Contract catering chefs win Red Tractor Pork competition

Devised to raise awareness of Red Tractor Week (14-20 June) and encourage chefs to put Quality Assured pork dishes on the menu, chefs simply had to submit a recipe featuring pork and other Red Tractor ingredients. Moore-Harper won with his pressed ham knuckle with summer vegetables piccalilli, Hampshire watercress foam and pork scratching and Vaca rustled up a pork meat ball in spicy red pepper sauce. The other winners were Ben Keggins, development chef for the Orchid Group and Peter Manner, head chef at The Lygon Arms Hotel. All of the winning chefs received a £50 'Red Tractor Goody Box' containing a joint of Red Tractor pork along with Red Tractor potatoes, vegetables, strawberries, cream and beer. The recipes have been professionally styled and photographed for use in a BPEX Foodservice Red Tractor awareness recipe leaflet which will be published in the autumn. The dishes will also feature on www.redtractor.org.uk and www.porkforcaterers.com. Additionally, the four dishes will be served by the chefs at their outlets with Orchid Group, Elior and Charlton House (all of which are Red Tractor licensees with more than 1,000 units) looking at incorporating their dishes on to other unit's menus. Tony Goodger said: "We had a great response to this competition and it just goes to show that there are many chefs using quality Red Tractor ingredients. The four chefs whose recipes were chosen as the winners should be very proud of what they have achieved and we wish them many congratulations. "Caterers looking to include Quality Assured pork dishes on their menu should take inspiration from these four award winning dishes, though there are plenty more recipe ideas on-line at www.porkforcaterers.com."