MasterChef: The Professionals - Season 15

New judge Anna Haugh, Marcus Wareing and Gregg Wallace preside over the UK’s most revered cooking competition, as 32 ambitious chefs from across the country compete to become the 2022 champion.

Four more chefs face Skills Tests. Two must butterfly sardines with tomato and olive tapenade, while the others demonstrate their butchery skills as they prepare rose veal kidneys.

This year’s first quarter-final sees the strongest five chefs from the first two heats return to battle it out in the MasterChef Kitchen.

Four chefs face two challenges in this week's first heat. Marcus and Anna set skills tests involving ravioli and rainbow trout before the chefs prepare their signature menus.

Today's skills tests involve butchering a saddle of rabbit and removing the meat from a crab. The four contenders then try to impress the judges with their signature dishes.

In the second quarter-final, the four chefs must create dishes that showcase different textures. Then they cook two courses for food writers Leyla Kazim, William Sitwell and Grace Dent.

Four more chefs face Skills Tests set by Anna and Marcus. Two must prepare a pork chop with butter bean stew, while the other two cook tempura vegetables with nori seasoning.

Four more chefs face Skills Tests set by Anna and Marcus. Two must prepare sweet potato gnocchi with hazelnut pesto, while the other two serve up poached apricots with Chantilly cream.

The quarter-finals must prepare dishes based around the combination of orange and ginger. Then they cook for food critics Tom Parker Bowles, Tracy MacLeod and Grace Dent.

In the penultimate heat, the chefs are challenged to prepare steamed sea bream with Asian-style broth and beetroot tortellini with a goat's cheese and walnut filling.

In the final heat, two contenders cook pigeon in Madeira sauce, while the other two prepare a filo pastry mille feuille with layers of tropical fruit and piped coconut.

Four quarter-finalists design a savoury pastry dish and then cook for three of the UK's top restaurant critics. Only two can proceed to the semi-finals.

Ten contenders compete in the semi-finals. They must create showstopping dishes based on their favourite food memories.

Four semi-finalists cook in a pop-up restaurant environment for 20 of the UK's top food entrepreneurs.

The semi-finals conclude with the second group of four chefs cooking for 20 of the UK’s best pop up chefs and food entrepreneurs.

It’s Finals Week, and the six remaining chefs cook off against each other for the chance to cook for their culinary heroes at the Chef's Table event at London's Lanesborough Hotel

The last four chefs cook for some of the UK’s top food critics. Only three can progress to the final, so they need to cook the best food of their lives.

After six weeks of fierce competition, only the three best chefs remain. They must cook the three most spectacular courses of their lives for the MasterChef judges. Season finale