What’s in Your Ultimate Chopped Basket?
by FN Dish Editor in Shows, January 21st, 2013
Three rounds, three different baskets and 12 out-of-this-world ingredients. Whether it’s Chopped Champions, All-Stars or regular-season episodes, that’s a lot of combinations to come up with.
So we’re asking this question: What would be included in your ultimate Chopped basket? Not something you’d want to receive, but something you’d give to a fellow competitor. Would there be two proteins? All sweets? Would you include one or two ingredients they’ve probably never heard of? It can be argued that the simplest ingredients like eggs, chicken, pasta and rice are sometimes the hardest.
Tell us what you’d choose in the comments below.
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Three rounds, three different baskets and 12 out-of-this-world ingredients. Whether it’s Chopped Champions, All-Stars or regular-season episodes, that’s a lot of combinations to come up with.
So we’re asking this question: What would be included in your ultimate Chopped basket? Not something you’d want to receive, but something you’d give to a fellow competitor. Would there be two proteins? All sweets? Would you include one or two ingredients they’ve probably never heard of? It can be argued that the simplest ingredients like eggs, chicken, pasta and rice are sometimes the hardest.
Tell us what you’d choose in the comments below.
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More posts from FN Dish Editor.
Tags: CHOPPED, chopped champions
I would like to see vegetarian cooks compete with all vegetarian ingredients sometime.
Appetizer: humus, strawberry twizzlers, bacon, elk velvet
Entrée: fallow deer, pickled onions, chick peas, veggie-mite
Dessert: jäger meister, Greek yogurt, pretzels, kiwi
I really enjoy the amateur episodes (ex. school cafeteria ladies, firefighters, etc). I think an episode with culinary students would be awesome, or with teens, or nutritionists/dietitians. A vegetarian episode would be great too. I also think that using more simple ingredients would really be best. Since they could make MANY dishes, it would really challenge the chefs minds into creating something interesting and different, because when you use odd ingredients, I find more chefs make similar things, making it not as interesting.
Appetizer: Canned black eyed peas, baby kale, prawns, lemoncello liquer
Dinner: Elk roast, pepper Jelly, White asparagus, instant potato flakes
Dessert: avocado, chocolate nibs, crystalized ginger, tortillas
appetizer: canned baked beans, quail eggs, popcorn flavored jellybeans, oyster mushrooms
main course: irn bru, artichokes, octopus, hot sauce
dessert: corn chips, lime curd, dark chocolate, bean sprouts