A Sunbury teen chef has taken home the silverware at a national competition.
Kimberly Tang, 19, was recently named one of Australia’s best young chefs winning three silver medals in the national final of the 2016 Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award.
Kimberly and teammate Bridget Bottcher, 21, battled it out in the kitchen against the country’s 10 best junior chef teams snatching up silver medals for their entrée, main and dessert course dishes.
The duo’s award-winning menu included an entrée of beetroot cured ocean trout, prawn rillette, beetroot fluid gel, pickled yellow beetroot, Jerusalem artichoke chips and lace tuiles.
They served up charcoal lamb, smoked lamb tartare, quintet of mushrooms, potato wafers, apricot jam, parsnip foam, beetroot and chocolate demi glaze for main.
To finish, it was kaffir lime and coconut mousse with a beetroot reduction, green ginger sponge, kaffir lime curd and ginger nest.
Kimberly, who is already an apprentice chef at No.8 Crown Melbourne, is no stranger to the competition having competed last year.
“It’s next-level cooking in front of a live audience like this but I’m really proud of what I achieved. I improved on last year’s result at the regionals, so I’m definitely happy with that,” she said.
