“For me it is an olive a little bigger than that!” exclaims Luciano between the ironic and the astonished. In fact, the cucamelon, a tiny tropical fruit that look like watermelon and taste of cucumber, it is a product that is as less unusual. It is part of the special Mystery Box for the aspiring chef in the kitchen of MasterChef 9.
Under the (well smaller than usual box), there are in fact ingredients that seem to thumbnails: cockles, octopus fragolini, eggplant bead baby snails of land, mini pâtisson yellow, cucamelons, yuco of the Andes (or potato native), thighs, partridge, quail eggs and “tear the red” of Peru, that is a mini pepper from the amazon.