A chef has revealed how to make a luxury three-course dinner for the whole family – spending just £13.10 ($15.75).
Content creator Danny Kim, 27, from Maryland, US, challenged chef Vinod to create a deluxe dinner with a budget of $20 which would feed a family.
Sharing the results on TikTok, the post went viral with three million views and 329,000 likes.
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Heading to a supermarket, Vinod picks up onions, ginger, garlic, green and red pepper, coriander, mackerel, urad gota lentils, rice, sugar and milk – all of which came to a total of $15.75 – plus a few cupboard staples at home.
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Using the haul, the food connoisseur explains: “I’m going to make an appetiser called Paniyaram, [then] fish tacos and we will have dessert.”
He starts with the fish tacos, and Vinod explains he chose mackerel due to it being both inexpensive and oily – perfect for the main course.
He guts the fresh fish, then prepares it with seasonings, then slathers it in a mixture of blended urad gota and rice, which forms a paste.
The fish is added to a frying pan of the fresh vegetables, garlic, ginger and seasonings to create the taco filling, while more of the paste is fried to make thin taco shells.
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Danny samples this and says: “Wow, now that’s amazing.”
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Next up is the Paniyaram – pan fried rice lentil dumplings.
Vinod uses the remainder of the paste, adds onion, ginger, coriander, peppers and seasonings.
He adds fried lentils with peanuts, and adds the mixture onto a pan to cook.
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Finally, Vinod creates a simple caramel custard dessert using egg yolk and sugar, which he boils and adds coffee to.
He caramelises more sugar in a separate pan, then scoops the two separate mixtures into pots and layers them, adding water for steam before putting them in the oven.
Danny says: “Three courses for $15? Chef Vinod, you killed it, thank you.”
TikTok viewers were equally impressed.
One person commented: “He is amazing chef.”
“Wow that was so amazing. Best one,” another user agreed.
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Someone else said: “Bro at Restaurant they will charge 20 bucks a person or more. Looks good.”
“Wow that’s amazing prices. That would have cost about 100$ in NY,” another viewer added.
Another person wrote: “Indian food it’s just awesome.”
“This one is one of the realest! even though he’s using all of his culinary training, it’s in a home kitchen & pretty doable for a mid level home chef,” said another fan.
“Very impressive,” agreed someone else.
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