{"id":108543,"date":"2020-11-11T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108543"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:47:36","slug":"tiny-georgia-wows-australia-with-sri-lankan-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/11\/tiny-georgia-wows-australia-with-sri-lankan-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Georgia Wows Australia With Sri Lankan Cuisine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Georgia, a cute, talented and confident 11 year old competing in the Junior MasterChef contest in Australia, was crowned the winner this week. The announcement saw millions of viewers who were captivated by the little contestants flood the internet with heartwarming messages of happiness and appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia has Sri Lankan roots and is immensely proud of her heritage. In the final episode of the show, she cooked a pork curry, cashew curry, eggplant curry, plus yellow rice, pappadums and cucumber raita for her main.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her dessert, which she named \u2018Tropical Mess\u2019 had five elements:  toasted coconut ice cream, brown bread crumb, Davidson plum pearls, Davidson plum meringues and a lemongrass granita. It\u2019s a blend between Sri Lankan and Australian \u2013 a bit like me!\u201d Georgia explained to the judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While contestants on the grown up version of the show may be tempted to whip up fancy meals with French names, the little kids on Junior MasterChef have always preferred to do things their own way. For Georgia, that meant going back to her Grandma\u2019s Sri Lankan recipes, which she has always enjoyed relied on throughout the show. And those dishes were enough to convince the judges that they had finally found their winner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having first started cooking when she was around three years old, Georgia was inspired to take up the craft after watching her family gather in the kitchen to cook. Curiosity took over, and she has been cooking ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Georgia has previously credited her grandmother for teaching her to cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m very close to my Nanna and my Papa,\u201d Georgia said on the show, explaining she\u2019s also learnt to make dishes that reflect her cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They\u2019re both Sri Lankan. My Nanna taught me how to make lots of different Sri Lankan food.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On the final episode of the show, the kids also showed surprising maturity in dealing with their mishaps, teaching adults a thing or two about dealing with emotions. Out of all the contestants, Georgia actually had the toughest time. Though her curries were the standout in the main course, her dessert literally fell apart. The base split, the ice cream didn\u2019t set properly. She started to lose it. Her mum yelled out, You can do it, my angel,\u201d and she replied, heartbroken, No I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always try to get everything right but that\u2019s not how life works,\u201d Georgia said. After a hug from her mum, she managed to get the final elements on the plate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the judges said the decision came down to pure deliciousness\u201d. And on that, Georgia just couldn\u2019t be beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After winning, Georgia said she\u2019s not too sure what she\u2019ll do with the AUD 25,000 prize money, but said she will definitely use it for something fun and food-related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll have access to it when I\u2019m 18 so I have seven years to think about it,\u201d she said. I\u2019m thinking travel and starting a food stall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy hoteliers.global Georgia, a cute, talented and confident 11 year old competing in the Junior MasterChef contest in Australia, was crowned the winner this week. The announcement saw millions of viewers who were captivated by the little contestants flood the internet with heartwarming messages of happiness and appreciation. Georgia has Sri Lankan roots and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}