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Lamb Manti, Aleppo Butter
Cumin and paprika spiced lamb manti dumplings served with a roasted garlic yogurt, pickled sumac onions, Aleppo brown butter and a coriander parsley herb oil.
Anisha is a 26-year-old digital engineer who grew up in a Bengali household near Birmingham. Her dad was a restaurant chef.
Anisha: "Turkish lamb manti dumplings with a roasted garlic yogurt. My husband's Turkish Cypriot, so this is a little bit of a homage to him. I have put my South Asian techniques into the dumplings. I'm caramelising the onions with spices the way you would start a curry."
Anisha: "His name's Jhan."
Anna: "This is a love letter to Jhan."
Grace: "A manti dumpling is often stuffed with meat and spices, wrapped in a thin pastry, and either steamed or boiled. I want a real robust lamb flavour from the filling. And I expect that pastry wrap on the outside to be really thin."
Grace: "Your dumpling filling, there's a really rich, gorgeous flavour from the cumin, the garlic yogurt with sweet but undeniably we can really get that kind of balance of garlic flavour."
Anna: "The star of the show on this plate is the Aleppo brown butter. It's giving a really nice, hot, rich bite to the whole dish. Your dumpling casing is quite thick and because of that, it's quite hard to get to all that lovely lamb in the centre."
Anisha did not win an apron in this round.
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