TOthe end of the twelfth episode, Masterchef 2025 He has his winner. Yi Lan Anna Zhang triumphed in the highly anticipated endingbroadcast on Thursday 27 February in the early evening on Sky Uno and streaming on Now. The best of the fourteenth edition decreed were the judges Bruno Barbieri, Antonino Cannavacciuolo and Giorgio Locatelli. The verdict reached the end of an episode full of tight tests, which put the aspiring chefs under pressure.
Masterchef 2025the winner is Anna
After the victory of Eleonora Riso in the last edition, another woman conquered the highest step of the podium of the most feared kitchen on television. “I don’t believe it”said in tears immediately after proclamation, “I finally found my way. I will never want to do anything else in life if I don’t express myself through the kitchen “.
Anna won the prize pool of 100,000 euros in golden tokens, a higher formation course at Alma – The International School of Italian Cuisine and the publication of his first recipe book. It is titled Pots and zodiac And it will be released on 11 March for Baldini+Castoldi. Born 32 years ago to Chinese parents, she grew up in Veneto, but after high school she moved to Milan to enter the world of fashion.
After working in a luxury boutique, he began to get passionate about the kitchen. Between pots and stoves he found his roots and his way. Today he works as a consultant, he lives in Venice and the cuisine for her is a union of cultures. I dream of opening a restaurant in a green perspective with which to get a green star.
Yi Lan Anna Zhang is the winner of “Masterchef 2025”. (Sky)
The final between Mystery Box and Invention Test
In the race to victory, Anna collided with the other three finalists. Jacopo Carnevali called Jack26 years old, Content Creator and influencer of Cesano Boscone, in the province of Milan, with the dream of becoming a private chef. Simone Grazioso, 36, from Albawith the aim of a “refined and modern cuisine, with some references to the Fusion world”. In the end, Mary Cuzzupè, 30engaged in human resources in Bergamo, but of Sicilian origin.
The first test was the Mystery Box. Exceptional guest, Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco3 Michelin stars with the restaurant Mirazur in Mentone, in France. He subjected the competitors to a pigeon and cedar -based test and Simone was the best. In the invention test, Jack presented the dish Remuntada With raw scampi, lime, lettuce, asparagus and grapes, and won the title of second finalist.
Mary has focused on a plate of tartare of scampi and chupets with apricots, avocado and lavender infusion, entitled Until the last petal. Anna, on the other hand, called her dish The rebirth of a ko And it was based on the tartare of Candocchia with turnip cabbage, melon and apple. To have to abandon the cuisine of Masterchef 2025 It was Mary, who commented: «I fought with the people I consider stronger. They were really good, they have that more something you are looking for and it is right. “
“Masterchef 2025”: the finalists Simone, Mary, Anna and Jack with chef Mauro Colagreco. (Sky)
Masterchef 2025Anna’s menu
The last test, in which the finalists played everything for everything, concerned the menu that each of them decided to submit to the judges. Anna opted for the menu The Eden of Yilanna«Which is nothing more than the union of my two names, Yi Lan and Anna. Many times I have told you about my dream of creating an oasis in which to welcome, take care of people, and I would like to make you discover the project itself flat after course and also my origins».
Then he added: “I’ve always been too Chinese to be Italian and too Italian to be Chinese. I want to tell you, expressing the union, the integration of those flavors that are also daughters of that inevitable encounter of different cultures “. “In the kitchen there are no boundaries, there is only freedom of expression,” recalled Cananvacciuolo. The menu was composed of the appetizer Tree of life and its elixirgreen rice chips with marinade, green apple and daikon, mint, ginger and finger lime, served with an elixir of Kombucha and citrus fruits.
The first called it My mom’s smile: a raviolo stuffed with garuses, oyster and bacon mushroom, tobiko and gate of saffron. Stove and lacquered pork belly with oriental spices, crunchy salad of cucumbers, yellow plums and chilli pepper, sea urchins the ingredients of the second entitled The power of time. In the end, as dessert it presented Equal Babà, right?composed of Babà with rum and osmanto, mozzarella and coconut mousse, tagetes oil.
Anna, the winner of “Masterchef 2025”. (Sky)
Jack and Simone’s menus
Simone presented A tour of the Langhewhich speaks “of family, tradition and innovation. The flavors of the earth where I was born and raised bring you home and for me home has only one meaning: the family ».
JackInstead, proposed See you on the other side“The wish to meet again after a path that marked us. I want to take you around the world, to discover flavors, ingredients and cooking techniques that I discovered right here in the masterclass and that I made me, “he explained.
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