
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.
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.





Appetizer: Fish eyes, collards, Butterfinger candies, and pawpaws
Entree: BBQ potato chips, octopus tentacles, cinnamon, acorn squash
Dessert: Broccoli, garlic, hot tamale candies, quinoa
App – salsify, tripe, chickory, grappa
Entree – canned whipped cream, lamb cheeks, Captain Crunch peanut butter cereal, plum wine
Dessert – hoisin, blood orange, bonito flakes, Butterfinger
Appetizer> sauerkraut, bacon, red chile peppers, fig newtons, bbq corn chips
Entree > strawberries, alligator steaks, zucchini, orzo, spiced rum
Dessert > granola bars, venison jerky, gherkins, blood oranges, butterscotch chips
My wife & I would like to see the following ingredients on a up comming show.
Appetizer: Clams & mussels in the shells, age goat cheese, premade bread dough, doran fruit.
Entree: Cactus candy, leeks must use the hold leek, live lobster, wasaba root.
Dessert: Fresh chestnuts, sugar cane, canned black olvies, anchovy paste.
Appetizer: Cibreo, Baalut, Kim Chee, and Beer-Jelly
Entree: Prairie Oysters, Cod Tongues, Vegemite, and Baby Mouse Wine
Dessert: Hu-Hu, Blood, Rose Ice Cream, and Salted Plum Suckers
I have never heard of some of these ingredients.
What is in the world is baby mouse wine?
Apps: wheat crackers, orange juice concentrate, crawfish, ground beef
Entree: light cream, bay scallops, pecan almond cereal, club soda
Dessert: pumpkin seeds, sour cream, coconut flakes, bottled green tea
appetizer – calamari, pesto, vodka, and prosciutto
Entree – skirt steak, poblano peppers, peanut oil, and fettucine
dessert – applesauce, graham crackers, raisins, and rice pudding
appetizer: vienna sausages,frozen tater tots, kale,worcestershire sauce
entree: venison tenderloin, apple cider vinegar, whole dill pickles,patt pan squash
dessert: cream cheese, graham crackers, canned anchovies
Israeli couscous, nopalitos, a jar of baby food liver, and whole nutmeg
cow tongue, pig feets not picled, yuca ,yautia star fruit papaya blood sausage, oat meal, puertorican sofrito, goat, tembleque , pasteles, gandules, mondongo cuajo, and tripe