A 13-year-old boy from High River will be featured on the national television show Chopped Canada Junior on Sunday.

Ben Hagens made it on to compete with other young chefs with his signature dish Swimming Rama, a Tai peanut curry.

"It was like a dream come true, it was so exciting to know that I was going to be on," he says.

Ben says he has some favourites.

"I like cooking pies and bar-b-queing, pies are just fun to make and on the bar-b-que the flavours come through really well," Hagens says. "For pies my favourite to make is cherry pie and my favourite to eat is apple and bar-b-queing my favourite to cook and eat is steak."

His episode airs at 7 p.m. Sunday October 30, on Chopped Canada Junior on the Food Network.

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