Peter Heyword, the high commissioner of Australia, was invited as a guest of honor for the inauguration of the franchise's first series in Pakistan.

Initial rounds consisted of a large number of hopeful contestants from across Pakistan individually "auditioning" by presenting a food dish before the three judges to gain one of 50 semi-final places.

Entrants must be over 18 years old and their main source of income cannot come from preparing and cooking fresh food in a professional environment.

The contestants would then be whittled down through a number of individual and team-based cooking challenges and weekly elimination rounds until a winning MasterChef is crowned.

The top three contestants who made the best dishes are selected by the judges, from which a winner is chosen to compete in the Immunity Challenge or may be for Advantage.

The third chef is a critic and food expert and off-screen internationally-acclaimed Pakistani Chef Khurrum Awan who served as a GM for a chain of hotels across the world and currently he is a Chief Executive Assistant of the Director of Food & Beverage at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts in Karachi.

The show's first season premiered on 3 May 2014, with the selected 100 contestants from the auditions that occurred in three major cities in Pakistan: Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi.

The first season of MasterChef Pakistan was won by Ammara Noman who defeated Gulnaz and Madiha in the series finale on 27 July 2014.

It was nominated as a "Best Adaptation of an Existing Format" in the Program Category section for the 19th Asian Television Awards.

[17][18][19] Losing against Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad from India, the series was "highly commended" by the jury against other nominees.