BASINGSTOKE'S very own Masterchef winner, Chariya Khattiyot has celebrated victory in the acclaimed television cooking contest.
This gallery shows 15 photos of Chariya after she became the Masterchef 2023 champion. Click on the image at the top to scroll through and view the whole gallery.
It also highlights the winning menu, cooked to perfection by the master coffee roaster turned MasterChef.
The 40-year-old contestant lived in Farnborough during filming but now lives in Basingstoke.
She is the 19th amateur cook to claim the coveted title on BBC One’s prestigious cooking competition.
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Chariya triumphed at the end of eight exciting weeks of MasterChef culinary challenges, culminating in a cook-off against the remaining finalists; 41-year-old Anurag Aggarwal and 31-year-old Omar Foster.
She is pictured alongside the other finalists as well as judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.
Chariya’s winning menu consisted of a starter of Thai lotus tuille, filled with coconut jelly, fried king prawns, and pomelo fruit salad, flavoured with Honey, palm sugar and coconut.
Her main course was a traditional Northern Thai 'Khantoke' sharing platter of wagyu sirloin steak in hung lay curry sauce, minced lamb in a spicy tomato and shrimp paste, jackfruit and scallop salad, sticky rice and scallop crisp crackers.
Her dessert was Chariya's own take on strawberries and cream - a strawberry jelly and vanilla cremeux ring, filled with macerated strawberries in strawberry liqueur, pistachio sponge, strawberry shards and a strawberry and Thai basil sauce.
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