"Grits are not a thing": Spring Baking Championship's Raveena shares her honest opinion about a dish during the main heat challenge

Food Network's Spring Baking Championship recently released its fourth episode. The latest episode, based on "April Fool's Energy," featured an exciting pre-heat and a main heat challenge.

Bakers were instructed to prepare something related to the April Fool's Day prank for the main heat challenge. As the Spring Baking Championship host, Jesse Palmer, suggested, the bakers had to prepare the dinner as a dessert. He stated it should be "A dessert in disguise."

One of the bakers, Raveena Oberoi, from Vancouver, British Columbia got the menu card that read Shrimp and Grits. The issue was she didn't know what "grits" were. Referring to that, she shared her confusion via her confessional:

"I'm from Canada and grits are not a thing at least, not where I'm from."

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Spring Baking Championship Season 11 Episode 4: Raveena faces a dilemma about "grits" during the main heat challenge

While sharing the main heat challenge and what bakers were supposed to bake, the show host, Jesse Palmer stated:

"Instead of giving the judges desserts, you're going to serve them dinner. What appears to be dinner. Because everyone of your savory dishes will actually be a delicious deception. A dessert in disguise."

For the main heat challenge, the bakers had to choose a menu card from a bunch of cards and prepare whatever their card stated. One of the bakers on Spring Baking Championship, Raveena Oberoi's card read: Shrimp and Grits.

"This is going to be a little tough," she said.

Seeing her confused, fellow baker Kareem asked her what her savory dessert dish was supposed to be. When she responded, Shrimp and Grits, he replied, that's so "fun."

"What are Grits?" asked Raveena.

She also revealed that she was from Canada and the "grits" were not a "thing" there. Seeing her unaware of "grits," Kareem explained to her:

"Grits is like cream of wheat but it's more like rice. Um, it's like little teeny teeny teeny teeny."

Getting the overall idea about grits, the Spring Baking Championship baker planned to make her mom's Indian rice pudding, which she called a "killer rice pudding."

"Very Indian. So it has notes of like cardamom, pistachios, cashews, saffron. So I'm gonna layer that into a dish with pistachio cake, rice pudding on top and I'm going to make little chocolate bonbon for the shrimp," she shared.

As illustrated in the show, Raveena planned to make a vanilla pistachio cake topped with Indian rice pudding. On top of that, chocolate bon bon shrimp and mango raspberry sauce.

Further on Spring Baking Championship's fourth episode, she revealed more about the painting part and how she wanted to showcase her "strengths" via the dish:

"I think making realistic shrimp is going to be hard and it's really really going to come down to the shape and orange, pink, and red shading. If you go overboard, it's going to look fake. But I'm comfortable with painting. So I want to play to my strengths here."

When the time was to present the main heat challenge dish, Raveena presented it to the judges. It was her version of Shrimp and Grits made from pistachio cake with rice pudding and bon bons. Spring Baking Championship's baker shared her honest thoughts with the judges:

"I actually didn't know what grits were up until today."

Listening to Raveena, one of the judges, Kardea Brown, told her she would make "some" for her. She further shared her views of Raveena's dish stating:

"The shrimp do look very lifelike. I think the sponge cake is really soft, and the I love your bon bon."

Duff Goldman complimented Raveena for cardamom and saffron tastes, as they give a "good traditional Indian rice pudding" look. Nancy appreciated Raveena for representing the dish in a "very clever way."

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To learn more about what Raveena prepared, fans can stream the Spring Baking Championship Season 11 Episode 4 on Food Network.