MasterChef’s Ben Ungermann makes CHICKEN FEET ice cream and judges have surprising reaction 

MasterChef’s Ben Ungermann made chicken feet ice cream during Wednesday night’s episode of Back To Win. 

Contestants were given chicken feet as an ingredient in a mystery box challenge, with many using it to make savoury dishes. 

But Ben demonstrated just why he is nicknamed the ‘Ice Cream King’ and used the peculiar item to make chicken fat caramel to serve alongside his frozen dessert. 

The exact dish Ben made was honey and galangal ice cream with chicken fat caramel and a Chinese five-spice biscuit.

Ben rendered out the fat from the chicken feet and used it to make the caramel, which he generously served alongside the ice cream.  

‘I’ve used other fats, I’ve never used chicken feet but they look quite gelatinous, I’m sure I’ll get some flavour out of it. Yeah, that’s the plan,’ Ben explained on the show.   

‘There’s not enough chicken feet flavour in it,’ Ben said at one point, before adding more chicken fat to the caramel mixture. 

Ben served the dish beautifully by spreading the chicken fat caramel and adding ice cream, biscuit and cherries on top – before pouring some extra caramel on the side for good measure. 

‘I’m really proud of what I’ve done but at the same time, I’m thinking, “If you tell someone that you’re making a chicken fat caramel and who’s in?” I don’t know how many people would put their hands up,’ he said. 

‘I just hope they like it.’ 

Despite being nervous, the judges showed him he had nothing to worry about as they completely raved about the dish. 

‘This is double delicious, more than delicious. This is clever. The chicken feet gives a richness to this that otherwise would not be there,’ judge Jock Zonfrillo said. 

Jock then picked up a cup of the chicken fat caramel and drank it, prompting groans from some of the other contestants.   

‘Mate, put it in a jar and sell it with your ice-cream. Seriously!’ he said.   

The ice cream with chicken feet caramel was enough to secure Ben a spot in the immunity challenge in the next episode.   

But Ben wasn’t the only contestant who got creative with his use of chicken feet.  

Simon Toohey attempted to make a chicken feet jelly but when it would not set in time for the deadline, he decided to make a chicken feet mousse.  

‘I take some cream, I whisk that up. I fold in the chicken foot liquid. And then I pour that into a nitrous (oxide) gun, and let’s just sit and hope. Literally cross your fingers and hope that it’s good,’ he said.  

He made a steamed taro dish with chicken feet moose on the side. Although the judges were not big fans of the taro, they praised the mousse for being full of flavour.

MasterChef: Back To Win continues Thursday at 7:30pm on Channel Ten