Why is chicken the most consumed meat in America?
Well, because whether it's grilled,
roasted, or deep fried,
it tastes so good.
Ten out of ten.
Which is why I've opened up Chicken Guy restaurants across America
and tonight I'm challenging four chefs who are poultry pros
to prove that if chicken is done right,
it tastes not just good but great.
I could hear the crunch.
- This is a full gangster move. - [clucks]
But first they'll have to overcome grocery games
that are crazier than a game of chicken.
Oh, no.
I've never felt more flustered in my life.
It's winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Right now on Guy's Grocery Game.
Why am I stocking the chicken? Hunter?
[chicken clucks]
So let's meet our chicken-loving chefs.
Now, first up we have Eboni Henry.
Chef and proud navy wife,
who relies on chicken's versatility
and her Jamaican-born husband spices
to keep her family of six satisfied.
Chicken is a way to just please my family all the time.
My style of cooking is always Caribbean and Indian
infusion meets American,
they just marry so well together
like me and my husband.
[audience] Aww.
- [Guy] There she is. - Hey.
Much better blonde than me.
Next we got Chef Kevin Cooper,
Pennsylvania chef and cook book author.
Who's hoping his culinary training gives him
a leg up, [laughs] get it?
In tonight's chicken competition.
[Kevin] I'm amazing with chicken.
When I graduated from culinary school,
I was the valedictorian which was amazing.
And I traveled the world in the army
which helped expand my palate even further.
I can, like, be a chicken surgeon or sergeant too
because I'm in the army, too.
So the sergeant surgeon of chicken.
[Guy] Here's my twin.
We just look the same thing,
just rolling 'em out today.
And then there's Chase Davis the king of kebabs
and Atlanta food truck owner
who could even make a chicken and waffle kebab.
[Chase] Chicken is king at King Kabob.
If you could eat it, I could put it on the stick.
I'm your go-to guy.
In Atlanta all we do is eat chicken.
We can't go without it. I'm the chicken master.
There we go all that bling rolling out.
[laughs]
And finally Chelsea Sargent Lira
the Houston-based chef
who uses her artistic eye and global ingredients
to make her distinctive chicken dishes.
I am an artist inside and outside the kitchen
and there is no greater canvas than chicken.
I can't wait to make it just pop just like my art.
I just saw you last week, that it's a fresh blue.
Well, my brothers and sisters,
you have been doing double time
competing in Guy's Chance of a Lifetime
and then changing gears
to compete in Flavortown Market.
So if you're not busy enough,
tonight we're gonna see the wheels come off the wagon.
The four of you have a lot of experience
with varying successful chicken dishes.
Trust me folks I've seen it first-hand.
So we've invited you to spread your wings
here in Flavortown Market.
And compete in the triple G chicken competition.
Unfortunately the chef with the lowest score
at the end of the first round will fly the coop,
but the chef with the highest combined score
at the end of both rounds
will get a chance to shop Flavortown market up to...
- $20,000. - $20,000.
And that's no chicken scratch folks.
All right. I want you to make the judges,
a fried chicken starter
and I want you to make 'em a shake.
Oh.
A fried chicken starter and a shake, okay?
- [laughs] - [Guy] Okay?
But before you get started,
I have a question for you.
It's the question that's perplexed people
for so many years,
why did the chicken cross the store?
- To get to the other side. - To get to the other side?
Or to get to the only side of the store
- that he could shop in. - Oh, no.
You see you're gonna have to make your fried chicken starter and shake
using only ingredients
that are found on the other side of the store.
So from aisle five to aisle ten,
you get to shop in
because the red zone is off limits,
so no produce, no condiments, no sauces
to make all those flavors that people crave.
Thirty minutes to make a fried chicken starter and shake
shopping only the aisles that are lit green.
Three, two, one, and...
- [laughs] - [Kevin] Oh, Lord.
- What are we doing? - You guys were all so quick
when I did the three, two, one, go.
- That you guys took off. - Can we go?
[Guy] And that was already getting things going crazy, so...
Can we go?
[laughter]
You aren't that smart that time now.
Oh, no. Wrong way, wrong aisle, sorry.
I know these competitors from Guy's Chance of a Lifetime
and it's gonna be some tough competition.
Reserved.
Guy tells us we have to make a fried chicken starter
and a shake,
but we can only shop in aisles five and over.
So I don't have produce, I don't have condiments,
no breadcrumbs and we got to make fried chicken.
I'm going breakfast.
When I'm thinking fried chicken starter and a shake,
my head just goes breakfast deviled eggs.
I need eggs.
Fried chicken on top.
Chicken tenders.
I make them all the time for my business.
Pork rind, pretzels,
pork rinds and pretzels have crunch.
So that's what I'm breading my chicken in.
And we have to make shakes.
And when I think of shakes,
my head automatically goes to
beautiful strawberry vanilla shake.
Something that will just lighten your taste buds
because I don't have fresh produce.
Strawberries.
But I do have some beautiful frozen strawberries.
I wanna go back to my station and work.
Where is the sugar?
Aisle eight, right here.
[Chase] I knew right off the bat,
okay, let's do the chicken and waffle kebab.
That is a fan favorite.
Pecans, pecans.
I'm in Flavortown. It is a time crunch.
I don't have time to make
my full grown waffle make batter,
so I see some batter on the shelf.
I'm gonna tweak it,
I'm gonna add a little brown sugar.
That's gonna take it up to that next notch.
Oh, I guess flour is at the station.
I'm not a big fan of sweets.
I don't wanna make a plain boring milkshake.
I want it dirty,
so I'm gonna do a dirty south peanut butter milkshake.
Literally chocolate chips, pecans,
everything that make something look dirty
I'm putting it in there.
Oh, red, shoot.
We had no access to aisle one.
How you gonna have fried chicken
and you can't put hot sauce on it?
Oh, my God, where are the grits.
One of my kids have an allergy to shell fish,
so guess what?
For my fried chicken starter,
I'm gonna do chicken and grits.
Hmm, hmm.
Oh, I'm gonna run you over.
So I'm gonna do a cheesecake,
passion fruit shake you guys
because inside the cheesecake
I get all this velvety goodness in passion fruit
because it is packed with so much flavor.
Excuse me.
Let's go this way.
Guy is making us make a fried chicken starter and a shake.
Coming through, coming through, coming through.
So I'm like chicken waffles,
but kind of switch it up.
Normally you get like the breast or the thigh meat,
but I'm gonna use the mini wingettes,
to make it a smaller appetizer.
Canned biscuit.
- [Guy] What are you looking for? - Cinnamon butter?
It should be around here, Kev.
- Hey. - [Guy] Right there.
[Kevin] So for my waffles I'm gonna grab canned cinnamon buns
because I don't wanna do the basic waffle
because I need to stand out.
So for my shake, I'm trying to keep it clean and simple.
So I'm thinking about just going like, uh,
basic French vanilla shake
with like a bacon jam added to it.
I think that'll do well.
Coming through, coming through.
So let me introduce three experts,
whose chicken discussion
might include some foul language, our judges.
Now, first up we have the Food Network star
and resident spice expert
who makes a wonderful herb chicken,
the one and only Aarti Sequeira.
[cackles]
The renowned culinary rock star
who stays impressed of all the latest poultry trends,
the one in the real blue Chef Michael Voltaggio.
And finally an acclaimed executive chef
who is just at my house last night
making fantastic linguine and clams,
the hambone himself,
Chef Christian Petroni.
I would tell you what, these four have been put through the ringer
in Guy's Chance of a Lifetime.
[Michael] I just wanna say thank you.
We're getting chicken and milkshakes
because I'm like excited to judge the food.
[Christian] Right.
Kev, what's on the menu?
I'm gonna do my twist on, like, a chicken and waffle
and I'm just gonna add like a bacon milkshake with it.
[Guy] Got it, got it, got it.
So first things first.
I need to get started on my chicken wings.
I'm gonna season up my chicken wings
with a grill seasoning adobo,
salt, pepper, and garlic.
I'm gonna dip 'em in a batter
and then I'm gonna throw 'em into the fryer.
All right.
Because I don't wanna do the basic waffle.
Now I'm gonna utilize the cinnamon buns in a can.
I made this one time before
and it was a big hit,
so hopefully the judges will love it as well.
So you're making waffles out of cinnamon rolls?
Yes, waffle out of cinnamon rolls.
This is a full gangster move.
Cinnamon rolled dough waffle.
I'm out eating in my trailer by myself.
Oh, yeah I was gonna say.
[Aarti] Although here's the thing that's difficult, right?
Does it cook through and does it come out?
What do you think is the hardest thing
about not having aisles one, two, three, and four?
The fact they're not gonna have access
to any fresh produce at all
and then you add to that no condiments,
that's a tough aisle to lose.
Twenty-three minutes, chefs.
Chase, what's on the menu buddy?
[Chase] What's going on? I'm doing a chicken and waffle kebab baby.
[Guy] I like it.
You got to have some good seasoned chicken.
I want you to taste that garlic,
I'mma want you to taste that rosemary.
I want you to taste the season salt
that brings out those flavors.
The key to making a perfect waffle
is not just a plain waffle
because I'm gonna add a little brown sugar.
Brown sugar gives it that cinnamon golden look.
Word on the street is one of Chase's clients
would wake Chase up in the middle of the night
to make him chicken and waffles
because they were that good.
But if Tyler Perry wants a chicken and waffle,
I get myself up and go make him a chicken and waffle.
So this is gonna be the most time consuming thing.
For my fried chicken starter and shake,
I'm making fried chicken breakfast deviled eggs
and a strawberry milkshake.
All right. Next I'm starting my fried chicken.
Sea salt and pepper, ooh that's perfect.
So, pork rinds and pretzels have crunch
and flavor and I love the salt from both of them.
So that's what I'm breading my chicken in.
Hmm. That's good.
- Chelsea how's Stuey doing? - [Chelsea] My husband?
Oh, he's a dream.
My husband Stewart and I are a dream team.
We own Houston Grazing Tables.
I'm the chef, but man,
my husband does everything else.
He completely supports me and makes me know that,
like, I could do anything.
[Guy] Seventeen minutes, chefs.
Seventeen to go.
- What are you thinking? - I'm gonna do fried chicken
on top of grits
and I'm gonna do a passion fruit cheesecake milkshake.
I like all the way that that sound.
So the first thing I get started on is my chicken.
I'm making a dredge out of cornstarch,
some salt, pepper, and smoked paprika.
Slow down. I got time.
Next I need to work on my grits.
This is for my grits, I'm cooking my grits in this
and a little bit of butter and let that come to a boil.
That goes in there.
You wanna get fat? You come to my house.
So this is how we make a milkshake at Chicken Guy.
All right. So what we did
is I took some of the favorite cereal
that I'm using in Chicken Guy.
Steeped it in, in the vanilla milk.
Then took the vanilla milk and some vanilla ice cream
and so I have all that flavor of the cereal in there
and then right when I get done with this,
I'm gonna take it and add some of the cereal to it,
so I get the crunchy particulates in there,
serve it up to the judges. I hope they like to try it.
So for my fried chicken starter and my shake
I'm making a chicken and cinnamon bun waffle.
They are looking absolutely amazing.
That is so easy.
What a great game play. That's really smart Christian.
And a bacon jam milkshake.
I add some bacon jam,
the bacon jam is caramelized onions,
and bacon, and peppers, and stuff like that.
So it adds another layer of sweetness.
I need like a sauce real quick.
Every wing needs a sauce,
so I'm gonna make my special lemon butter bacon jam sauce.
You know, I want people to see
I'm not just a muscle head
that I am really a chef.
So if I was to win the $20,000 today.
I'm gonna check it.
Now, I want to install a commercial kitchen
to help aspiring young chefs
get the training they need
to become successful in the industry.
[Chase] Oh, that's beautiful.
For my fried chicken starter,
I'm making a fried chicken and waffle kebab
with a dirty south peanut butter milkshake.
Chocolate chips, pecan,
everything that made something look dirty,
I'm putting it in there.
I started the King Kabob
because I wanted to be different.
Everyone is doing burger, barbecue, seafood,
I wanted something that is unique.
People will come all over to try.
[blender whirring]
[Chelsea] I take my fried chicken out
and it looked golden and beautiful.
Finally I'm starting my shake.
This is ridiculous.
I've never felt more flustered in my life.
I have strawberry ice cream into the blender,
whole strawberry, vanilla milk,
and I'm whipping it up.
[blender whirring]
Less than 10 minutes to go and I'm peeling my eggs,
the stakes are so high.
This money could be life changing
because me and my husband wanna get a brick and mortar.
We want, like, a standalone like venue space.
How am I gonna finish this? Okay.
The goal for this deviled egg is to make sure
that that center is creamy.
I mean I've got to have some mayonnaise,
but I don't have any.
I can't access that aisle.
I need some egg yolks and then I need to drizzle in oil
and it will emulsify and make a beautiful mayonnaise.
That is not working.
I'm not sure what I did.
I am starting to panic.
I'm just gonna use a little bit of what I made.
Mayonnaise is a huge component
in really creamy deviled eggs
and it's killing me that I can't go grab it.
I'm not giving up.
This does not work.
While my grits are coming together
and my Andouille sausage is cooking,
I need to work on my shake.
Get in there.
Inside my blender I'm putting vanilla ice cream,
frozen passion fruit.
Half of is cheesecake,
I'm just jamming all of this in this blender.
- What is that? - [Michael] It's passion fruit,
vanilla ice cream, and cheesecake.
[Aarti] Nice and fattening.
That passion fruit brings acidity,
it brings sweetness,
it brings a little punch
that's gonna marry really well with her chicken.
What did you do?
Cereal shakes.
So, hard to...
In a stand mixer? Oh, yeah.
That's a kid cereal milkshake.
That tasty?
It's like all the excitement of being a kid.
Y'all should be jealous right now.
[Guy] Two minutes chefs.
[Kevin] So I get my perfectly cooked
cinna bun waffle down on a plate
and I top it with my crunchy,
juicy, delicious wing.
I drizzle on a little bit of maple syrup.
Next I gotta get this shake on a plate.
I just wanna just dig in myself.
Delicioso.
[Guy] Ninety seconds.
[Chase] So I get my skewer stick waffle fried chicken,
waffle fried chicken, boom, I got the perfect kebab.
I'm King Kabob everything has to be a kebab.
I pour my milkshake, garnish it nicely.
Time to go, so it's gonna look good, and taste great.
[Guy] One minute, one to go.
[Chelsea] So I have three egg whites per plate.
I fill my egg whites with my egg yolk mixture,
then add bacon jam and top it with some fried chicken.
I'm pouring my strawberry shake into the glass.
[Guy] Thirty seconds.
[Eboni] I'm gonna put my creamy grits in here,
then I'mma go back in with my fried chicken crumble
then just place these all about.
I'm gonna place me a few Andouille sausages around.
I put my milkshake in that cup.
I'm trying to give you a heart attack, okay?
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one.
That's it, chef, stop working.
All right.
Woo-hoo!
- Ugh, that was tough. - Huh!
Well, team, I gotta tell you,
you really beat the cluck, I mean, the clock.
Let's take it to the judges. Right this way.
[chicken clucks]
All right. Here we go, judges.
This is Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner competition game one.
They have to make a fried chicken starter and a shake.
Up first, Chef Chase.
I'm known for my kebabs in Atlanta.
So I did the chicken and waffle kebab
and cinnamon butter syrup as well.
And my milkshake is a Dirty South peanut butter cup milkshake,
so it has pecans, chocolate chip,
literally all the stuff you love.
[suspenseful music playing]
The waffle itself has great depth of flavor.
Because it's got a stick through it sure,
it's kabob-esque. But I wish
that you had cut everything a little small,
and because like if I gotta go out after this,
I'm gonna get syrup all over my shirt.
My wife's gonna yell at me, okay?
- All right. - There's a nice beautiful
golden crisp on your chicken, it's very tender.
And the shake, the flavors are so clean.
Like I got a clean shake from the Dirty South
because that milkshake is clean.
- Thank you. - [Guy] Up next, Chef Chelsea.
Hey, judges. So for the chicken appetizer,
I did a fried chicken doubled egg with bacon jam.
Tossed the fried chicken and pork rinds and pretzels.
And then I have a strawberry milkshake.
[suspenseful music playing]
Chelsea, love your hair, I think that, uh,
you definitely showed up with the best hair today.
- [Aarti laughs] - It looks like a starter,
feels like a starter when you're eating it.
The chicken is so good and crispy.
But you gonna call a doubled eggs,
you need that creamy, mayo-ey, mustardy, you know,
rich sort of yolk filling,
- and that's missing. - Okay.
Your shake has this innocent
strawberry sweetness that I love.
All right. Not to be outdone though,
the way better blonde than me, Chef Eboni.
[Eboni] I played on shrimp and grits.
I did it with chicken because one of my children
have an allergy to shellfish.
I cooked down the grits and some chicken broth
and then I served on the side for you guys,
a cheese cake passion fruit shake.
[suspenseful music playing]
The chicken is so good. The grits,
the Andouille sausage that's got
all that spice and the snap, right?
I just wish there was some kind of sauce
that I can just run this through.
Milkshake, 10 out of 10.
- Thank you. - Wow, it's so balanced,
it's sweet but then it's not overly sweet,
you taste the cheesecake, you taste the passion fruit.
Yeah. I'm taking this milkshake back home.
- Thank you. - Chef Kev,
- what do you got for us buddy? - What I prepared for you guys
is a double fried chicken wing,
just tossed in, uh, lemon butter sauce
and the cinnamon bun waffle
and a bacon jam vanilla milkshake.
[suspenseful music playing]
- Wow. - I've never seen that hack.
If I were to tell you, top 10 hacks
that I've seen pulled in Grocery Games,
that's genius.
You took the game and you played it the right way, bro.
Play it off against that chicken wing,
I'm not a chicken wing guy.
I'd take a dozen of these right now.
And what you've done is you got this
really dynamic yin and yang going on.
Your chicken is super salty and really crunchy
and then your waffle is soft and sweet.
Your milkshake needs a little more
- of that bacon jam I think. - [Kevin] Yes.
It's a little indistinct at this point.
Especially compared to this bright shining star
of your chicken and waffles here.
- Thank you, thank you. - All right.
Thank you very much.
We're gonna send you back to the kitchen,
and we're gonna total up the scores,
we'll call you back, we'll post them
on the board and unfortunately,
we'll send somebody home. Great job, everybody.
Thank you very much.
[suspenseful music playing]
All right, judges, whose chicken starter
was the bomb and who was just the bone?
[suspenseful music playing]
Well, well, well, chefs, time to find out
who's crossing the road and going
to the other side out the doors
and who might be shopping Flavortown for up to 20k?
Let's take a look, Chef Eboni.
- Oh, Lord. - [Guy] 16 in game play,
15 in taste, 8 in plating, total 39.
- Nice. - That's good.
[Guy] Chef Kev, 18 in game play,
17 in taste, 8 in plating, 43.
- [Chase] Yeah, man. - [Guy] Well done.
Chef Chase, 14 in game play, 16 in taste,
6 in plating, 36.
And Chels, 14 in game play, 13 in taste,
- 8 in plating, for 35. - Oh.
- [Guy] Wow. - One behind.
[Guy] Big, big lead for Kev.
Unfortunately, one chef goes home
and what I'd like to remind everybody is,
is not one, it's a chance of a lifetime, team,
- I'm not sending anybody home. - Oh, yeah.
And if you think that first round was tough,
the next one is gonna be even more difficult.
- Whoa. - But chefs,
back to your carts, good luck.
This is it, the deciding round of our chicken competition.
Chef Kev, you are in a commanding lead,
but don't count your chicken before they hatch, ba-dum-bum.
Thanks. Been holding on to that one all day.
So the final challenge, I want you to make the judges,
and I've never said this my whole life,
a Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.
- What? - Weird.
First, I have another poultry question for you.
What came first? The chicken or the egg?
Well, in this case, the egg did of course,
- this is call egg-roll. - Ooh.
[Guy] And this is the first time
we've ever done this ridiculous game.
- Uh-oh. - You're gonna take the egg
and then you will roll this, where it stops, broken or not,
is the mandatory ingredient that you end up working with.
You have your choice between chicken nuggets,
chickpeas, chicken rinds, chicken marshmallows.
[horn buzzes]
- No. - [Guy] And chicken ramen.
Come on over, Kev.
- Now be careful. - Marshmallow chicken.
- Hulk smash. - [Eboni] Oh.
- [Guy] Chickpeas, Kev. - I'll take it, man.
All right. Who wants to go next?
- Which one you wanna go for? - Chicken Ramen.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Guy] Chicken Marshmallows.
[horn buzzes]
That is the polar opposite of what Eboni wanted.
- Dang! - [Guy] I love this game.
We gotta do this more often.
Okay. What are you thinking?
I'm gonna try to go for chickpeas.
You're gonna go for the chickpeas?
- Yeah. - Okay. Here we go. Ready?
- Nicely done! - Yes.
Can I get a redo?
After this, we're gonna TP the frozen section.
All right, buddy. What are you going for?
Chicken rinds.
- [Eboni] Oh. - [Guy] There you go.
- [Kevin] Chicken rinds. - Chicken rinds he nails.
All right. So to get this right,
Kev's got the chickpeas.
Eboni's got the chicken marshmallows.
Chase got the chicken rinds,
- and Chels... - Chickpeas.
Chickpeas also. You have 30 minutes
to make your Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
featuring your egg-cellent whammy.
Ah, I'd kill myself. So as soon as I say
three, two, one go...
- Dang! - That is right, Guy.
Hello.
Hello, fine sir.
For my Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner,
I'm going with my coconut curry chicken.
Because I wanna show people that I'm versatile,
literally I can do international,
I can do soul food fried chicken,
I can do it all and make a tasty dish.
Pork rinds. I have to make a Winner, Winner,
Chicken Dinner using chicken rinds.
Oh, these are the bomb. You ever had these?
I have not. I've never had chicken rinds before.
I had pork rinds, it'll be a good garnish on top,
giving it that crunchy goodness into my dish.
[suspenseful music playing]
When I'm thinking chicken dinner,
I'm thinking chicken, sauce, and starch.
So for my Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner,
I'm thinking making chicken tikka masala.
With some basmati rice.
I still need chickpeas. I make chicken tikka masala
all the time at home and this dish packs a punch
and that's what I wanna bring to the table and I know
that the chickpeas will also go well with this dish.
I need cilantro, sorry.
Going into this round in last place is a bummer,
but I'm so happy to use the produce.
In the last game, we could only use half the store.
I mean, this is how I like to cook.
The only one that's got a tough one is Eboni.
I don't know if they can cock-a-doodle-doo it.
[Eboni] I have to make a Winner, Winner,
Chicken Dinner using chicken marshmallows.
How am I gonna do this? To be safe.
All right. The perfect chicken dinner, it's a meat,
it's doing like comfort food that I know my family love.
So I'm thinking rasta pasta.
So rasta pasta for all of you who don't know.
You basically get you some jerk chicken
and you make it into a sauce and you go
to whatever type of pasta noodles you like.
You make it nice and spicy
and then you add shrimp to it,
and that is called rasta pasta.
Guy, where is the little nasty marshmallow?
One more aisle over, nope, seven,
on your left-hand side.
[Eboni] So the fact that jerk chicken is very spicy,
I'm gonna throw these marshmallows into my sauce
to make my sauce a little bit more sweeter.
What's better than sweet heat?
Time to rock.
So for my Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner,
I'm making green matcha
house-made curry chicken dish.
I can incorporate the chickpeas into the sauce
and the saltiness, and the richness,
and the earthiness of chickpeas
is gonna blend well with green matcha tea.
I need to get this stuff done.
There's four chefs here,
if you wanna win, kill it on game play,
you know, really give us a chicken dinner.
[intense music playing]
The thing about Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner,
that's super broad, it has to be dinner,
it has to have chicken, that's it.
- Yeah. - All right, Eboni,
tell me what's on the menu, sister.
All right. I'm doing rasta pasta,
a jerk chicken pasta dish.
Where are you gonna put those orange marshmallows?
I'mma mix 'em in my sauce.
Got you, got you, got you.
First, I need to get started on my sauce
because when you make jerk seasoning,
you have to give it time to actually cook down
with juice so the flavors are very pungent.
I gotta put the jerk seasoning in there,
Scotch bonnet, I got mint,
garlic, some Worcestershire.
I usually put pineapple sauce in my jerk seasoning
to make it a little bit sweeter,
so I'm gonna use these marshmallows.
Whew! That's got some good heat to it.
We got a little bit of allspice.
So for my Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner,
I'm making green tea matcha curry with chicken
and rice on the side,
then I'mma make my own green tea matcha curry paste.
A little bit of spice,
mix everything nice with the diced shallots,
the Serrano, ginger, fresh lemon grass,
and my whammy ingredient, the chickpeas.
The chickpeas is gonna kind of help thicken the sauce.
Matcha green tea, put that in there like that.
- What you makin', Chase? - Uh, coconut curry.
- Oh. - What you makin'?
I'm making a green tea curry, man.
- [Chase] Oh, wow. - So it's like similar dishes.
Bring it on.
[Chase] The base of my curry and take onions
and ginger and I saute that down.
Then I add the rest of my seasonings,
like garlic, pepper, paprika, curry.
Look, two more...
It's risky to make a curry.
Curry takes a long time to develop flavor.
If anyone knows me, they know I love Atlanta,
born and raised,
Atlanta is the best place in the world.
I don't have no kids, I got no dad,
but I got a turtle. I love my turtle Jaws,
he's there with me through thick and thin,
like, literally that's my dog.
[Chelsea] I'm cooking chicken tikka masala.
Going to this round in last place is a bummer
so I really want this chicken tikka masala
to prove to the judges why I'm here.
With chicken tikka masala,
you need to marinate your chicken.
I have fresh garlic and ginger
and yogurt, salt, pepper,
and then I'm sitting my chicken in that yogurt
to marinate just for a little bit.
Oh, that's it for a couple of minutes and prep my sauce.
I'm starting my sauce by putting onions,
garlic, and ginger in a pan with oil to brown.
Cooking with gas.
Then I have canned tomatoes,
garam masala, salt, pepper, cumin.
I really got to try to impact all the flavor
in such a short amount of time.
So interesting to me that we have basically
four curries going on here.
And different iterations of it.
In a way, this is my dream.
- Aarti shows up... - Yeah.
And now everyone's cooking for Aarti.
She's got four private chefs here just making...
[overlapping chatter]
- You know. - Well, let's see though.
- Hey, Eboni, how you doing? - I'm good baby, how about you?
I'm looking at the clock.
[Eboni] So, next I need to work on my chicken
so I'm gonna get it in this skillet
with some onion and garlic, and get it cooking.
Did the, uh, marshmallow birds making in there yet?
- Oh, they're in there ready. - They're already in there?
Yes. I've been cutting them up. They in there.
Guys, you ever had Rasta pasta?
- I haven't, no. - It's got good heat.
- I mean, I like... - We saw the peppers go in.
I like heat but it's... That's my kind of heat.
Oh, is that so? That's not good.
[laughs] It's gonna be hot.
I'm four points behind Kevin, come on now.
I have to come back.
There's $20,000 on the line.
Winning is so important to me because, one,
I wanna help my husband pay bills
because he's supporting my family
with our dreams right now with one income
and then I wanna use the other half
of the money to open my spice shop.
It's a way for me to spill my love
for food into everyone's household.
- Hmm, this is so good. - What's on the menu?
We got a green... a green tea matcha curry.
- This thing right here... - That is delicious, Kev.
[Kevin] Thanks, Chef.
So now that my curry simmering,
I gotta get working all with my chicken.
Gotta move fast on this bad boy.
I'm gonna use the technique called velveting the chicken.
It's also gonna need some cornstarch and salt
and then get it into the fryer for a quick flash fry.
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.
I've been all over the world,
I've been all over the country
so I love food culture.
I have a catering company called
Succulent Imagination Catering.
We put a soulful twist on a worldwide cuisine,
that's what we do.
All right. I gotta get rid of this.
I've cut up my vegetables.
Hmm. Okay.
When are the chicken tikka masala rules?
- [Aarti laughs] - Give us the basics.
The chicken tikka masala to me
needs to have charred chicken
that's been marinated in yogurt
and then a creamy tomato gravy
that has some of those warm spices in it.
For my Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner,
I have to use chickpeas.
So I'm gonna fry up the chickpeas,
toss it in lime zest, fresh coriander, salt,
pepper, they are going to be amazing.
Fried chickpeas are the best.
I want my crunch. I want this to be like
the best topping.
The highlight of this is bits.
Your little fried chickpea is money.
Yeah, they're good that's why I wanted it more of them.
I like mine a little sweeter,
so I'mma add a little coconut sugar through it.
What do you need?
Great tasting, buddy.
This is Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner.
I got to have some good chicken.
I know I made fried chicken last time
but who doesn't love fried chicken?
Fried chicken is a staple.
Chase, what you doing, bro? How are you doing over there?
I'm feeling like I would love
like three more minutes on the clock.
What's great about my food truck?
It's a party all the time.
We can go anywhere. But when I win this $20,000,
I'm gonna finally open me a brick and mortar.
Literally my fans in Atlanta try to chase me down
all the time but I'm literally
some place every single day.
So having a set location so people can come in
and dine with us all the time,
that's why I want this money, that's why I will win today.
90 seconds, Chefs. 90 seconds.
[suspenseful music playing]
So I'll scoop the matcha green tea curry into the bowl.
I get the rice into its own little bowl,
and I just hope I got enough chicken
and chickpea in this bowl,
because I need that 20k.
I start up with my season right.
It looks good. The flavor is there.
Then I chop up my chicken
and I lay that across my bed of rice,
then it's time for the curry, baby,
curry going on top of everything.
My plan with the chicken rind,
I need some texture. So I'm gonna just
crunch them up throw them on top
and that's gonna add that texture
for my coconut curry.
Hopefully that's enough.
Cool. Perfect. My rice is done. I'm happy.
I have all my elements ready and it's time to plate.
I put my basmati rice on the plate,
my chicken tikka masala with a sauce,
and I have my gorgeous chickpeas
and fresh cilantro right on top.
30 seconds!
[Eboni] All right. It's show time.
So I'm putting my Rasta pasta together
and my sauce is looking so creamy.
I'm trying to get the shrimp down,
I'm trying to pick the prettiest, juiciest,
most succulent ones because to me,
that's a garnish on my pasta.
I really feel like my dish is gonna win.
[Guy] Three, two, one,
Chefs, that's it. Stop working.
- Yay! - All right, guys.
[applauding]
Turn it up, baby.
- [Michael] That was intense. - All right, Chefs,
let's find out who's Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner
is king of roost.
Let's take to the judges right this way.
All right. Judges, here it is game two
of the poultry-palooza. The chefs had to make
their Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner,
these are your special ingredients,
up first, the chicken rind man himself, Chef Chase.
[Chase] I made a chicken coconut curry
top with a little chicken rind
to add that little texture on top.
Yo, Cousin Chase,
I would order this once a week for my favorite takeout place.
The flavors to me are good. They're right there.
In the curry itself, you taste a lot of the curry powder...
Yeah. The curry powder,
it's coming across a little raw.
You could have grab, like, some chicken gravy
and put that in there too
and made like this concentrated,
like, flavorful gravy.
But as far as, like, your take on a curry,
I can see you and I love the additions
- that you made to it. - Thank you.
All right. Thank you very much.
Up next, Chef Eboni.
[Eboni] I made my spin on Rasta pasta
which is a pasta with jerk chicken in it
and put the marshmallows in my sauce.
Then I topped it off with some Hail Mary grilled shrimp.
- Hoo. - [Aarti laughs]
If you're gonna make jerk, you gotta make it right.
Flavor-wise, it's rare
that you can taste creativity in flavors.
You created flavors I haven't had before.
- Thank you. - Because it was so sweet,
the heat really work and it's just really,
really fantastic.
I think the difficulty here is chicken dinner
and the chicken is not the star in this dish...
- [Eboni] Okay. - The shrimp is the star.
- Okay. - Great. Thank you very much.
Up next, Chelsea and the chickpea.
Hey guys, I did a buttered chicken,
chicken tikka masala and I topped it
with some fried crispy chickpeas.
[upbeat music playing]
This flavor that you coaxed outta here
is very, very tasty. I love it.
You have the chickpeas as your whammy ingredient
and you did what we were all hoping
you would do which is fry those suckers.
It gives a nice crunch and they sort of evaporate
like a cloud when you bite into them.
When it comes to chicken tikka masala,
the chicken is missing the char.
Calling this tikka masala
may have been a disservice to you,
like this could have been to me a delicious vodka sauce,
like, it tastes like a really good tomato sauce right now.
- Overall though, great. - Thank you.
Thank you very much. Not to be outdone, Chef Kev.
Hey. What I made for you guys today
is a green tea matcha curry.
I add the chickpeas in the sauce
but I also blended up the chickpeas
inside the curry base.
I love the earthiness that that matcha
brings to this curry.
I just wish you highlighted the chicken more, bro.
The texture of the chicken is beautiful.
Chicken breast can dry out
in a curry setting particularly, so great job.
I wouldn't change anything about the curry that you made.
The depth of flavor and the freshness
and the lightness and the level of intelligence
that's in this dish is incredible.
- Appreciate that. - [Guy] Thank you, judges.
We'll send you back to the kitchens.
We'll call you when we have a decision. Thank you.
Couple questions I have for you guys.
Who got the most chicken?
Who made it a Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner?
No one really embraced the challenge
of making a center of the plate chicken dinner.
I know.
And they all made delicious-tasting food
so now it's coming down to, like, nuance and details.
Okay. Judges, thank you very much.
Let's get the, uh, scores totaled up
in the bulletin board.
Let's take a look at this
for our Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner.
Chels, 35 points in the first round,
second round, a 15, a 15, an 8,
and a 38, takes you to a total of 73.
- [Aarti] Good job, girl. - [Guy] Nicely done.
- Chase, 16, 16... - [Eboni] Oh.
- [Guy] 8, for a 40... - [Eboni] Oh. Good job, Chase.
- [Guy] And a 76. - So I'm winner right now?
- [Chelsea] Yay! - [Eboni] Good job. Good job.
- [Guy] Eboni, 15... - [Eboni] Yo.
[Guy] 16, 7, total of 38.
Takes you to 77.
Big man, all you need is a 34 or better.
- 15, 17, 8, for a 40. - [Eboni] Wow.
[Guy] And there we have it, ladies and gentlemen.
[Eboni] Congratulations, Kevin.
[Guy] 83 points to, Kev.
The three of you have been doing
a fantastic job on Chance of a Lifetime.
We got a lot more coming up.
I'll see you at Chicken Guy!, all right?
- All right. - Chase, Eboni, Chelsea,
- thank you very much. - Good luck, Kevin.
Congratulations.
The fact that I'm just able
to get my food out there
and let people know how great it is,
that's a win for me in itself.
I didn't win but I got to cook in Flavortown
and that is already a dream in itself.
Congrats, Kevin, I know you're gonna split
this money with me, we're brothers, right?
Good news is, we have a couple of ways
for you to big bucks.
I have a list of 10 popular
chicken-related ingredients from all 10 aisles.
Every ingredient you find is worth $2,000.
- [Kevin] Oh, good. - So you grab all 10 items,
- you win 20,000 bucks. - Sure enough.
Or you could skip the spree and go to the mystery check.
It is right behind those two-doors right there.
- Aah. - Which could anywhere
between $10,000 and $20,000.
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
- You know what? I'mma shop. - All right.
Let's take a look at the check that's behind the door,
see how much it would have been.
$15,500.
So all you gotta do is get eight items or more.
Let's make this happen, Kevin. Two minutes on the clock.
- Hey. - Let's go for the first item.
Veggie with stock used in chicken stock.
You get it, you put it the cart, let's go.
All right.
- [Aarti] Go, go, go! - [Christian] Go, Kevs!
- Woo-hoo! - [Michael] Go Kev!
- Everybody move. - I mean,
- smoke coming off his feet. - [Michael] Shaking.
[Aarti] Oh, he got it already.
- That's 2,000. - 2Gs, 2Gs.
Next one we're looking for is in aisle two,
- jerk marinade. - So I'mma run
around the store like a chicken
with my head cut off and win this money.
- Okay. 4,000. - All right.
Aisle three, beer can.
Aisle four, chicken bouillon cubes.
We got limited time, got a minute left.
All right. Dude, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[Guy] Aisle five, rice.
[Kevin] Yo, I'm at 10k, baby.
I'm almost beating that check.
[Guy] Aisle six, liver and chicken cat food.
That's a first. Liver and chicken cat food.
Meow, meow, meow, meow.
I'll just still grabbing everything I see.
40 seconds.
Corn meal, aisle seven. Corn meal.
- [Christian] Come on, Kev! - Oh.
One more and he's ahead of the game.
Aisle eight. Quick grits. Aisle eight, quick grits.
[Aarti] Run, run, run, run!
22 seconds, Kev.
And now I have beat the check.
[Guy] Aisle nine, frozen chicken burrito.
- Get your cart! Get your cart! - [Aarti] Get your cart,
get your cart! Run, run, run, run!
- [Guy] Ten, nine... - [Aarti] Run, run, run!
- Eight... - [Christian] Go Kev, go!
- Seven, six... - Get it, get it, get it,
- get it, get it. - Five, four, three...
- [Aarti] Yes! - Two, one. Stop.
- [Christian] All right. Stop. - [Aarti] Yay!
18K, towards my commercial kitchen and my mentorship.
- $18,000. - [Aarti] Yay!
Check this guy out and all the team
on Guy's Chance of a Lifetime.
We'll see you guys in Flavortown next week.
- Adios! - [Kevin] Let's do it.