MasterChef Australia Season 13: Indian-origin Justin Narayan bags trophy, wins cash prize

MasterChef Australia Season 13 winner, Justin Narayan, is an Indian-origin and youth Pastor based out of Perth in West Australia with Fijian and Indian ancestry. Bagging top position in one of most celebrated cookery shows, Justin me everyone proud while he clung to trophy after defeating two finalists Banglesh-origin Kishwar Chowdhary and New South Wales native Pete Campbell on Tuesday, July 13.

news of Justin's victory was anunced on official Twitter handle of MasterChef Australia wherein y shared multiple clips from finale episode of show.

One of posts re, "We think it's safe to say Justin Narayan's mind is blown right w." While Justin described win as a "surreal feeling". He said in one of clips, " Huge thanks to judges and or contestants. It was best experience of my life.

In an InstagramTV video, a jubilant Justin says, "it's gonna take a while to sink in."

Given ermous viewership of popular MasterChef Australia, show demands introduction; in terms of reward, Justin Narayan took home prize money of USD 250,000 (Rs 1.86 crore approximately) along with MasterChef title and trophy.

Taking to his ufficial account on Instagram, Justin shared, "Find people that believe in you. Back yourself. Go hard and hopefully you will surprise yourself. Whoever's reing this I love you."

MasterChef Australia Season 13 grand finale

As part of final challenge during  grand finale of most popular MasterChef Australia, three finalists h to recreate two of Australian chef Peter Gilmore's dishes- shaved sourn squid with koji butter and shiitake custard and a golden crackle. Interestingly, kwn as a risk-taker and versatile Narayan bagged a perfect score of 40/40 for first dish.

latest season also featured ar Indian contestant Depinder Chhibber's commendable culinary skills. A pharmacist by profession, she hails from Delhi. She h received judges' acclaim for bringing Indian flavours to MasterChef. Indian dishes have found a hot spot on international platforms and cookery shows too.

Depinder h t only earned praises from judges Andy Allen, Jock Zonfrillo and Melissa Leong after she presented her dishes but y said, "I think Indian dishes have always been super prevalent on MasterChef but I think this year you've got two superstars like Depinder and Kishwar (finalist), who time after time are smashing challenges and y're bringing complex Indian dishes and Indian curries that are just perfect."

Also, earlier ar Indian descent, Sashi Cheliah, h grabbed title in 2018. w, he owns a restaurant Gaja in his hometown of elaide.