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Turquoise Team's Middle Eastern Family Feast

Name: Turquoise Team's Middle Eastern Family Feast
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 cup white vinegar; 2 tbsp caster sugar; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp sumac; 1 red onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 large onion, peeled & halved; 8 cloves garlic, peeled; 1 stick cinnamon; 1 ½ cups long grain rice; 200ml white wine; 3 cups vegetable stock; 3cm ginger, halved lengthways; ½ cup (70g) currants; 1 cup chopped parsley; ½ cup chopped dill; ½ cup chopped mint; ½ cup toasted pistachios, roughly chopped; 2 tsp salt; ½ cup Pickled Red Onions, to garnish; 1kg skinless chicken thighs; 1 cup natural yogurt; 6 cloves garlic, minced; 1 lemon, juiced; 1 tsp sumac; 1 tbsp honey; 1/2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp Aleppo pepper, plus extra for dipping; 1 lemon, quartered; 6 sprigs fresh mint, leaves roughly chopped, to garnish

MasterChef Australia

05 May 2026

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Serves

Components

Ingredients

Season

Ingredients

Pickled Red Onions

1 cupwhite vinegar

2 tbspcaster sugar

1/2 tspsalt

1/2 tspsumac

1red onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced

Herb Pilaf Rice

2 tbspolive oil

1large onion, peeled & halved

8 clovesgarlic, peeled

1 stickcinnamon

1 ½ cupslong grain rice

200mlwhite wine

3 cupsvegetable stock

3cmginger, halved lengthways

½ cup (70g)currants

1 cupchopped parsley

½ cupchopped dill

½ cupchopped mint

½ cuptoasted pistachios, roughly chopped

2 tspsalt

½ cupPickled Red Onions, to garnish

Middle Eastern Chicken Skewers

1kgskinless chicken thighs

1 cupnatural yogurt

6 clovesgarlic, minced

1lemon, juiced

1 tspsumac

1 tbsphoney

1/2 tspground cumin

1 tspAleppo pepper, plus extra for dipping

1lemon, quartered

6 sprigsfresh mint, leaves roughly chopped, to garnish

Middle Eastern Cauliflower Salad

1 headcauliflower, cut into florets

30golive oil

1 tspcurry powder

1 tspturmeric

1/2 tspground cumin

salt & pepper, to taste

Dressing

1 tspDijon mustard

1 tspsugar

1 tspcurry powder

1 clovegarlic, minced

1lemon, juiced

¼ cupolive oil

¼ cupcurrants

salt and pepper, to taste

Garnish

Pickled Red Onions

½ cupchopped parsley

½ cupchopped fresh mint

30groasted pistachios, roughly chopped

pomegranate seeds

Rib Eye Baharat Steak

1/2 tspground cinnamon

1/2 tspground nutmeg

1 tspAleppo pepper

1/2 tspground black pepper

1/2 tsppaprika

1/2 tspcumin

1 tspsalt

1 (about 500g)ribeye steak

1 tbsolive oil

60gunsalted butter

½ bunchfresh thyme

Baba Ganoush

2eggplants

1lemon, juiced

3 tbspolive oil

1 tbsptahini

2 clovesgarlic, peeled

¼ cupnatural yoghurt

salt and pepper, to taste

Tahini Yoghurt

2 tbsptahini

¾ cupnatural yoghurt

5 tbspolive oil, plus extra to garnish

6 clovesgarlic, peeled

1/2 lemonjuice

1 tbspextra virgin olive oil

½ tspsumac

1 tbspchopped fresh mint, to garnish

salt and pepper, to taste

Chewy Chocolate Meringue

150gegg whites

300gcaster sugar

4 tbspcocoa powder

70g70% dark chocolate, finely chopped

Pistachio Chantilly Cream

300gthickened cream

1 tbspicing sugar

1/8 tspsalt

100gpure pistachio paste

Pomegranate & Orange Glaze

1orange, juiced

1 tbsppomegranate molasses

Pavlova Garnish

2mandarins, peeled and sliced into cross-sections

1orange, peeled and sliced into cross-sections

15gpistachios

Method

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Tagged

CauliflowerEggplantTahiniPistachioMainDinner

Recipe by a MasterChef Australia contestant, Season 18. Originally published by Network 10 on 05 May 2026.

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