Recipes Contest with Disaster Prevention Food Awareness of Rolling Stock Onishi Foods (Food Newspaper) --Yahoo! News

The highest award, "Okoge-style crispy rice bean paste"

Onishi Foods promotes rolling stock by consuming foods that are close to the expiration date of disaster prevention foods and stockpiled foods, and all employees participate in "emergency food alpha rice" to have them review the emergency foods at home. "Arrange Recipe Contest" was held. Demand for disaster-prevention food continues to grow due to the effects of successive disasters and the new corona, but there are many issues such as buying disaster-prevention food but forgetting to put it in a closet or causing the expiration date to expire. Against the background of low awareness of disaster prevention, Onishi Foods, the top of alpha rice, held an alpha rice arrangement recipe contest to review emergency food at home on September 1st, "Disaster Prevention Day". Employees submitted 107 recipes, from salads made mainly of alpha rice to desserts. In the contest, nutrition manager Terumi Kobata and food stylist Nami Iijima were invited as guest judges to judge from a professional point of view such as nutrition and deliciousness. The 12 items selected in the document screening were finally judged by the judges' actual meals, and 1 item with the highest award, 2 items with the award for excellence, and 4 items with a prize were selected.

From left: Hideo Ito, Director of Product Development Department, Onishi Foods, Kobata, a registered dietitian, Iijima, a food stylist, and Shinichi Furusawa, President of Onishi Foods.

The highest award, "Okoge-style crispy rice bean paste," is a dish of Onishi's alpha rice "Wakame rice" fried in oil and sprinkled with seafood salted bean paste. It was praised by all judges for its crispy texture, colorful appearance and excellent nutritional balance. The award for excellence, "Cheese Karikari Dry Curry," is made by spreading alpha rice "Dry Curry" thinly in a frying pan, placing cheese on it, and baking it. The crispy texture is popular with the judges, including Iijima. Anyone from children to adults can easily enjoy it. Another excellence award, "Hitsumabushi-style camp rice," is a dish that does not require tableware or cooking utensils, and is made by adding hot water to alpha rice "white rice" and canned saury kabayaki with broth. was. The recipes for all 12 products selected for the final screening, including the 3 products selected for the highest award and the award for excellence, will be published on the website in the near future.