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Colorado foodie: Chef impresses Food Network with unusual pig lips dish

June 26, 2024 | by lovetastycooking.com

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DENVER (KDVR) – A Colorado chef took his chances on an odd Food Network cooking show, which asked him to cook one of the oddest ingredients in his dish.

Nick Swanson took on the ultimate challenge on the show “Chopped,” which is like any other cooking show in which chefs race against the clock, and each other, to complete a challenge. However, the challenge is using ingredients that are provided to them.


Unfortunately for Swanson, in his first appearance on the show, he was given a “mystery box” with pickled pig lips to work with.

“It’s literally madness for the first 20 minutes then the next round is 30 minutes. I mean you’re just hustling around trying to get something done. I mean, they put you in a stressful environment where you’re kind of not set up for success,” Swanson told FOX31.

Swanson said he’s usually busy making pizza and burgers as the owner of Urban Field Pizza Market in Longmont. Even after 20 years in the industry, he had never worked with the new ingredient which he described to FOX31 as “tough,” “chewy” and “not anything you want to put in your mouth.”

Chopped chef
Chopped chef

“I mean it was wild, and stressful, and crazy. Just all the emotions all at once,” said Swanson.

Swanson covered the bottom of the dish with a creamy polenta, then he said he topped it with frozen fish sticks, which were also in the mystery box. He added finger chilis and leeks, made a ragu with pig lips and sausage and spread the dish with salsa verde.

The unusual dish brought him into the next round, eventually landing him in third place.

“It’s just insanity the whole time but I would do it again in a heartbeat,” said Swanson.

While the show is over for Swanson, he still has big plans, including opening another pizza shop in Loveland next month.

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