The Confederation Of Women Entrepreneurs – India (COWE) organized culinary based event “RASOI QUEEN-Season-2” in Lucknow in Association with Times of India & Navbharat times Powered by Shine Kenflow in UP on 25th July 2017. The concept of RASOI QUEEN is dedicated to all those homemakers who enjoys cooking and dream about working as a MasterChef. Turning their dream into reality and to see them grow was our aim.
RASOI QUEEN – a journey for ‘My Wife Is the Best Cook’ Or ‘Mummy Da Dhaba’ to evolving as a woman entrepreneur using her culinary skills is all about making it to RASOI QUEEN. Till now it was limited to her friends and family but now showcasing it to the world and flying high with her pans and spoons. This platform is devised to encourage the hidden entrepreneurship talent and the hesitant cook in the homemakers to get featured and get monetary as well as non-monetary benefits through this. And let’s be honest – more than a few of us have pretended our kitchen was a studio and we were the latest on Master Chef. RASOI QUEEN gives you the real feel of studio cooking. Trust us if you, as a cook out-shine, our RASOI QUEEN contest, we achieve the motto of our very existence.
The event comprised various levels which started with the Opening ceremony where the organizers, Ms. Tripti Shinghal Somani – Chairperson, COWE India-Delhi; Ms. Ruchi Maheshwari – Chairperson, COWE India-Uttar Pradesh motivated and introduced all the Chefs.
Followed by Panel Discussion on Journey of Avadh Cuisine with eminent speakers Gaurav Prakash, Ravi Bhatt, Chef Pankaj Bhadouria and Nawab Jafar Abdullah. It was further followed by Book launch of Chef Pankaj and insight on women entreprenuership schemes by Mr Srivastava from NSIC, Unit of MSME -Lucknow The event was judged by chefs Nishant Choubey, , Gautam Chaudhary Prem, Munish Pandit, Nita Mehta, Sidhartha Bhutani, Vikas Kuriyal, Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah.
The event saw more than 100 participants & about 400 audiences. The enthusiastic participants demonstrated their skills in-front of the judges.In the first round, the participants had displayed the dishes precooked by them at their home. From this round,15 semi-finalists where shortlisted .The second round was a blindfold round where the selected semifinalist had to identify the spices based on taste and aroma. After this round,11 participants were eliminated and the top 4 winners.
Winner from Final winner round to be held in September in Delhi, will bag a gift hamper of Rs. 50,000 along with a trip to Bangkok, the 1st Runners-up will take home a gift hamper of Rs. 25,000 and 2nd runners-up will grab a gift hamper of Rs. 15,000.
Thanking all our partners Acrosstheroad , BEconomy, Lionsclub, Zestee, Gvriksh, Triveni , Cornitos, NitaMehta masala, LionsClub, Glam21, Uniformunlimited, Nestle, oyorooms, IFB, Goldiee Masala, TheCentrum Lucknow and Shine Kemflo.
