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ARIA chef Matt Moran reveals MasterChef dessert was dumbed down
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AUSTRALIA'S most famous dessert, the ARIA chocolate tart, which decided the record-breaking MasterChef final, was ``dumbed down'' to make it possible for the contestants to replicate it, chef Matt Moran has revealed.
And in another bombshell, Moran said he was not the dish's originator. It was his pastry chef, Andrew Honeyset, who spent three weeks working on the seven-piece dessert.
Moran said that Honeyset's deafness made it too problematic for him to present and explain the dish on television but he wanted to ensure that his partner in creme was given equal credit for the dish.
He said: ``He's incredibly talented. It starts off as a dessert he brings to me and we tweak it together. It's a partnership.''
Moran said two ingredients were removed from Aria's version of the dish so finalists Julie Goodwin and Poh Ling Yeow could reproduce it in the time allowed on the show.
The trick with chocolate, he said, was ``getting the temperature right and keeping an eye on it''.
``To be really honest it was a little bit dumbed down,'' he said.
``There were a couple of components missing, only because of time restraints for them.''
On the show a glacage (a French glazing) is used both as a smear on the plate and to coat the top of the tart. The real thing at Aria has a brulee coating.
Likewise the show used double-thick cream while Moran and Honeyset use a special oat ice cream.
Honeyset said he wanted to create a dish that used the same basic ingredient _ chocolate _ to produce a range of exciting textures, from the snap of the chocolate pipe to the silky smoothness of the chocolate mousse.
``It came over about three weeks,'' he said.
``I was trying to make a normal chocolate tart and dress it up a bit more with different textures.''
He also revealed that popular MasterChef contestant Justine Schofield was not being employed by Aria, as had been widely believed, but is instead being mentored by Moran in an unofficial capacity.
``She's actually not working here,'' he said.
``I'm just helping her out and showing her how a commercial kitchen works. She's been hanging out spending weekends with us.
``She's a lovely girl. She's actually got a lot of talent. One day she very well may work for me but at this point in time she's just enjoying it.''
Aria, which sells the tart for $24, said there had been a significant increase in bookings since Sunday's final, which, for anyone who just arrived from Mars, was won by Julie.
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