Ivanna Institute of Fashion Technology & Hotel Management

Ivanna Institute of Hotel Management organized a salad festival on Sunday 29^th August 2010, in which the hospitality students made a wide variety of salads and smoothies.

Ivanna IHM has been conducting food festivals at regular intervals. The student of the institute pursuing diploma and degree in Hotel Management under the PTU Distance education mode participated in this contest, where they made salads using different vegetables, fruits, chicken, eggs, and other meat products.

Some of the salads prepared were - Tropical Chicken Salad, Greek Coleslaw, Honey Glazed Apple and cheese  salad, Murg and cone salad, , Cold cuts, Deviled eggs, , Egg and Potato salad, Russian salad, Roasted pepper and paneer  salad, Paneer with peppery  orange dressing, Macroni  and peanut salad, , Minty Waldroffe Salad, Vegetable Crudites with assorted  dressing, , Mongolian warm salad, Potato Scoops with  sour  cream, Egg mayonnaise, Daikon and Bhallots (in Japanese mayo), Mast va Khiar, Chicken Hawaiian  salad, and, Game and Grape Salad with aromatic  vinegar. The smoothies prepared were-  Mango smoothie, Cucumber and green chilly smoothie , Orange Smoothie, Tomato Smoothie , Burrani Smoothie, Litchi Smoothie, Honey and Ginger Smoothie, Butter  Scotch Smoothie, Mint Smoothie, and, Strawberry Smoothie.

Salads are a hot favourite healthy food item at restaurants and fast food joints all over the world. Different sauces, seasonings and spreads add to the taste in fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs and poultry used.  With very little cooking, and more of tossing with flavours, these fat free food items are gaining popularity amongst all health conscious people.

Mr Harish Rai Dhanda, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Punjab presided over the festival and tasted the innovative preparations of salads.

The festival was also visited by many hoteliers from the town. Chefs and other personnel from kitchen and service departments of different hotels also visited and appreciated the efforts of the staff and students of Ivanna IHM. Manmeet Sodhia, Director expressed her gratitude to the chief guest and other guests for coming and encouraging the efforts of the students. “ It is our staff and students who keep coming up with different themes for the festival and work towards creating innovative recipes” Earlier Ivanna has had Noodle festival, Festival of Rajasthan, Yogurt Food Festival, and Festival of Indian Traditional Cuisine.

Mr Shailender Khatri, Ms Vandana Pawar, Col Ravi Kapoor judged the preparations of the students and award for best three preparations were given to :

I-                    Mandeep Singh II- Sandeep Kumar III- Rahul Chohan