Farm to Feast: Best Menu Wins is back with a new host of contestants ready to battle it out for the top spot on the BBC NI show.
The series is a cookery competition celebrating award-winning produce from farms and fisheries across Northern Ireland.
Seven amateur cooks move into a castle in Fermanagh, where they live with and compete against each other until one is crowned the eventual winner.
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Hosted by Eamonn Holmes and featuring Michelin star chef Danni Barry and food critic Joris Minne as judges, it is produced by local company Stellify Media who are behind ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?’ and 'Celebrity Snoop Dogs'.
The seven competing cooks of series 2 are:
- Seana McCafferty from Derry
- Kerry Kane from Newtownards
- Alex Huston from Belfast
- Shubham Baviskar from India and currently living in Belfast
- Karen Mulholland from Bangor
- Ricky Robinson from Belfast and now living in County Tyrone
- Mandipa ‘Mandi’ Dhliwayo, originally from Zimbabwe currently living in Belfast
Episodes one to four begin with a reveal of two key ingredients, from which the contestants must create a menu for one small and one large dish.
Danni and Joris blind-select their favourite three menus, determining the three cooks who’ll battle it out in the kitchen for a place in the semi-final. Those not picked enjoy an opportunity to taste the competitor’s dishes, and a chance to try again next time.
After four heats, the judges whittle the contestants down to four deserving semi-finalists and the pressure ramps up as they have their culinary creativity put to the test once more.
In the finale the last two cooks standing face the ultimate culinary showdown where they are tasked with preparing a formal two-course meal to be served in the castle’s grand state dining room; enjoyed by the Earl of Erne, the two food producers behind the key ingredients, the five cooks who didn’t make it into the final and judges Danni and Joris.
Farm to Feast will available in its entirety on BBC iPlayer from Friday 24 March, and also be shown weekly from the same date on BBC One Northern Ireland at 7.30pm
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