Saffola Masala Oats #cravenomore Food truck challenge
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Remember
my post on Saffola Fit foodie's crave no more challanege that I wrote
about Here. I recently went to take part in the second leg of the
challenge where us, the six winners fought in two teams in a food
truck challenge under the expert guidance of Chef Shipra Khanna and
Chef Saransh Goila.
As
promised in the first leg of the competition, the Food truck
challenge took place in Gurgaon's Ambience mall on July 9. The plan was
to divide the winners in two teams, each were to create dishes with
one of the new flavours of Saffola's Italian and Chinese Masala oats.
Following which I along with Kumar of Petpujaris and Shivangi of
Shivangi reviews were given the italian team headed by Chef Shipra.
Saloni of FBAI, Adarsh of Bigbhukkad and Priya of mumma's food diary
were in the Chinese team headed by Chef Saransh. Chef Kunal Kapoor was there too as a judge and to guide us through the entire event.
The
main idea behind this event was to make people aware that how
delicious dishes could be cooked with oats which not only satiate
their tastebuds but also will help them to keep healthy and fit. The
tagline Crave no more beautifully depicted the thought that there is
no need to curb your craving to keep healthy. The saffola masala oats
that comes in single serving pouch packets could be cooked in 2
minutes and through this events with the bloggers participation they
wanted to bring in more creative gourmet recipe ideas with the two
new flavour of Italian and Chinese Oats.
We
reached a day prior to the event and after a brief discussion we were
taken to the Kitchen of Leela Hotel, adjacent to Ambience Mall. It
was our first time entering a commercial kitchen and the enormous
scale of the event started daunting on us. Teams were supposed to
make a minimum of 750 plates of food each which were needed to be
ready by next evening. Chef Shipra created three amazing recipes
using Saffola Masala Oats Italian flavour and soon we started the
recipe tasting. I personally was amazed to meet Shipra Khanna, the
winner of Masterchef season 2. She not only knew what was expected of
her in the event but delivered it perfectly keeping in mind all the
pointers. Her recipes were quick, easy, healthy, used almost no fat
but tasted brilliant.
The
three dishes that our team made were Dastaan e Kebab, Nutty affair (a
chat with oats in the chutney) and stuffed mushrooms. (The recipes
would be soon posted on this page.). After the recipe tasting we
decided to finish some of our prep to lessen our burden for the next
day and decided to boil potatoes, make the tamarind chutney. We
finished around midnight and went back to our hotel only to get back
at 7.30 in the next morning.
The
next morning we started early to finish as much work as possible to
get our preps done to finish the dishes and plating in the food truck
itself. We knew we had humungous amount of work in front of us but we
all were so excited that we peeled, prepared, cooked, shaped and did
all our preps in no time and finished by the afternoon.
It
was a Saturday evening the footfall in the mall was huge. on reaching
the venue we saw beautiful food trucks in green and red decorated as
per the theme. We set our station and then started all the fun. There
were huge lines in front of our truck and the four of us including
the chef worked non stop to prepare and serve food. The most
interesting part was the live feedback for which we cooks crave for.
People tasted our food and struggled to understand how we have used
the oats. Many came back again and again and some even asked for the
recipes. It was a great experience to cater to so many people,
meeting them and getting the feedback directly from them. Our food
got over within an hour and we made fresh batches of tikkis on the
venue as the demand was huge.
Though
at the end we lost the battle as Chinese team sold more plates of
food but we thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. Starting from
working in a commercial kitchen and preparing such huge quantities,
working for so many hours non stop to get our things done, meeting so
many customers who tasted and appreciated our food and finally this
beautiful initiative, where we became a part of spreading the word
that there is no fight between healthy yet tasty food.
The
show got aired in two parts on NDTV good times in the beginning of
August'2016.
It was a wonderful experience for us all. Meeting other bloggers, creating recipes that makes healthy food tasty too and most importantly getting feedback from the customers was a huge high. Thanks to Saffola for creating such a beautiful event. Will cherish these moments for years to come.
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