Previous winners and finalists have set the culinary bar extremely high, creating delicious and inspired dishes which also make a positive impact on the planet.
Chef Dominique Doer, from France, the winner of our first ever sustainable chef challenge created a ‘land and sea’ dish; roasted vegetables, grown around the Paris region, with an iodised seaweed salad dressing. Whilst one of the finalists Chef Ashwin Iyangar, from India, created a spinach and chickpea Mappas curry with a beetroot upma and a spinach stem salad from the leftover spinach stems.
Last year the joint winners wowed the panel of experts including the German three-Michelin stars Chef Thomas Bühner with their dishes. Chef Sharon McConnell, from Northern Ireland, created a pistachio crusted celeriac steak and a vegan chocolate mousse with dates and nuts. Chef Ricardo Machado, from Brazil, created a sautéed banana peel medallion with sweet potatoes and a banana and coconut mash.
We are excited to see what this year’s entrants bring to the table (pun intended!).
This is the third year we are holding this competition, because we know the huge difference cooking in a sustainable way, on a global scale, can make.
As a company we continue to use new ingredients and design plant-forward recipes to ensure we meet our goal of 70% of our main dishes being labelled as ‘low-carbon’ by 2030. Having a workforce full of chefs passionate about sustainability means that our ‘low-carbon’ dishes will be prepared perfectly all over the world. And this is the key thing. To change the eating habits of those who eat with us, a sustainable dish must not only be good for the planet but also good for our health and most importantly delicious!
This is just one of the ways we are working towards Net Zero by 2040!
Find out more about Sodexo sustainable food.