CHILLING WITH THE TOP 3 SUE-ANN

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1 SPECIAL ISSUE Become a MasterChef at home CHILLING WITH THE TOP 3 SUE-ANN I gave up everything for this DEENA I m just an average Joe MANISHA It was a roller-coaster ride R45 50 FAB RECIPES All recipes tried & tested Jade s chocolate ganache PUT YOUR FEET UP, JUDGES! What their women cook for them CREAM OF THE CROP DISHES YOU LL WANT TO MASTER

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3 WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-in-chief Izelle Venter YOU editor Linda Pietersen Editor: Lifestyle Liezel Joubert Editor: MasterChef Creative director Mari van der Berg Editor: print brand extensions Joan van Zyl Senior copy editor Natalie Cavernelis Copy editors Barbara Mowatt, Pat Barton Design consultant Anton Sassenberg Chief designer Lynn Greeff Designers Stacey Heugh, Randall Arries Picture editor Rena Tiran Picture researcher Martinique Clayton Production manager Jacques du Plooy Reproduction Jéan Koegelenberg FOOD TEAM Editor Carmen Niehaus Assistants Esther Malan, Carmen Hendricks Styling Lisa Clark Pictures David Briers Production co-ordinator Christine Smith Administrative assistants Vilien-Miri Coetzee, Vanessa Holies 2012 Shine Limited. Shine, MasterChef and the MasterChef logo are registered trademarks of Shine Limited and used under licence. Based on a format Publishing. All Rights Reserved. SO, WHAT chicken breasts with feta, garlic and sun-dried tomatoes, dipping plating up with a light butternut mash and a salad of thinly sliced fennel bulb, watercress and pine nuts. Impressed? I have to say I am. Making dinner used to consist of tossing a few chicken pieces into a casserole with veggies and leaving it in the oven until done. Not that there s anything wrong with a casserole, of course anymore. Not after MasterChef. The Ilses, Khayas, Thyses and Lungis of the world have made me realise I too can rise to the occasion, even if I don t have Pete and tense challenges. (Those huddles, incidentally, would have made me paranoid if I d time.) Anyway, point is MasterChef South Africa changed the way I feel about food and I m not the only one (see what two other foodie converts say on page 113). And wasn t it great, the show? Week after week brave contestants sweated over hot stoves to produce dishes they d sometimes never heard of, let alone attempted (remember Jade and that chocolate gateau that refused to stay on the plate). And each week someone went home until only one was standing: Deena, the quiet, unassuming guy who always, when you think back, had something special. (see Andrew s mom s sponge pud on page 48), others a little more taxing (the Cape berry chocolate ganache with cardamom ice cream and pistachio brittle on page 96, for instance) but all are worth trying. Because if you can cook like a MasterChef, you can conquer the world. Okay, maybe not. However, you can become immensely popular and expand your circle of friends because an invitation to one of your dinner in the kitchen concocting cool creations with your chef s knife and pots and pans. Happy reading and cooking and eating. MEDIA24 WEEKLY MAGAZINES General manager Publisher Publication manager Circulation manager Subscription support National advertising CEO: Media24 CEO: Media24 magazines CFO: Media24 magazines General manager: markets Group circulation manager Charlene Beukes Nerisa Coetzee Deon van der Westhuizen Coenie Slabber Bianca Meeser (manager) , Chantal Rodgers Craig Nicholson (business manager) Liesel Bredenkamp (Jhb) Yvette Jones (Cape Town) Eugene Marais (KZN) Denise Wilkinson (direct sales) Elmarie Vermeulen (digital) Esmaré Weideman John Relihan Raj Lalbahadur Willem Breytenbach André Stander PUBLISHED BY MEDIA24 WEEKLY MAGAZINES. Printed by Paarl Media Cape. Distributed by On the Dot. All rights reserved. Reproduction without written permission of the editor is strictly prohibited. HEAD OFFICE 40 Heerengracht, Cape Town 8001 or PO Box 6210, Roggebaai Tel Fax JOHANNESBURG OFFICE 5 Protea Place, Protea Park, Sandown 2196 or PO Box , Sandton Tel , Fax you@you.co.za. Website MEDIA24 WEEKLY MAGAZINES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Enquiries about use of material you.com 28 JULY

4 5 RECIPE INDEX 6 THREE S COMPANY 15 MASTER CLASS 22 WE REMEMBER YOU WELL 26 WORDS OF WISDOM 30 IT S DEENA TIME! 34 TEN OF THE BEST 47 BEHIND EVERY MAN 54 BE MY GUEST 66 INTERNATIONAL FLAVOURS 78 PROBLEM SOLVED 90 KITCHEN KNOW-HOW 102 TALK THE TALK 106 THREE WAYS WITH A CHANGED ME addicts CONTENTS MASTERCHEF

5 RECIPE INDEX and orange vinaigrette in beer batter 91 Sam s trout ceviche with potato salad and chilli vinaigrette with red pepper purée 98 Thys herb and lemon hake 65 MEAT AND POULTRY 77 Adam Liaw s pork belly 60 Butter chicken 94 Berdina s roast chicken 49 Carol s lamb roast with roast potatoes 36 Deena s butter chicken with naan 33 Deena s lamb koftas in Napolitano sauce 84 Deena s parmesan and herb crusted chicken breast 53 Elize s rogan josh 71 John Torode s beef stew & dumplings 45 Lungi s pigs tails, chakalaka and ujeqe (steamed bread) 85 Lungi s roast chicken with polenta 37 Manisha s wors with mustard mash and crispy butternut 51 Margaret s pork trotters with samp and bean mash 85 Sarel s smoked chicken with vegetables 92 Sarel s leg of lamb 39 Sam s fried chicken 73 Tim Anderson s mocha steak with miso sauce SEAFOOD 33 croquettes with gribiche sauce gravy 42 Khaya s scallops in smoked salmon with rhubarb tart VEGETABLE DISHES 61 Daltjies (chilli bites) 88 Deena s oven-roasted vegetables and parsnip purée 65 Moroccan spiced eggplant 89 Sue-Ann s beetroot and goat s milk cheese samoosas SALADS, SIDES AND SOUPS 56 Avocado Ritz 57 Avocado and sweet potato salad 57 Avocado salad with toasted pine nuts, rocket, parmesan and balsamic syrup 60 Egg poola 41 Jade s summer minestrone soup with cheesy toasties 61 Sweet yellow rice SAUCES, DIPS AND DRESSINGS 64 Gorgonzola and grappa sauce 56 Guacamole 64 Salty sour lime vinaigrette 65 Tomato sauce with garlic and basil SOMETHING SWEET 48 Andrew s mom s sponge pudding 80 Deena s chocolate fondant with Amarula crème and caramelised pear 52 Elize s banoffee pie 67 Gordon Ramsay s ginger chocolate cheesecake 96 Jade s Cape berry chocolate ganache tart 100 Koeksisters and koesiesters 81 Manisha s poached pear, chocolate sauce and Amarula custard Margaret s malva pudding 43 Sarel s orange-infused chocolate pudding with vanilla custard 35 Thys pear and nectarine pastry 69 Whitney Miller s vanilla 88 MASTERCHEF

6 The three MasterChefs and their loved ones. From left: Lauren Artus, seated next to her best friend, Sue-Ann Allen (who came second), winner Deena Naidoo and his wife, Kathy, and Manisha Naidu (who came third) and her husband, Tony. THREE S COMPANY MASTERCHEF

7 TOP 3 (Turn over) Arranging for the Top 3 to be together in one place BY GILDA NARSIMDAS PICTURES JOHAN WILKE CREATIVE DIRECTION AND STYLING: PETRO DU TOIT. MAKEUP & HAIR: LOUISE BINGHAM FROM INFIDELS. PROPS: CULINARY EQUIPMENT COMPANY INFO CULINARY.CO.ZA. LE CREUSET POT: LE CREUSET TYGER VALLEY CENTRE MASTERCHEF

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9 TOP 3 MANISHA NAIDU SHE became so exhausted she once fell asleep standing up and admits there were days when all she wanted to do was go home. It was the most intense time of her life but if she could do it all again she would and she wouldn t change a thing. What I learnt about myself and others has been the most profound experience of my life, the 29-year-old mom says. It was a roller-coaster ride of epic proportions and it was over too soon. she starts, she admits, but she knew she was going to see this right through to the end and she very nearly did, bowing out just Husband Thoneshan or Tony as everyone calls him is immensely proud of his wife, even if MasterChef did mean they had to cut their dream honeymoon in India short. Thoneshan, who is head of strategy at Absa Manisha cooked her heart out in the MasterChef kitchen. He took care of 10-year-old Laila, Manisha s daughter from a previous marriage, and they missed her a lot, he confesses. The house was a different place, Tony (32) says. She is always making us laugh and she has this endless energy. Laila found long. As for me, I d just come from honeymoon where we were living and breathing each other and then suddenly she was gone. He was supportive of his wife s decision from the start. Manisha had initially been too scared to enter the competition so Tony, the entry forms on her behalf and drove her Her dish? A simple little concoction of langoustines poached in coriander and lemon with a ginger-infused broth and bisque-style sauce using coconut milk and mustard seeds. All this, she informs us, after she d just had surgery for a precancerous lesion on her ovary. I could barely stand up but I did it, she says proudly. Manisha has always enjoyed experiment- tions and how to make dishes texturally interesting. I ve never been a cookbook when I heard I d made it onto MasterChef, and then only because I thought I should own one. I think of cookbook cooking as a form of plagiarism by food. It s a case of somebody else s skill and my ability to read. Manisha and Tony were in Jodhpur, India, when the call came though saying she d made it to the next audition. The couple set off for home immediately and arrived back after 48 hours of travel, just in time for round two which Manisha sailed through as well (on the menu this time were decon- Tony wasn t surprised I made it but he was concerned about whether I would make it alone for a long period of time if I went further in the show, she admits. Manisha is not without her frailties. She suffered from bulimia and anorexia for years, was a self-mutilator and was so addicted to codeine she spent months in rehab. Between the ages of 18 and 25 my life was terrible, she says. Treatment and meeting the love of her life helped her overcome her problems. Tony may be her rock but he s had an issue of his own to deal with recently. During a power failure at their home in Sandton he was taking the garage door off remote control and onto manual when something ger became stuck in the mechanism. Long story short, the tip stayed behind, he says. TONY WASN T SURPRISED I MADE IT BUT HE WAS CON- CERNED ABOUT WHETHER I WOULD MAKE IT ALONE FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IF I WENT FURTHER IN THE SHOW We went to hospital where the doctors said the bone was too crushed for there to be any chance of the tip being reattached. the door. Manisha clucks sympathetically. She was glad she was around to help if she d still been in the show she probably wouldn t have minutes once a week to speak to our families, she says. It was tough. I d never been on my own before and I was close to breaking point at one stage. But I did it. It was a real test of strength and I know now I am better equipped to handle anything that comes my way. I know I m going to be okay. So what s next? Possibly a TV show, possibly a restaurant of my own, possibly a recipe book. What? A cookbook? Hey, it s okay if people plagiarise her food, she says just not the other way round. (Turn over) MASTERCHEF

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