The Great British Baking Show ™
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Pomegranate and Toasted Rice Meringue Nests
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Sumayah: "I'm putting toasted rice powder into my meringue mix. It's normally used in Thai cuisine to thicken soups, but the flavor is really nice."
Sumayah: "For my filling, there is some honey, tarragon, pomegranate molasses and some cloves. I'm going to cook my apricot pieces in here. I just get random ideas. I just thought it would go nicely.
Voice-over: "Aiming to impress again. Samaya's packing in complex flavors. A walnut praline along with pomegranate cream and apricots poached in tarragon and honey will sit in meringue nests flavoured with cardamom and toasted rice powder."
Paul Hollywood: "This sounds interesting. It sounds really unusual. I mean, you're doing quite a lot in this."
Sumayah: "It's about getting the balance of flavors right. I had to tweak it quite a lot."
Prue Leith: "These meringue nests look incredible. It's like art."
Paul Hollywood: "They're absolutely exquisite. Well done."
Sumayah: "So it's a toasted rice meringue nest with honey, tarragon, apricots, then a creme with like a tiny bit of pomegranate molasses."
Paul Hollywood: "It's more savory than sweet. Doesn't identify as anything. It's trying to sort of find a way and it's sort of lost its way a little bit."
Prue Leith: "There's no doubt. There are lots and lots of different flavors in that. I love it."
Paul Hollywood: "I love the fact that it's not very sweet. I think that toasted rice flavor is fantastic. Well done."
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About The Great British Baking Show ™
The Great British Bake Off ™ (often abbreviated to Bake Off or GBBO and referred to in the United States as The Great British Baking Show ™) is a streamed British baking competition, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, hoping to impress the judges with their baking skills. One contestant in The Great British Baking Show ™ is eliminated in each round, and the winner is selected from the three contestants who reach the final.
The Great British Baking Show ™ operates on a weekly elimination process to find the best all-around baker from the contestants, who are all amateurs. In each episode, the bakers are given three challenges based on that week's theme: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper. The bakes are assessed by the judges who then choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a contestant is also eliminated. In the final round, three bakers are left and a winner is chosen from the three.
