Hazera Alam Munni from Chittagong won the best chef of the year award for 2010 in the ‘Monitor-Malaysian Palm Oil Chef of the Year’ competition.
The Bangladesh Monitor, a travel magazine, organised the competition for the sixth time.
The gala award ceremony was held at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka yesterday.
Munni was awarded Tk 50,000 for her recipe — Minced Soya Tehari. Mahmuda Sharmeen from Dhaka bagged Tk 25,000 as the runner-up prize for her recipe for ‘Bhetki fish with pineapple, garlic and green pepper’.
Mahbubul Alam, editor of the Daily Independent, who was present at the award giving ceremony as chief guest, gave away prizes among the winners.
“We have been organising the competition for the last six years to popularise Bangladeshi cuisines at home and abroad,” said Kazi Wahidul Alam, editor of the Bangladesh Monitor.
The jury panel picked up the awardees from the live cooking demonstration in the competition, among ten finalists.
Earlier in June recipes were invited from participants of Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna regions. About 5,000 recipes were received from all over the country.
Later four regional finals were held in the headquarters of those regions.
An eight-member jury committee led by culinary expert and nutritionist Siddiqua Kabir did the judgement in the competition.
The winners also got certificates and crests.
