A Millet's Recipe Competition was held today at Government College of Education, Sector 20 in collaboration with MGNCRE. Faculty members, non-teaching staff and students enthusiastically participated in this competition. This event was the second in the series to celebrate the International Year of Millets 2023. The first event which was held earlier included an awareness drive on Aahar Kranti by NGO Nivedita Foundation headed by Dr. Virender Garg, OSD to the Union Health Minister, Govt. of India.
Various dishes were prepared by the participants using millets as core ingredients such as foxtail millet, browntop millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet and little millet etc. The judges of the contest were Dr. Vandana Sharma from MCM DAV College, Sector 36; Dr. Sapna Nanda, Principal, Government College of Education, Sector 20; Dr. Ravneet Chawla, Associate Professor, Government College of Education, Sector 20 and Miss. Bharti Goel, Faculty, University Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Judges appreciated the efforts of participants who made delicious recipes using millets.
Among the staff members, the first prize was won by Dr. Balwinder Kaur who prepared sorghum cake and foxtail smoothie. The second prize winners were Dr. Neelam Paul and Ms. Gurmeet Kaur who prepared Barnyard millet dosa, uttapam, khichdi and kheer and also Dr. Anjali Puri who prepared schezwan foxtail millet bowl and millet pudding. Third prize winner was Dr. A.K. Srivastava, Dean of the College who prepared Bajra Pua and Ms. Rekha, who prepared Kodo millet kheer.
Among the students, First prize winner was Kamini who prepared Ragi Idli, second prize was given to Raveena Gill and third prize winner was Navjot Kaur and Consolation prizes were given to Komal and Prakriti.
Today's contest successfully signified the inclusion of millets in diet for healthy living and to promote environment sustainability.
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