First and second-year Hospitality Management students at CUT got an opportunity to show off their skills and innovation capabilities when they entered a maize meal competition on 30 August 2014. 

The training Chefs worked in pairs and were expected to come up with two recipes; one had to include Power Wheat Flower as the product ingredient, and another recipe had to be inspired by an innovative idea comprising of maize meal as the main ingredient. Nine teams participated in the competition and the young cooks came with tons of ideas on how to have fun with maize meal. Amazing recipes came to the forth and  Lebogang Senatle and Godfrey Makatsa with a very tasty Chicken Lasagne ala maize meal as well as a Mozzarella and Chirozo maize meal croquettes were the overall  winners of the day. The Entrepreneurial prize went to Rea Moholo and Pulane Maruping for their maize meatballs. The Regional Innovation Forum, Free State was one of the sponsors for the event. A decision was made that all participants who brought ideas to the fore be awarded with an amount of R500 for their efforts! 

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Overall Winners, Lebogang Senatle and Godfrey Makatsa. Picture 2:  9 teams who participated in the competition. Picture 3: Entrepreneurial product winners: (Middle) Rea Moholo and Pulane Maruping flanked by Chef Janice Solomons, CUT (left); post-doctoral research fellow at the Unit of Applied Food Safety,  Dr Hanita Swanepoel (right); and the OKV representatives: (far left) Mr Jaco Das, Manager of Tweespruit Maize Mill (OVK); and (far right) Mr Jaco Lonte, Manager Clocolan Wheat Mill (OVK).