Abinas Nayak
Abinas Nayak is a chef and food creator from Odisha, the winner of MasterChef India Season 6, and a storyteller sharing Odia flavours through recipes, videos and pop-ups.
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YouTubeOverview
- From
- Berhampur, Odisha, India
- Work
- Chef, recipe creator, food consultant and restaurateur
- Before cooking
- Worked at Infosys
- Breakout
- Winner of MasterChef India Season 6 in 2020
Mini bio
Food from home.
Abinas grew up in Berhampur, Odisha, and worked at Infosys before building his cooking career. Living away from home in Thiruvananthapuram, he missed familiar meals and began experimenting in a shared kitchen, learning from cooking videos. He credits his mother and grandmother’s food as a lasting influence.
Finding his direction.
Winning Hungry For Haldiram in 2018 gave him confidence. The 2019 LokiCooks Fellowship brought mentorship from Loki Madireddi and helped him focus his ideas. On MasterChef India, he kept looking for opportunities to cook Odia dishes, from chicken besara at his audition to chhena poda in the finale. He won Season 6 in March 2020.
Keeping regional food in view.
He went on to co-found Rroshashala, a venture built around regional food, especially Odia cuisine. In a 2023 interview, he described a style that keeps familiar flavours while changing techniques and presentation. His work now reaches fans through cooking videos, food stories and collaborations such as Odia Trails and Odisha ra Gapa.
Creditschronological, newest first
Food and video
- 2026Jagmag Kahaniyaan: Odisha ra GapaHost; presented by Happydent
- 2026Odia Trails, BengaluruMenu curator, Barbeque Nation Marathahalli
- 2025Odia Trails, MumbaiPop-up curator, Barbeque Nation Worli
- 2023OddiyanaOdia cloud kitchen venture with Rroshashala
Television and talks
- 2021From a Lesser Known Place to a Global Platform - Odia CuisineSpeaker, TEDxMKCG
- 2020MasterChef India, Season 6Contestant and winner
Awards
Quotes
Swaad wohi andaz nayaAbinas Nayak, Slurrp interview
In January 2023, he used this phrase to describe keeping nostalgic flavours while presenting food in a new way.
Trivia
- He painted as a child and later connected that love of art with the way he plates food.
- His MasterChef audition dish was chicken besara, putting chicken into a mustard-based preparation associated with Odia cooking.
- His 2020 MasterChef finale menu included prawns, ginger mutton and chhena poda.
- Asked which Odia dishes newcomers should try, he named besara, mansa jhola, pithas, badhi chura and chenna poda.
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