- Mar
- 14
- 2018
Chef excellence on display at Ultimate Chef Challenge
Last week, the 7th Annual Ultimate Chef Challenge showcased our chefs’ culinary skills by balancing exceptional flavors with nutritional guidelines as outlined by the Northwell Healthy Choice nutrition criteria, ultimately raising the bar to change the way people think about hospital food.
Team Pineapple was truly together with registered dietitians to win the competition by creating an appetizer, entrée and dessert that not only met the Healthy Choice criteria, but yielded great flavors and presentation, all of which can be brought back into the kitchen to enhance food experiences for our patients, visitors and employees. The recipes all met sodium and fat guidelines that are heart healthy.
This year’s National Nutrition Month theme, “Go Further with Food,” gave chefs and dietitians the ideal platform to exemplify the health system’s Food and Nutrition Transformation – to serve people food that tastes good, is good for you and supports the environment. Each team was challenged to incorporate a mystery basket of ingredients — kale, fennel and red bell pepper — to their dish. The variety of interpretations using the ingredients showed the range of creativity of our chefs, and those recipes will also be available soon.
To get you started, Team Pineapple is delighted to share their Healthy Choice recipes with you in a printable PDF:
Appetizer – Eggplant Tofu Napolean
Entrée – Seared Bay Scallop, Roasted Fennel Citrus Salad
Dessert – Banana Strawberry Zabaglione
Team Pineapple. L to R Ronee Saad, Intern; Jicenis Gonzalez, RD, LIJ; Carole Hilly, Chef, Plainview Hospital; Nick Pagerie, Chef, Phelps; Tom Mencaccini, Chef, LIJ; Claudio Natalio, Chef, Lenox Hill; Britanny Bartolillo, RD, South Oaks.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14: Today is Registered Dietitian Day. Stop by and meet the dietetic interns at tables throughout Northwell Health for nutrition tips and educational information. Click here for the full National Nutrition Month calendar of events.
Coming soon: Watch for more Ultimate Chef Challenge Healthy Choice recipes on the Employee Wellness intranet page, featuring dishes prepared by 3 more teams of Northwell chefs.
Hello,
If I may………
To bring more expansion to the Northwell family, I would like to introduce the a new vegan chef of “The Ethnic Vegan” a 100% plant based, soy free catering company based out of Bridgeport, CT. Her recipes comes with a tasty and spicy twice. She would love to schedule a phone call meeting with the dietary chef here at Northwell to discuss options on collaborating. In the meantime, please feel free to visit her website: http://www.theethnicvegan.com & http://www.instagram.com/theethnicvegan
Best,
Casey Hungreder
Good afternoon, Sandra,
Thank you for sharing this information. I’ll forward this to our Health Promotion Manager in Employee Wellness so she can review.
Best,
Dina Morgan
Great talent! Hope to see these items on our lunch menu. 🙂
Hi Linda,
Thank you for your input. Each day, you can find a Healthy Choice hot entrée or cold grab-n-go in our site cafeterias. We will also be adding many more Healthy Choice recipes to the Employee Wellness intranet page, find them under Nutrition & Healthy Choice.
Best,
Dina Morgan