Hari Raya Aidilfitri is around the corner, how’s your preparation
to the festive season my Muslim friends? In conjunction with this festive
season, the Raisin Administrative Committee (RAC) had introduced an array of
nutritious and delicious recipes using California
Raisins.
Aptly named ‘California
Raisins Raya Manis’, these recipes aimed to inspire a sweet Hari Raya in
aspects of creating sweet home-made culinary delights to serve family and
friends during the Hari Raya festive season.
California Raisins’ team had organise
an event held at The Cooking House, Bangsar not long ago. I was happy to join
this event and participated the cooking competition with my teammates: Pamela,
Chin Yee and Sin Yee.
Before the competition started, we
were welcome by Richard Lieu, Trade Director of Raisins Administrative
Committee. Raisins are great to munch or snack on for the whole family
especially children with natural sugar and is also a sugar replacement for many
recipes in cooking and baking. Raisins is a great source of nutrition which is
suitable to incorporate into meals amidst rising health issues due to unhealthy
diets. According to Clinical Dietitian from Tropicana Medical Centre Ms Tan Yen
Sing, studies have shown that increased consumption of fruits and vegetables
more than 5 servings a day is related to a 17% reduction in coronary heart
disease.
The California Raisins team had also introduced Chef Rohani Jelani who has come
up with the variety unique menu with the special home-made dishes. Chef Rohani
Jelani has also live demo to us on how to make Biskut Kurabia Kismis
California.
Meanwhile, she has
also shared some incredible recipes including the Savoury Nasi Kunyit “Cakes”
with California Raisins, Crème Caramel with California Raisins, Sambal with
California Raisins and Bunga Kantan, Bubur Cha Cha and many more.
Then, the bloggers’
cooking challenge started at the upper level of The Cooking House.
Thanks to
Pamela, we had come out a bento set created with California Raisins within 1
hour time.
We had make the kerabu
mango kismis, poke bowl with raisins, sweet raisins chocolates as well as a mango
raisin smoothies. We had fun cooking with California Raisins and it is indeed a
great opportunity to learn about the cooking. Our creation was not only nice to look at, and they taste really delicious too!
The judges had tasted
the dishes from each of the team, guess what? Our team namely ‘California
Dreams’ had won the third prize in the cooking competition, yay! It was a great
team effort and good team works, thanks California Raisins for the opportunity.
For more information
on California Raisins, go to;
California Raisins Website:
http://calraisins.org
California Raisins Facebook
Page: California Raisins
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