Willowbrook catering students showcase creativity and skills during culinary challenge

On March 14, students in Career and Technical Education (CTE) teacher Amy Nowak’s Culinary Arts 3 - Catering class participated in a culinary challenge.

For the contest, students had 40 minutes to create a dish using the seven ingredients listed below. They could choose to add other ingredients available to them in the classroom/lab, but those seven items had to be included. They were given the option to find a recipe or improvise and make their own.

• Chicken thighs
• Eggplant
• Couscous
• Pomegranate
• Goat cheese
• Dried lavender
• Lemongrass

Three Willowbrook staff members served as judges, and they evaluated the dishes based on appearance, flavor, plating and creativity. The winners are:

• 1^st place: Juniors Madison Vega and Adrian Cavazos
  
  
• 2^nd place: Juniors Trent Kovacs and Fletcher Ogren
  
  
• 3^rd place: Junior Luis Torres and sophomore Max Kraft

To view a video of the challenge, click on the video above. To view a photo gallery, click on the images below.