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The 2007 Winner - Stephen Duffy
2007 Finalists
The 2006 Winner - Murray Mariappan receiving his award from Mohammed Sabir, Chairman Aagrah Group of Restaurants, one of the competition sponsors.
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2009 First Place: Siddartha Singh Rathore (Welsh Region)Second Place: Tina Ditchfield (Welsh Region) Third Place: Amardeep Singh Anand (Southern Region) Healthy Heart Award: Amardeep Singh Anand (Southern Region) Runners-Up: Rashid Ali Khan (Midlands Region) Mahesh M Rathudi (Northern Region) Guru Prasad (Midlands Region) Avijit Mondal (Northern Region) The 4th Annual South Asian Chef Competition (SACC) had kitchens sizzling. Top chefs across UK participated to spin their spatulas, loop their ladels and prime their pots to pit their culinary skills against other masters of the art of South Asian cooking to win a place in the national finals of SACC with a £1,000 winner’s cheque, plus other fabulous prizes for the runners up. Results from the National Finals are: 1st place Anand George, Mint & Mustard, Cardiff Chefs were tested at the regional heat culminating in an edge-of-seat cook-off at the famous, Leeds Thomas College, where the judges chose the three most outstanding cooks as winners. The competition, which aims to encourage chefs to be creative and adventurous with their recipes, is open to professional chefs able to produce South Asian Cuisine from all culinary and cultural backgrounds currently working in restaurants, hotels and for food manufacturers. High-profile SACC awards recognise outstanding achievement in all areas of culinary skills. It also helps to raise the profile of the restaurants participating and brings companies to the attention of UK’s leading businesses attending SACC’s glittering national awards dinner held October 13th. 2007 Standards were exceptionally high throughout all regional heats and the judges were most impressed with all those who participated. We are delighted to announce the name of the 2007 winner: Stephen Duffy - Head Chef The 2007 Finalists were: Mr Mahfuj Alam Sardar – Chef Proprietor Hansa Dabhi – Chef Owner Avijit Mondal - Chef “Murray” Mariappam - Head Chef (SACC 2006 National Winner) 2006: Second place Third place Runners Up Everyone received a crystal trophy and a framed certificate. The winner took home a winner’s trophy, a cheque for £1,000 and will receive full media exposure in the UK and Europe. The second and third places received £500 and £250 respectively. The competition organisers would like to thank the panel of judges chaired by Michael Quinn MBE. Michael’s team included award winning chefs Cyrus Todiwala MBE, and Udit Sarkhel, along with Robert Cockroft, food critic Yorkshire Post Newspapers The SACC Management Team would like to thank our generous sponsors, supporters and the seven colleges involved for their continued support. The 2005 winner Kaushey Patel seen here being presented with her second prize by Daniel Clayton, National Sales Manager (North) of Electrolux, who kindly provided a mini combi-oven to add to the catering equipment in Prashad’s Bradford restaurant kitchen. Kaushey also received £1,000 for winning the 2005 competition and will be going to the Ethnic Food Exhibition in Paris in June just days after the 2006 Regional Finals which take place in six colleges across the UK. ©2010 |
