Tabasco Launches $10K Street Foods Competition

AVERY ISLAND, La.TABASCO launched its 2011 TABASCO® Brand Hottest Chef Contest® challenging foodservice professionals and students to create an original entrée recipe  based upon popular street foods such as like Latin American, Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean.

The competition is open to professional chefs, sous chefs and lead line cooks at restaurants and non-commercial foodservice establishments, as well as chefs-in-training. The contest awards a $10,000 grand prize to the professional chef with the winning recipe; one culinary student will be awarded $2,500 for the winning recipe in the contests student category. The professional and student category winners will be featured along with their winning recipes on TABASCOfoodservice.com.

Qualifying entries must be easy to prepare in a foodservice kitchen, incorporate easily sourced ingredients, and include one or more of the following three flavors from the TABASCO Family of Flavors®Original TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce, TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce, and TABASCO® brand Chipotle Pepper Sauce. Contestants must submit their entries by July 18, 2011, online at TABASCOfoodservice.com or by mail.

Paul McIlhenny, president and CEO of McIlhenny Co., maker of TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce, and top New Orleans chefs will comprise the judging panel and select the winners on Sept.14, 2011.

Click here for contest rules and the contest entry form .