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Dunbarton Blue Paniyaram with Braised Chicken Korma
Chef Rasika: "I got the Dunbarton Bleu, and it's not a traditional blue cheese. It has more cheddar notes in it, and it's nutty. The first nut that popped into my head is hazelnut."
Chef Rasika: "I grabbed chicken thighs for cheese and rice cakes with a chicken gravy. There's a South Indian rice cake called paniyaram. Basically, it's a fermented rice batter. This batter takes two days for fermentation, but I'm trying to push it for 2 hours."
Chef Rasika (presenting to judges): "I had the Dunbarton bleu cheese. It's a cheddar blue. So I did rice cake. It's called a panyarum. I folded the cheese in the batter of the rice cake. I made a braised chicken thigh korma."
Judges (behind the scenes)
"Smells beautiful."
"The Dunbarton with the rice cake on it? Gorgeous."
"Yeah."
"I thought that was good too."
"The rice cake, I thought was fantastic. I love the cashews and the hazelnuts. I love the herbs and all those really beautifully balanced spices."
"I liked it a lot. Yeah. I thought it carried well."
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