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Irini Tzortzoglou
British-Greek chef
Irini Tzortzoglou is a Greek cook and winner of the MasterChef 2019 UK TV show competition.[1]
Her final challenge was to prepare a three-course meal for judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace. Tzortzoglou's winning menu consisted of:
- First course: Red mullet with a squid risotto, confit tomatoes, a rosemary and garlic sauce with bottarga (grey mullet roe) and an aged balsamic foam
- Main course: Griddled rosemary lamb chops with trahanas puree (cracked wheat cooked in soured milk), peas, confit herb tomatoes, pearl onions, crumbled feta and a lamb and tomato jus
- Dessert: Fig and hazelnut baklava with roasted honeyed fig topped with Chantilly cream and candied fig, a fig leaf ice-cream and syrup on a hazelnut crumble
Her first book Under the Olive Tree: Recipes from my Greek Kitchen was published on 23 July 2020.