MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbook [Hardcover]

The ulitmate guide to becoming aMasterChefin your own kitchen. 

You don't have to be a professional chef to make a gorgeous gourmet meal!MasterChefcontestants' dishes, exquisitely turned out under pressure, prove that any amateur cook can achieve excellence. Let MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbook help you make the leap from kitchen amateur to culinary master with tips and recipes from the show's most creative contestants and award-winning judges. Enjoy more than 100 delectable recipes & 50 gorgeous photographs. From tender venison medallions to over-the-top seared lobster with bourbon and shallots, from perfectly crisp pan-fried potatoes to a decadent apple caramel spice cake, these recipes will help broaden your food landscape and perfect your home-cooked classics.

With expert wine pairings from restaurateur andNew York Timesbestselling author Joe Bastianich and a foreword from Graham Elliot, an award-winning chef and Lollapalooza Culinary Director,MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbookis all you need to take the next step in your own culinary journey.MasterChef airs on FOX. The contestants and judges of Season 3 are the authors of MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbook.Chapter 1

Breakfasts

FRUIT CUP

The sheer variety of fruits in the bowl makes this fruit cup an elegant morning treat or even a wonderful dessert for later in the day. You can mix and match the fruits depending on what's fresh and available at your local market. Be sure to use equal proportions of all the fruits, cutting or slicing them into similarly shaped pieces, to keep your version true to the original recipe, with no one fruit predominating. If you can't find dragon fruit, try to add at least one dramatic fruit to mix it up a bit, such as carambola, also called star fruit.

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