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Pressure Cooker by Veneta Cucine, is a face-off between cooking enthusiasts in a two-kitchen set-up. We will have two teams, one from Delhi and the other from Mumbai pitted against each other, headed by super chefs Vicky Ratnani & Ritu Dalmia. They play the role of a mentor to their respective three member teams.
These home-style cooks are picked from Delhi and Mumbai to battle it out over 15 episodes. Each episode will have a brand new theme and a celebrity judge who will test the cooking and presentation skills of the contestants. Twists and turns at every stage of their cooking will not just make the challenge difficult but a whole lot of fun to watch! Premiers on January 17th, 9 pm | |
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The pressure gets delectable this week! Fruity, Nutty, Chocolatey says Maria, and yes, exactly as the name suggests, it's the dessert special this week! Chocolatier ZebaKohli sets both teams a yummy task of creating two lip smacking desserts.
The kitchen smells divine , the mentors look on with eagerness and the Pressure Cooker kitchen starts to resemble Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Which team will enjoy a sweet victory? Tune in to find out...only on Pressure Cooker! |
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With all the tension brewing on the sets of Pressure Cooker, it’s time the teams show each other some love, some affection! They are asked to cook up the perfect romantic menu, and the teams are gung-ho about it till they realize that there is a twist - the Teen Patti Twist. Sounds like a gamble? You bet it is! Watch this yummy episode of Pressure Cooker to find out what this gamble is all about, as Cooking Captains Shazmeen and Kaveri conjure up some love-ly dishes under the eagle eye of the Italian Diva, Ritu Dalmia, herself! Judge for the day, Rahul Akerkar does his bit to be lenient as he grants one of the teams extra time to plate their missing dish. Does the other team think this is fair? |
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Five weeks in the Pressure Cooker kitchen and Mumbai is way ahead in the game. Will fortune favour them in this episode? Only fate will tell! In this episode of Pressure Cooker, the mentors of both teams turn the fortune wheel to find out what their teams have to cook with. It's a match between Arun and Shazmeen, the stars of their teams. Will Arun be able to repeat his success and get his team a much needed win? It all depends on Celeb Judge Pallav Singhal, who has a few surprises up his sleeve. To catch all this and more, watch Pressure Cooker on NDTV Good Times! |
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Action Replay: This episode the Pressure takes on an international flavour. The teams get only 30 seconds to see how the delightfully colourful Spanish Paella is made and then have to replicate the recipe, step by step! And so begins a task that the teams discover is not as easy as it looks. As one team flounders and loses its way, the other one is an example of teamwork and harmony as they churn out a fantastic Paella. Judging this nail-biting week is none other than the young Nikhil Chib. |
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Its week 2 and the pressure is on! Team Delhi & team Mumbai are given the task of cooking multiple dishes with only 1 ingredient. As the teams struggle to come up with something innovative, the mentors question the rules and controversies boil over. Catch all this action and more only on Pressure Cooker! |
The first episode sets the pace for all that is to come. Team Delhi, made up of a filmmaker, an architect and a homemaker and is mentored by the diva herself, Ritu Dalmia. From Mumbai is Vicky Ratnani, the Gourmet Guru himself who plays mentor to his home team that boasts of a cordon bleu student, a budding chef and an ex-designer! Watch the teams as they battle it out under the watchful eyes of the vivacious Maria Goretti, who sets both teams the task of coming up with authentic chaat items, representative of their cities. The catch is that they have to make items from a set of given ingredients, and that too in ONE hour! Delhi takes up the challenge and declares that they shall make TEN dishes! Does Mumbai live up to this challenge? Controversies fly around the kitchen as to what qualifies as chaat and what does not. And who better to judge all this than the ‘Papa Pancho’ himself, Prahlad Kakkar. | | | |
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The final cook-off
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Vicky Ratnani: He is witty, wacky, wicked with a great sense of humour. He endears you with his cute and funny little ways. When he cooks he is clueless about the world around him. His lounge and the kitchen are his favourite hang outs. He loves walking in his garden and his herb plants are his best friends. Intensively trained and extensively traveled, Vicky is the Corporate Chef for fine dining at Aurus in Mumbai. His personal style is - loose T-Shirts, Bermudas, Flip Flops and of course, his chef hat. Meet Vicky Ratnani, who uses global flavours with local produce to create delicious and exotic meals in Gourmet Central.
Ritu Dalmia: Ritu Dalmia is the owner of Diva, one of Delhi's finest Italian restaurants. Diva has won the Hindustan Times' HT City Award for the last four years and The Times of India's Times Food Award for the last two years. Ritu also runs the extremely popular café at the Italian Cultural Centre. She was awarded the prestigious Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity. At the age of sixteen, Ritu joined her father's marble business. She often travelled to Italy for work and fell in love with its cuisine on her trips there. At the age of twenty-one she started her first restaurant MezzaLuna, in Delhi, offering Mediterranean cuisine with an Italian accent. It was in her words 'a wonderful disaster' and she closed shop and moved to London, where she opened the acclaimed Indian restaurant Vama. She returned to Delhi to open Diva. | |
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