MasterChef India – Hindi season 5
Season 5 of the Indian Hindi-language competitive reality TV series MasterChef India – Hindi premiered on Star Plus on 1 October 2016.
Vikas Khanna returned to judge this season while Sanjeev Kapoor and Ranveer Brar were replaced by Kunal Kapur and Zorawar Kalra respectively.
The winner was Kirti Bhoutika, a 20-year-old Nutrition graduate, with Ashima Arora being the runner-up.
Format
Top 30 contestants were chosen from India and even from the other parts of the world like San Francisco, London, etc. From the Top 30, Best 10 were chosen by a cook-off between 3 each and in the second-chance cook, 6 other were chosen.Top 16
| Contestant | Age | Hometown | Occupation | Status | Winnings |
| Kirti Bhoutika | 20 | Kolkata, West Bengal | Bakery Owner | 7 | |
| Ashima Arora | 23 | Amritsar, Punjab | Cake Artist | 6 | |
| Dinesh Patel | 21 | London, United Kingdom | Lawyer | 6 | |
| Mirvaan Vinayak | 19 | Faridabad, Haryana | Actor | 7 | |
| Samantha Barrett | 27 | Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Cafe Owner | 7 | |
| Anagha Godbole | 44 | San Francisco, California | Senior Product Manager | 6 | |
| Siddharth Talwar | 46 | Noida, Uttar Pradesh | MNC Vice President | 1 | |
| Jatin Khurana | 24 | Ludhiana, Punjab | Telecommunication Manager | 2 | |
| Syed Sadaf Hussain | 27 | Ranchi, Jharkhand | Social Sector Manager | 3 | |
| Ajay Kumar Siotra | 24 | Jammu | Tourism Student | 2 | |
| Pradip Bhawalkar | 69 | Pune, Maharashtra | Engineer | 2 | |
| Rohini Chawla | 36 | Gurugram, Haryana | Housewife | 2 | |
| Sreelakshmi N. Prabhu | 37 | Kochi, Kerala | Housewife | 0 | |
| Abhilasha Chandak | 29 | Purulia, West Bengal | Homemaker | 0 | |
| Shipra Chenji | 35 | Meerut, Uttar Pradesh | Interior Designer | 0 | |
| Ashwin Iyer | 37 | Bangalore, Karnataka | Food Blogger | 0 |