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Judging a cooking competition…rasoi ni rangat

It always gives me great pleasure to share my knowledge with the new generation and this time the opportunity came in the form of a cooking competition. I was  privileged to be invited as a judge in this inter-collegiate  flameless cooking competition held on 5th February 2019. Students from more than 12 colleges from  Western suburbs in Mumbai participated with great enthusiasm eager to display their passion for cooking  and creativity. Nirmala Memorial Foundation college of Commerce and Science is a popular college affiliated to University of Mumbai in the Western suburbs providing high quality education to its students. It was an excellent opportunity provided by the management  to motivate young talents and provide them with an exposure of cooking in a constrained environment. It was a great initiative taken by Gujarati cultural association of the college for students of junior and degree college students to enable them to discover their passion and culinary skills and eventually explore the various opportunities to shape their culinary career in future. My co-judge chef Shushant Parab, the executive sous chef of Hotel Shahara star was extremely knowledgeable and amicable personality and with his guidance and cooperation we could do justice to the young competitors.

cooking competition

The judgement was given based on various parameters including innovativeness, taste, organizational skills, teamwork, creativity etc.

judging sheet
judging sheet

The students used various ingredients like bread, biscuit crumbs, milk, vegetables etc. to  prepare ingredients ranging from chaats, Shakes, ice creams, salads ,sandwiches  and even cakes. The final dishes were delicious as well as creative. Some of the dishes worth mentioning were:-

Barbie doll Cake

Slices of bread soaked in sweetened whipped cream sandwiched whipped cream ,fruits, fennel seed candies and  mint flavored sprinklers.

Barbie doll cake
Barbie doll cake

Bread chumchum

Bread based sweets soaked in sugar syrup and flavored with coconut. Absolutely delicious. The texture was melt into mouth and yum.

Bread chumchum
Bread chumchum

Mini sandwiches with sabja seeds

Tasty pin-wheeel sandwiches prepared with the filling of vegetables and rolled on chia  seeds which gave a crunch to the sandwiches.

mini sandwich with sabja seeds
mini sandwich with sabja seeds

Freak shake

A pretty looking milkshake with ice cream powdered chocolate and a hint of coffee.

Freak shake
Freak shake

Maggi bhel

Sounds weird. But surprisingly it tasted great. Prepared with a combination of Maggi noodles( straight from the packet), roasted peanuts and various spices.

Maggi Bhel
Maggi Bhel

Chocolate canapes

Edible mini baskets  were topped with chocolate truffles prepared with cocoa powder, condensed milk, digestive biscuits ad chocolates forming crunchy chocolaty balls.

Chocolate canapes
Chocolate canapes

Sprout canape chaat

The edible canapes were filled with sprouts and various vegetables and spices. It tasted great and looked healthy.

Sprout canape chaat
Sprout canape chaat

Chocolate lava cake

The idea seemed great. The mini cake was prepared with bread, condensed milk, cottage cheese, biscuits etc. filled with flowy chocolate Hershey’s syrup at the centre but a lava cake needed to be served hot, so the dish failed to  impress .

Bread lava cake
Bread lava cake

Corn cones

Roasted papads stuffed with spiced corn kernels.

Corn papad rolls
Corn papad rolls

 

Overall it was a memorable day ,wonderfully spend among the young students and colleagues and food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aboutindrani

Indrani Sen is a teacher,lecturer in Information Technology/Computer Science for the past 12 years. She has authored 4 text books in Information Technology.
She is passionate about cooking and loves to blog about food and travel.This blog is like my baby as I have built it from scratch by myself with little help from colleagues ,friends and of course Google.

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