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Fried Pickled Cannolo with L'Express Steak Tartare
Fried Pickled Cannolo with L'Express Steak Tartare
Massimo: "I'm making a fried pickle cannolo with a classic French steak tartare. It's so risky doing a classic, especially when you have a beacon in the sky that you could compare it to."
Massimo: "I'm going to start rolling out my cannoli dough to do a test. The fried pickle cannolo. It's going to be the element that is going to have the wow factor of the dish."
Presenting to Judges:
Massimo: "I was inspired by a true Montreal classic, the steak tartare from L'Express. It's the best in the world. So we made a hybrid classic French tartare with a deconstructed hybrid of a canolo and a fried pickle."
Danny Garcia (winner of Top Chef Season 21 ™): "I voted for Massimo. You didn't shy away from the pickle and tasting the dough on its own, you definitely got some of that acidity from it. Showed a lot of restraint and also balanced the flavors really well. It was a beautiful dish."
At the end of this challenge, the two top dishes were both in the losing team, and so Massimo won the top dish in the winning team.
"The tartare, first of all, was an excellent tartare. It had flavor, it was seasoned well, it really delivered, and you really integrated the pickle at every level."
