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MasterChef: The Professionals: Series 2

Michel Roux Jr

Gregg Wallace

Monica Galetti

Ben Cook

Antonia Lloyd

MasterChef: The Professionals: Series 2: Episode 16

Episode 16

Series 2

BBC One - MasterChef: The Professionals, Series 2, Episode 16

Four chefs tackle a skills test of butterflying prawns and a palate test of making pesto.

Four chefs tackle a skills test of butterflying prawns and a palate test of making pesto, with the top three then required to make two dishes in 50 minutes.

Legendary double Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jnr and vegetable expert and Masterchef veteran Gregg Wallace are joined by Michel's trusted Sous Chef Monica Galetti as they hunt for a young chef who can make it to the top of the culinary world.

Four chefs face a nail-biting elimination round. In front of the watching Monica and Gregg, they have to earn the right to cook for the legendary Michel by demonstrating their culinary expertise with a skills test of butterflying prawns and a palate test of making pesto. 

The remaining three professionals then face the first of the two gruelling tests on which Michel and Gregg will judge them. They must make two dishes in 50 minutes from the central ingredient of mackerel. The second test, recreating two classic dishes, will be concluded in the next episode.

Only one of them can make it through to the quarter-final, moving a step closer to winning the title of Professional Masterchef.

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Hunting for a young chef who wants to make it to the top of the culinary world.

Chef Michel Roux Jnr and vegetable expert Gregg Wallace hunt for a young chef who wants to make it to the top of the culinary world.

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