and I felt like I wanted to make
a luxury dish to go with that.
Let's taste it, guys.
Julie. I really enjoyed that.
The quail - brilliant job.
It was beautifully cooked.
It reeked of truffle. Amazing.
Your sauce work is fantastic.
Like, that's proper good.
Thank you.
Your celeriac puree
has let you down a little bit.
What you needed,
just to set that quail off
and make it sing
with that beautiful sauce
is for the puree to be,
like, creamy and silky.
I love the attention to detail
with the quail -
perfectly cooked, beautifully tender
with just those few slivers
of truffles through,
wrap the guanciale that not only
protected the quail
but also imbued it with moisture
and a smoky richness.
It was just a really smart move
on your behalf today.
And then the puree, I thought
celeriac and truffle,
both deeply earthy in their perfume,
best mates,
so the concept was really sound.
OK, so the way you achieved that
today
wasn't as perfect
as it could have been
but as it stands, it was a really
refined, truffly plate of food
and I think you did really well.
Thanks, Mel. Thank you.
The sauce is, like, unbelievable.
Sweet, sticky, salty, like,
it is so on point it's not funny
and the cook on the quail
was unbelievable.
Really well done.
Thank you.
Thanks, Julie.
Cheers.
Alright. (LAUGHS)
Great work.
May I just say how good is Tasmania?
Hunting for fresh truffles
and then cooking with them,
right here in the heart
of Launceston.
That's the kind of experience
you cannot get anywhere else
and one that will stay with you
for a very long time.
We wanted you to use those truffles
to elevate your dish,
win immunity and secure your place
in the top four.
And this was a tough decision for us.
Sarah, Billie, Daniel,
sorry, you won't be winning immunity
today.
Keyma, Julie...
..we really enjoyed both your dishes
and both of them used truffle
in an elevated way.
Keyma,
your pork was perfectly cooked.
Julie, your quail was too.
Keyma, your corn was fantastic.
Julie, your sauce was excellent.
It was neck and neck
but in the end,
Keyma...you won immunity.
Welcome to the top four.
KEYMA: Top four now.
I can't believe it.
That just only means that the way
I'm cooking at the moment
is above my expectations
and what I thought I would achieve
in this competition so far.
So I'm so proud of myself.
Well done, Keyma.
That means you get to relax tomorrow,
put your feet up
and revel in immunity.
But, you will need
to cheer these guys on.
Billie, Julie, Daniel and Sarah,
tomorrow may be our last day
in Tasmania
but it will also be the last day
for one of you in this competition.
So go home, have a good sleep
and come back focused and determined
to secure the spot that YOU deserve
in the top four.
Goodnight, guys.
Nice one, Keyma.
Well done, Keyma.
Thank you. Thanks.
Thanks, guys.
ANNOUNCER: Tomorrow night
on MasterChef Australia,
we say farewell
to one of our finest...
JULIE: If I'm the person
who's eliminated today,
obviously, I will be shattered.
But at the same time,
I'm very proud of what I've done.
BILLIE: But I've got
everything on the
go at the moment.
Oh, no!
That's hot oil!
Oh, no.
That could be it
for me.
..when Tasmania
serves up
a nail-biting
elimination.
JOCK: I think we're
gonna be judging
on the smallest
of flaws today.
That's definitely
a flaw.
Captions by Red Bee Media
(LAUGHS)
Their cooking was inspired...
KEYMA: I have a really special dish
and I think today is the day.
DANIEL: It's the most incredible
feeling when you get pushed
and a bit of pressure
and what your brain can do.
..serving up spectacular dishes.
MEL: It is phenomenal!
JOCK: THEY are killer.
Ye-e-es!
But it was time to say goodbye
to a MasterChef favourite.
ALVIN: It's been an honour
and privilege to be asked back.
JOCK: Give it up for Alvin,
everybody!
(ALL CHEER)
Tonight -
the top five are going all out...
SARAH: At this point
in the competition,
you can't afford any error.
..for the biggest advantage yet.
# 'Cause you're hot,
then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down
# You're wrong when it's right
# It's black and it's white
# We fight, we break up
# We kiss, we make up
# You're hot, then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down. #
JULIE: Today's an immunity cook
and here we are in Launceston,
on the banks of the River Tamar.
And I'm still just thrilled
to be here, in the top five
and in this beautiful place.
Good morning.
ALL: Morning!
Welcome to beautiful
and historic Launceston.
This city has just been named
a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.
Oh, wow.
Northern Tasmania has long been noted
for its world-class agriculture.
Its paddock-to-plate food is backed
by sustainable wineries and farms.
And one of those farms
grows the ingredient that will form
the basis of your challenge today.
And that is...
..truffles!
ANDY: Yeah. it is!
JOCK: Yes, it is!
(ALL CHEER)
This region produces some of
the best truffles in the world.
So...
..we're gonna send you off to
the truffle farm nearby to meet Anna
and you are gonna hunt
your very own truffles
that you'll cook with
later on in the challenge.
How good's that?
Truffles? Oh, my God.
I don't cook with truffles at all.
I have dishes in, you know,
fancy restaurants with truffles
and I like them but...
..they're not even a thing
in Venezuela.
Great.
Wow.
So, get outta here.
We'll see you soon.
Alright.
Bye!
See ya. Good luck.
I am so excited
to go truffle hunting.
I think this is gonna be
a really fun experience
and something that we would not
usually get to do.
This scenery is picturesque.
We've got these rolling hills and
beautiful shades of green and trees
and it feels like a bit
of a fairytale.
DANIEL: Oh, the dogs!
The dogs!
Hi, guys!
(DOGS BARK)
Sorry about the welcoming party.
(ALL GREET EXCITEDLY)
They're not gonna do any work now
'cause they've got
all these free pats. (CHUCKLES)
Well, sorry. Neither are we,
now that we've got dogs to pat.
(LAUGHS)
Welcome to the farm.
ALL: Thank you.
I'm Anna. You've met the crew.
Here we've got Douglas,
our golden labrador.
He's our chief hunter.
Hi, Douglas.
Then we've got Poppy here
and then we've got Peggy,
who is our resident
puppy in training.
(ALL SIGH)
I'm very fortunate that I've grown up
here at the truffle farm.
My parents were actually the pioneers
of the truffle industry
within Australia
so I've been around truffles
since day dot.
Um, probably don't know how to cook
with them as well as you guys do.
But today, gonna take you guys
for a bit of a hunt, put you to work,
get you nice and grubby, hopefully.
So, if you guys would like
to come with me
and we'll go and see
what we can find.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
(CHUCKLES)
JULIE: Douglas!
We gotta go find some stuff.
(GIGGLES) So cute!
Come on, Douglas!
I never even had fresh truffles
before coming here.
So now we're gonna go
and farm our own. It's incredible.
BILLIE: Ooh, baskets!
And a trowel.
I mean, look at me,
I've got a bloody sweater on,
like, I'm gonna go truffle farming.
What's happened to me?
(CHUCKLES)
Poppy, sit.
Good girl. Let's go hunting.
Let's go hunting. Good boy.
Good girl. Good girl.
Where's the truffle?
Let's find. Let's find.
Where is it? Let's find it.
I'm just in awe,
watching what Anna's doing
and how she's controlling these dogs
and telling them to go and hunt
and they know exactly
what she's telling them to do.
Can you show me where, please?
It makes me wanna be
a truffle farmer.
Good girl. Stop. Thank you.
SARAH: Oh, my gosh.
Clever girl.
Wow.
Ooh, you rolled him out. Well done.
Oh, my gosh. Wow!
(ALL LAUGH)
Yes!
Oh, it smells incredible.
And there is actually
another one there.
Another one! Go, Billie.
Go for it.
Oh, you got it.
Yes!
Digging them up out of the ground
and getting your hands dirty,
getting right down
under that truffle,
it's such a cool feeling.
Amazing.
And I think I wanna do a dessert.
Can we go this way, please?
(GASPS) Can we go this way, please?
Douglas is onto another one.
Go, Dan.
Oh, yes.
Good boy. Come here. Good boy.
Where on here. (LAUGHS)
Dan, that's the fun part.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Oh, my God! Stop!
No way.
You take your time with that one,
Dan. We don't wanna be breaking him.
JULIE: Daniel starts digging up
this truffle
and it just keeps going and going.
Gentle. Gentle.
Use your fairy fingers, Dan.
SARAH: That is insane.
If you give it a bit of a wobble.
Yep, now...
(GASPS)
..work it out.
(ALL EXCLAIM AND LAUGH)
That's amazing!
It's like the size of a human head.
That is huge!
(LAUGHS)
It's massive and I don't know
what the going rate for truffles is
but...I know they're expensive
and I've got the biggest one.
BILLIE: Still soft?
SARAH: Yeah, soft! (LAUGHS)
You've done very well.
I think you guys have enough
to cook with
and you probably cleaned me out
for the day.
(ALL LAUGH)
So I hope they serve you well
and please do them justice for me,
that'd be great.
Um, plus, uh...
(PEGGY BARKS)
Oop.
BILLIE: Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for having us.
Oh, no worry at all.
Shall I go see
what I've got left in here?
(ALL LAUGH)
JULIE: Dug up a nugget, like Eureka!
DANIEL: Dug up a...
Yeah, that's what it felt...
(LAUGHS)
Mate. Black gold.
Black gold.
Can't wait to cook with them.
(LAUGHS)
BILLIE: Seriously, best day ever.
I know! (LAUGHS)
JOCK: Welcome back, guys!
ALL: Thanks!
Got some shiny presents.
I know.
Ooh.
Nice harvest.
Nice harvest.
Oh, wow!
They smell - and they look -
brilliant.
Look at Dan's!
DANIEL: Have a go at that stonker.
What?!
(ALL LAUGH)
No... Come on, make your way
to your benches. Let's go.
Alright.
Thank you.
Yep.
Hi. (CHUCKLES)
Alright, guys, listen up,
you've got 60 minutes
to cook your truffle dish.
And we don't want just truffle
to be on the plate,
we want it to elevate your dish.
Take it from good to gourmet.
The pantry is packed full of fresh
produce from north-west Tasmania.
It's one of Australia's
best food bowls.
So, use it to your advantage.
The best dish cooked today
will win its maker immunity
from tomorrow's elimination.
And your 60 minutes...
..starts now.
(JUDGES CLAP)
JULIE: It's lovely enough to cook
with something as beautiful
as truffles...
..but it's not the easiest task.
(CHUCKLES)
Oop!
SARAH: Cooking with truffles
can be a little bit tough
because it's such a strong flavour
and it's such
a delicate ingredient...
Can I just get past...? Sorry.
..that you really need to hero it
and let it sing
without, you know,
overcomplicating the dish.
BILLIE: I think getting that perfect
flavour balance of truffle is key.
It could be overpowering if there
was too much truffle flavour.
So I think getting the balance right
will be important.
Um, I'm gonna go round you, Dan.
Excuse me.
Yep.
Tell me someone whose comfort zone
this is in.
Because for someone to have a recipe
where they can elevate a dish
with truffles willy nilly,
they would have to be a millionaire.
"Let me just go grab my fresh truffle
out of the fridge."
Like, no-one's got that
laying around. (CHUCKLES)
They're expensive-as.
I am making truffled potatoes.
When I think of truffles, for me,
I wanna eat it with something
that just really carries
the flavour of the truffles and,
yeah, potatoes do that the best.
So I've got, um, the potato fondant.
I'm doing potato aligot,
it's like a kind of cheesy mash,
and a light, airy potato on top.
In my mind, I can envision this dish
being an immunity-winning dish.
It's just all about
nailing all of these elements.
60 minutes to bring us
a doozy truffle dish but, I mean,
what also helps them
is this Rolls-Royce of pantry
from the north-west of Tasmania.
Like, come on,
does it get any better than this?!
You know, cheeses, pumpkin,
mushrooms, potatoes.
All of that wine and cider as well.
Like, it is literally stocked
with Tassie's finest.
This is why you come to Tassie - to
get your hands on produce like this.
Hundred percent, the north-west
is known for its great produce
and basically, what we've done is
pick the very best of it...
(CHUCKLES)
..stick it in a pantry
and now they've got 60 minutes
to bring us an epic dish.
How can it not be epic...
I know.
..with such amazing produce.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a once-in-a-lifetime
cook's dream.
These are going to be
brilliant dishes, I know it.
Hands up if you love truffles.
Yeah, two hands.
Two hands.
Right, what are you cooking?
Tassie's known for its southern rock
so I think I'd just luxe it up
and go southern rock lobster.
I think I'd be pretty simple
with the lobster.
Maybe poach it in some butter
and cider.
Make a sauce
out of all the head meat
and then go hard as I possibly could
with the truffle over the top.
Yum.
Show off the lobster,
show off the truffle,
two of Tassie's best ingredients
combined.
Yep.
Gotta be a winner.
Nice. Mel, what would you cook?
Uh, look, I am really
into the idea of a luxe...
A fully loaded omelette.
I love the crays as well
so crays, egg, truffle,
just beautiful flavours together.
Very simple.
I wouldn't try to do any more
than that.
But when you have such luxurious
ingredients in their raw form here,
you don't need to do much
to really elevate.
What about you?
I'd be cooking, um,
little truffle quails.
Good news is,
I think there's a little gap there
where a couple of quail
have been taken.
Ooh. Julie has them.
So we could be seeing some quail.
Yes, I can see Julie Goodwin
breaking down a quail right now.
Argh! (CHUCKLES)
Back in season one,
I had the enormous privilege
of cooking at the Hong Kong
Jockey Club with Donovan Cooke...
You ready?
Yep.
(GASPS)
..and he had a dish on the menu
that was pigeon
with truffles and celeriac.
Wow. It's beautiful.
So, my dish is inspired by that.
Obviously, I don't have pigeon
so I'm gonna use quail.
I'm gonna make
a truffled celeriac puree
with truffle-stuffed quail breast.
I can't remember any of the recipes
that I cooked on that day
but I hope I do the flavours
justice.
The first thing I'm cooking
is the celeriac puree.
I'm gonna use truffle
in the celeriac puree
by pureeing up the celeriac
and then putting
a load of truffle into it.
I'm also gonna use truffle
in the quail breast.
I'm going for the top dish today.
I really, really want immunity.
It's so important
at this stage of the game.
The fewer of us there are,
the higher the odds are that you're
the one that's going home next.
And I haven't raised my head to
look at the finish line too often
'cause I'm too focused on what's
in front of me on my kitchen bench.
But when I do lift my head up
and look at the finish line,
it's getting closer and closer
and the idea of reaching it,
it's pretty appealing.
KEYMA: I am so nervous
about this challenge.
I don't cook with truffles at all.
At the moment,
I don't know what to do.
I'm just going by my gut.
I know that truffle
goes with creamy stuff
so I'm thinking
that the creaminess of corn
could lean towards
the truffle flavour and...
..the first thing that comes
to my mind is my cachapas.
And I'm thinking flavours of cachapas
with truffles.
I've already made it here
in the kitchen.
(ANDY CHORTLES)
This is a very emblematic dish
in Venezuela.
It's called cachapas.
Keyma, beautiful dish.
Please make it again
because I really enjoyed it.
Well done.
But I'm thinking how to actually grab
those flavours
and just put it into something
a little bit more refined,
a little bit more truffle-forward.
(LAUGHS)
I'm going to do
two different textures of corn -
creamed corn
and the second texture will be, like,
a really heavily grilled corn,
which I'm planning to grill
on the hibachi.
Keyma.
Hello. How are you?
What's your dish?
I'm cooking, like,
an interpretation of a cachapas.
At the beginning of your experience
here in MasterChef,
we've seen cachapas before.
Yep.
I have a feeling this is going to be
entirely different.
They're gonna just take it to the
next level and make it really fancy
and nice to eat.
A bit more... A lot more refined,
not a bit.
(LAUGHS) A lot more refined.
Talk to me about your relationship
with truffles.
Uh, none. Zero.
I've eaten them
but I've never cooked with them.
The presence of the truffles on
your dish need to make your dish
better than the dish would be
if it didn't have truffles.
Yep.
This is immunity you want.
You want this one.
Yes. Yes, totally.
Thank you.
Even though I have made cachapas
several times before,
I've never cooked with truffles
at all
so I don't know
how is this gonna come together.
I'm really worried.
45 minutes to go.
JOCK: Let's go.
I gotta have a look at this thing.
(CHUCKLES)
You have got to be kidding me.
MEL: Whoa!
Can you believe you found that?
490 gram.
It's half a kilo of truffle!
(LAUGHS)
Very impressive.
I've got my massive truffle
and I'm just sort of thinking
how can I make something really flash
with a bunch of truffles.
Mum used to make cabbage gratin.
Literally, like, cabbage
baked with cheese and bechamel
and I'm thinking, "Well,
that could be pretty bougie
"with truffles added to it."
So I'm gonna make that.
I'm gonna sear my cabbage a little
bit and throw that into the oven
so it bakes and goes nice and soft.
And then, I've gotta get started
on my very luxe spicy bechamel cheese
sauce with truffles all through that.
OK, um...
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Get it in there.
Can't even get it in my pocket,
it's that big.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my God,
finding those truffles today
was just one of the best
experiences I've ever had.
I had the best time.
But yeah, I've sort of been thinking
on the way back of what to make
and the dish is a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse
and a chocolate crumb.
So, I don't just wanna do any old
sort of truffle ice-cream dessert
with a chocolate crumb,
I wanna make it more
about what we did today
and make it actually look like
a truffle sitting on that dirt
that we pulled it out of today.
So, the first thing I start on
is this truffle ice-cream.
I don't want this truffle ice-cream
to be overly sweet.
I think using creme fraiche will
give it a little bit of acidity
and hopefully carry the truffle
flavour a little better.
Coming back to this season
of MasterChef,
I didn't really think that
savoury desserts would be my thing
but I've found myself cooking them
quite often
and really, really enjoying it.
Unfortunately,
they don't always hit the mark.
But today, I wanna be presenting
the judges a winning dish.
I feel really happy today
so if I get immunity,
I'll just be over the moon.
Happy with that. Happy with that.
I've got my truffled celeriac puree
done.
I've got my jus bubbling away there,
tastes really good,
it'll only get richer as it reduces,
so I'm happy with that.
And so now, I'm using truffle
in the quail breast.
It'll be truffly.
# Every day I'm truffling. #
So, these quails are so tiny
that I don't want to use
the breast as a singular thing
because it'll overcook.
So I'm going to double the breast
over and put truffle in between,
wrap it up in the skin
that's still attached to it,
then put shaved truffle all over it,
and put guanciale,
which is very thinly sliced pork fat,
all the way around it
so the heat's not gonna get in
and ruin that truffle.
Julie.
I'm smelling
some really good smells here.
(LAUGHS)
What's the dish?
Truffled quail
with truffled celeriac puree.
Some vincotto glazed grapes
and walnuts.
Beautiful. So talk me
through your elements of truffle.
In the celeriac puree, I've put
fresh truffle in at the end.
Great.
Tastes great.
Beautiful.
And then inside the quail,
so, I've removed the double breast
from the quail
and wrapped it around some truffle.
Stuffed. Love it.
Then I'm putting it on the outside,
I'm gonna wrap it in some guanciale
and panfry that.
Yes!
'Cause, you know,
why not have some pork fat?
Exactly.
Think if I pull off every element,
the way I see it in my head,
I think I have a chance
at this immunity.
KEYMA: The challenge today
is truffles.
I'm so nervous
but I'm just gonna trust my gut
and grate some truffles
in the cream corn
so it just infuses the whole puree.
I'm just hoping it works.
I taste a little bit.
Yeah, they're delicious.
It's like a match. (CHUCKLES)
Now that I know corn and truffle
goes so well together,
I think my dish is gonna work.
Dan?
Can I borrow the truffle oil?
Yep.
Normally, cachapas
is served with cheese and pork
so I wanna incorporate the pork
flavour into the whole dish
because I know that corn and pork
go together.
So, I'm hoping
that truffles and pork go together
so all of it is a match
made in heaven, I guess.
SARAH: So, for potato aligot,
once my potatoes are soft
and, you know, really tender,
they need to go through a drum sieve.
And they get mixed
with a lot of cheese.
It's like a serious workout.
Oh, God, my arm's sore!
(CHUCKLES)
I need your muscles, Dan.
(LAUGHS)
I'm whisking this
as hard as I can to make it creamy
and just to really bring out
the stringiness in that cheese.
JOCK: Sarah.
ANDY: Hey, Sarah.
Hi.
So, it's a dish all about potatoes.
Yes. It is.
So...pommes aligot,
the potato fondant
and then a light, airy potato
over the top.
So...potatoes on top of potatoes.
Yep.
With some more potatoes.
Yep. Lots of potato.
Bit of cheese and the truffle...?
Yeah, I wanna know
where's the truffle?
Yeah.
So, I put a bit of truffle vinegar
in here
and it's all about
the fresh truffle over the top.
If there's one day to go as hard as
you possibly want with truffle...
Yeah.
..it is today.
And at the moment,
there's, like, not even a waft.
You plucked that thing
out of the earth not long ago...
Yep.
..like, use it.
We're not charging you
for the truffles.
It's alright, you're not getting
an invoice. Use it!
Yep.
Get into them!
Yep.
Come on.
Use it.
OK.
I want the judges
to be happy with the dish.
Because ultimately,
I want to be safe today.
I want this dish to win.
And if they're not happy
with my elements,
you know, how am I going to be able
to make this a winning dish?
(SIGHS)
30 minutes to go! Come on!
MEL: Come on!
Today, I'm making a roasted cabbage
with a truffle and gruyere bechamel.
Bechamel has come together nicely.
Nice and thick. Nice and cheesy.
Mustard works really well in there.
So, I'm really happy with that,
to be honest.
My cabbage is cooking really well.
Oh, that's looking good.
This is one of those things
that you...
..well, probably never get to do
is go and pick a truffle
and then cook a dish with it with
the beautiful backdrop of Launceston.
Oh, look at
that bloody truffle goodness!
I'll be writing that one down
in the 'Cool Thing's I've Done
in Daniel's Life.' (CHUCKLES)
If there's ever a day
to go and burn a...
mountain-load of money on truffle,
today's the day, so I'm taking
my cabbage out of the oven
and I'm opening up the leaves
and I'm just...
..sprinkling in truffle in between
these leaves of cabbage, like...
(CHUCKLES)
Don't be shy with the truffles.
If it's gonna be a day where you use
truffle, then damn well use truffle.
There's so much truffle
in this thing, hey.
This is gonna be
the most bougiest cabbage ever.
Hey? (CHUCKLES)
This cabbage is, like,
worth more than my damn mortgage.
Having a win, Billie?
Huh?
Having a win?
Having a win?
Yeah.
Um...
..not losing just yet.
Yeah, I'm feeling good about
how everything is progressing.
I've got my truffle ice-cream
in the machine.
I'm happy with that.
And I need to finish off
the chocolate mousse
and the chocolate soil next.
BOTH: Billie.
Hi.
ANDY: What's going on?
Talk to me about your dish.
The dish is a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse
and a chocolate crumb.
Wanna make it look like a truffle
sitting on dirt.
Taking inspiration
from where we were this morning
and getting them
straight out of the ground,
that was probably one of the best
things I've ever done in my life.
Nice.
Amazing.
Are we truffle-hunting in a bowl?
Is that what's happening?
Yeah.
Your dish sounds fantastic.
This could be killer.
It could be.
If you balance, like,
the sweetness with the savoury
and then the truffle
just powering through every layer.
Mm-hm.
Like, this could be epic.
Jock and Andy seem pretty excited
by my dish...
And you're the only dessert
in the kitchen today as well, so...
Yeah.
You've got a pretty good chance
of standing out.
All you've gotta do is nail it,
right?
Yeah.
Hey, the door's open.
Yes.
The door is open.
Just walk through it.
Fill it with truffle.
..and that definitely gives me
a boost of confidence.
But...
..to have the chance
to win immunity,
I just need to make sure I get
the balance of flavours 100% right
on this dish.
15 minutes, gang.
15 to go.
Let's go!
KEYMA: Now that I'm starting
to feel confident with truffles,
I want to make sure
that truffle flavour
shines through the whole dish.
So, I'm gonna make
a truffle-heavy sauce
to tie the whole dish together.
I have my pork in the oven,
I have my roasted corn,
so I need to pull it all together.
So today, more than, ever,
immunity is really, really important.
I'm cooking against the best
of the best in this kitchen.
And I may have to bring my A-game.
Um, the judges
are after a lot of truffles.
So...I think the key
is to load it up.
I feel the judges really want me
to bring home the truffles
with this dish
and my intention was more
to just load it on the top
of that pillowy cream potato.
So, I think I need to reinforce
that truffle flavour.
But soon as I start adding
more truffles to my aligot,
it seems to split.
Oh, God!
Oh. Yikes.
Something's reacting
and it's just not got that beautiful
stringiness that it had before.
Oh, my God, what a mess.
It was perfect,
it was gonna be fine.
But then it's gone a bit grainy
when I added more truffle.
At this point in the competition,
I can't afford any error
in an element.
But I don't have time
to start again.
(SIGHS) Yi-yi-yi.
Five cooks at the top of their game,
not a bad dish amongst them.
Dan, roast cabbage,
truffle cheese sauce - yum.
Sarah, truffle potatoes - delicious.
Billie - dessert.
Keyma, remember her cachapas -
the corn pancake -
modern interpretation of,
very excited.
And then lastly,
Julie is doing what you would do -
quail, stuffing the truffle
in the quail, beautiful jus.
She is going hard out
to win this thing,
she really wants it and I think she
really could with a dish like that
if she gets everything perfect.
I've got my little quail breasts
stuffed and wrapped.
So now it's time to start
panfrying my quail.
I need to cook them
on a very quick heat
because I wanna get some colour
on the outside
without it cooking
all the way through.
And it's gonna cook through
pretty quickly.
That's sort of my scariest thing
is getting the cook on those right.
I want them to be medium rare.
The biggest risk factor of all
is overcooking it.
Ah!
Because...it can overcook
very, very easily.
Let's face it, if the quail
doesn't work out on this dish,
I can kiss immunity goodbye.
BILLIE: So, I've just made
my truffle truffle,
which is, like, the, um, truffle
but it's actually chocolate mousse.
So the coating on the outside
has the truffle, cocoa
and some crystallised chocolate.
So, yeah, I was hoping it would turn
really dark and it has,
so, really happy with that.
I'm happy with the flavours
so far in this dish.
The ice-cream...
..is very strong
with that truffle flavour.
The chocolate mousse is just that
beautiful rich chocolate flavour.
And knowing the judges were really
happy with my idea for this dish,
yeah, I feel like it puts me
in a pretty good position
to maybe get that immunity.
I've just gotta finish off this soil
then I'm done.
We want to see five bougie dishes
in five minutes!
Come on!
Bring us bougie!
Yeah.
(CHUCKLES)
JULIE: I'm frying off
my quail breast.
The biggest risk factor of all
is overcooking it.
So I don't leave it any longer, I get
it out, I get it off that hot pan
and set it aside to rest.
Julie Goodwin.
Hello, Julie.
Hello.
Is that the little quail guys?
Yeah, it's the double breast
wrapped around some truffle
and then wrapped in some guanciale.
Is immunity yours?
I hope so. I'm trying for it.
Back-to-back.
Yeah.
Could she go back-to-back?
I'd love to go back to back.
Come on, girl.
Thank you.
Good luck.
It's the moment of truth.
It's time for a little prayer.
Oh, my God,
please don't be overcooked.
It's medium rare and it's got that
beautiful line of pure truffle
through the middle.
Beautiful.
BILLIE: I'm really happy
with this dish.
The truffle has actually worked out
much better than I thought it would.
And the ice-cream is nice and creamy
and it's all sitting on this
sort of crunchy chocolate soil.
It looks like the truffle that I
pulled out of the dirt this morning,
so I'm quite excited
to show that to the judges.
DANIEL: My dish is ugly, I know that,
but it's a really tasty
piece of cabbage.
And I think the truffles
is what makes it better.
So, I think
I've definitely hit the brief,
I've elevated the dish with truffles.
Seriously, if the judge say
I haven't used enough truffle, man,
like, they need to see the bill.
There's a lot of truffle
in that thing. Like...
..it's almost more truffle
than it is cabbage at the moment.
Bougie cabbage.
30 secoooonds!
JOCK: Come on, guys!
Whoo!
KEYMA: I'm plating
with 30 seconds to go.
I'm just adding some of
the cream corn puree underneath.
The three medallions of pork loin.
The cream corn round the sides
and then truffle butter.
It needs more truffles.
It's a truffle challenge, isn't it?
So I'm gonna shave more truffles
on top.
10!
JUDGES: 9, 8, 7,
6, 5, 4,
3, 2, 1!
That's it!
(EXHALES)
Well done, trufflers.
BILLIE: How did you go, Miss?
Uh.
As good as I can be.
Good.
(CHUCKLES)
Crazy. That was crazy.
Well, truffles
was the order of the day
and we would like to see it
writ large across your dishes.
The prize for the best dish today -
the first spot in our top four.
The first dish we'd like to taste
belongs to Keyma.
If they wanted truffles...
truffles there are. (LAUGHS)
Keyma, what's the dish, please?
The dish is Flavours of Cachapas.
Which is a corn pancake.
We've seen cachapas before from you.
Yes.
This is a very different version
of that.
Very different.
Are you happy with the dish?
I'm happy with the dish.
And I think the flavour is there.
It's truffle-forward
and I really like it.
I hope you just...like it as well.
Keyma, I love the concept.
You know,
your little play on cachapas.
Brilliant cook on the pork.
Pork loin is such a hard one
to get right
and I don't think you could have
done that any better.
And it helps that it was
a really bloody good piece
of pork loin as well.
Thank you, Tassie.
(GIGGLES)
Um, the simplicity of
that charred corn was delicious.
I loved the pairing
of truffle and corn.
The pork is beautiful,
the spice rub really complements
the sweetness of the pork
and the charred corn as well gives it
that really nice deep caramelisation
that balances out the sweetness
of the creamed corn.
Keyma, it's like cachapas 2.0.
I really enjoyed it.
I think you did a great job of
capturing the spirit of that flavour
and feeling in the dish.
I really, really enjoyed this.
Great cooking on the pork,
fantastic.
And here we are again,
you've got another ingredient
that you haven't used before
but because your cooking
is at a level now
where you're able to draw on your
own gut feeling of what's right.
Isn't that amazing
that you can work with a product
you've never used before
and still create magic on a plate?
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you.
Well done.
Thank you.
Nice one, Keyma.
Great. Good work.
Well done.
Next up...with a big truffle
from a big man, it's Daniel.
Epic call-up, that, wasn't it?
I would love to win immunity.
I want them to be like,
"OK, damn, this is a pretty nice
piece of cabbage.
"Tastes like truffles."
But...we just have to wait and see.
Applications for next season
are now open.
Go on, get on it!
Daniel, what did you cook?
I made a roasted cabbage with
a truffle and gruyere bechamel.
Daniel, good news, delicious, mate.
The flavour you got into
that bechamel is, like, topnotch.
You know, it's rich,
it's deep, it's salty.
The funk that the truffle brings
is definitely there.
Um, so you massively hit the brief
with that element alone.
I really enjoyed the little pieces
of the crispy speck on top.
That with the purple sauerkraut
and the bechamel,
that's when it really lit up.
Yep.
The only problem I've got is just
the seasoning on the cabbage.
It could have done with
a heap more salt.
Oh, OK.
You think that you're seasoning it,
like aggressively...
(CHUCKLES)
But, like, you've gotta think,
the cabbage is, like, that thick
so you've really gotta
make an effort
of driving the seasoning in somehow.
Yeah.
We'll see if the seasoning
on the cabbage lets you down
or if it gets you home.
You never know.
Oh, thanks, Andy, cheers.
That was a really delicious
bite of food, Daniel.
(CHUCKLES) Oh, cool.
And I'm really glad
that the way Jock cut it up,
we got to have a little bit
of everything from the core
all the way through to the leaves
because the gradiation of flavours
from sweet all the way through
to caramelised
is really what we love
about a roasted cabbage.
It has just a real contrast
of degrees of flavour,
which is really, really nice.
You've put a lot of truffles
through it.
There's a lot of truffle going on,
there's a lot of fragrance
and flavour.
It's exactly what you needed
to do today.
It's not a perfect dish but it's
definitely vying for immunity.
Thanks, guys. Cheers.
Well done.
It's good to know
I'm thinking on the right track.
Yeah, yeah.
Next up, it's Sarah.
I'm really happy with the flavours
of my dish
and I really love the different
plays on potato and truffle
that I've got throughout the dish.
I'm really concerned
about the aligot.
The flavour is there but the texture
is just not how I wanted it to be.
Sarah, what's the dish, please?
I have made truffle potatoes.
Sarah, um, I've got no issue
with the flavours.
But the texture, it just wasn't
as good as it could have been.
Mmm.
Sound idea, really sound idea
and ambitious,
so that's a really good thing
that you should hold onto.
Unfortunately, the execution wasn't
commensurate with what you needed
to be able to achieve.
If you'd nailed the texture
of the aligot,
it would have been
absolutely vying for immunity.
Yep.
Sarah, we want you to succeed.
That's the biggest thing here.
Yes. Thank you, Sarah.
Next up - Billie.
I want the judges to get
that really rich truffle flavour
from the ice-cream and then the
chocolate and the hazelnut flavours,
I want just to sort of complement
that main event,
which is the truffle ice-cream.
Ooh!
It has to be really
truffled flavoured.
Otherwise it would just be
a plain vanilla ice-cream
with a chocolate mousse.
Billie, what's the dish?
It's a truffle ice-cream
with a chocolate truffle.
Can I just say
that looks really, really good.
Thanks. Thank you.
You were thinking about this
while you were truffle hunting?
Yeah. Well, it was such
a cool experience to do that
and get your hands in the dirt
and actually do it.
I loved it.
Let's try it.
It was a genius dessert.
Because as you're crunching through
that crumb,
I can imagine walking down
the gravel, poplar-lined driveway
of your truffle farm.
I could see it.
Yeah.
Your mousse - texture is fantastic,
the flavour is brilliant.
Billie...creme fraiche ice-cream,
it's got acidity,
texture was beautiful,
it was fantastic.
And then, you know, you're sort of
chocolate soil guy down the bottom.
Genius dessert, looked fantastic,
all the elements were perfect...
..but the truffle.
Bugger.
You can taste it in the ice-cream
but as soon as you have
any of the chocolate components,
it very quickly disappears.
Big damn.
Billie!
Big damn!
Ohhhh!
Thank you, Billie.
Thank you, Billie.
Dammit!
The next truffle dish we'd like to
taste belongs to Julie Goodwin.
Sauce her up, Jules.
I want the judges
to experience a fine-dining dish
that smells of truffle,
that tastes of truffle.
I'm hoping with everything I have
that my dish
is gonna get me across the line
and keep me safe
from this next elimination.
(SIGHS)
It's quail
with celeriac and truffles.
Yum! This is quite sort of -
dare I say - fine dining for you.
(LAUGHS)
Is it?
It is a little bit
but I think of truffle
as kind of a fine-dining ingredient.
Yeah, right.
We're not shaving it over
our spaghetti bolognaise at home.
You aren't?
When I grow them myself,
I may do that.
It just feels like a luxury item
and I felt like I wanted to make
a luxury dish to go with that.
Let's taste it, guys.
Julie. I really enjoyed that.
The quail - brilliant job.
It was beautifully cooked.
It reeked of truffle. Amazing.
Your sauce work is fantastic.
Like, that's proper good.
Thank you.
Your celeriac puree
has let you down a little bit.
What you needed,
just to set that quail off
and make it sing
with that beautiful sauce
is for the puree to be,
like, creamy and silky.
I love the attention to detail
with the quail -
perfectly cooked, beautifully tender
with just those few slivers
of truffles through,
wrap the guanciale that not only
protected the quail
but also imbued it with moisture
and a smoky richness.
It was just a really smart move
on your behalf today.
And then the puree, I thought
celeriac and truffle,
both deeply earthy in their perfume,
best mates,
so the concept was really sound.
OK, so the way you achieved that
today
wasn't as perfect
as it could have been
but as it stands, it was a really
refined, truffly plate of food
and I think you did really well.
Thanks, Mel. Thank you.
The sauce is, like, unbelievable.
Sweet, sticky, salty, like,
it is so on point it's not funny
and the cook on the quail
was unbelievable.
Really well done.
Thank you.
Thanks, Julie.
Cheers.
Alright. (LAUGHS)
Great work.
May I just say how good is Tasmania?
Hunting for fresh truffles
and then cooking with them,
right here in the heart
of Launceston.
That's the kind of experience
you cannot get anywhere else
and one that will stay with you
for a very long time.
We wanted you to use those truffles
to elevate your dish,
win immunity and secure your place
in the top four.
And this was a tough decision for us.
Sarah, Billie, Daniel,
sorry, you won't be winning immunity
today.
Keyma, Julie...
..we really enjoyed both your dishes
and both of them used truffle
in an elevated way.
Keyma,
your pork was perfectly cooked.
Julie, your quail was too.
Keyma, your corn was fantastic.
Julie, your sauce was excellent.
It was neck and neck
but in the end,
Keyma...you won immunity.
Welcome to the top four.
KEYMA: Top four now.
I can't believe it.
That just only means that the way
I'm cooking at the moment
is above my expectations
and what I thought I would achieve
in this competition so far.
So I'm so proud of myself.
Well done, Keyma.
That means you get to relax tomorrow,
put your feet up
and revel in immunity.
But, you will need
to cheer these guys on.
Billie, Julie, Daniel and Sarah,
tomorrow may be our last day
in Tasmania
but it will also be the last day
for one of you in this competition.
So go home, have a good sleep
and come back focused and determined
to secure the spot that YOU deserve
in the top four.
Goodnight, guys.
Nice one, Keyma.
Well done, Keyma.
Thank you. Thanks.
Thanks, guys.
ANNOUNCER: Tomorrow night
on MasterChef Australia,
we say farewell
to one of our finest...
JULIE: If I'm the person
who's eliminated today,
obviously, I will be shattered.
But at the same time,
I'm very proud of what I've done.
BILLIE: But I've got
everything on the
go at the moment.
Oh, no!
That's hot oil!
Oh, no.
That could be it
for me.
..when Tasmania
serves up
a nail-biting
elimination.
JOCK: I think we're
gonna be judging
on the smallest
of flaws today.
That's definitely
a flaw.
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