be our Mutti Golden Tomato Cook 2023!
Golden Tomato Cook Competition 2023
After the success of the competition for the last two years, we are back and looking for our UK Golden Tomato Cook 2023.
Think you could be the UK’s best tomato cook? We’d love for you took cook a starter, main and bonus dish with the Mutti Essentials. Simply follow the steps below to be in with a chance of winning a once in a lifetime trip to Parma, Italy – the home of Mutti, in the Italian Food Valley PLUS an exclusive mentoring experience from Chef Ben Tish.
Get cooking and we look forward to seeing your entries!
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How it works:
USE 3 MUTTI PRODUCTS
Use 3 DIFFERENT products from the Mutti Essentials range to create 3 original recipes (starter, main & bonus dish) making sure Mutti is the hero ingredient and star of the show! The bonus dish can be anything from a dessert to aperitivo – the choice is yours!
UPLOAD RECIPES
Upload the 3 written recipes with photography by 23:59 26th September 2023, making sure to select which Mutti Essential you have used in each dish
ONLINE VOTING
The 5 best recipes will be put to the public vote by 4th October 2023
COOK OFF FINAL
The 3 winners from the public voting will compete in the live final on 19th October 2023
WINNER CHOSEN
Our panel of expert judges will crown our 2023 winner
How it works:
USE 3 MUTTI PRODUCTS
Use 3 DIFFERENT products from the Mutti Essentials range to create 3 original recipes (starter, main & bonus dish) making sure Mutti is the hero ingredient and star of the show! The bonus dish can be anything from a dessert to aperitivo – the choice is yours!
UPLOAD RECIPES
Upload the 3 written recipes with photography by 23:59 26th September 2023, making sure to select which Mutti Essential you have used in each dish
ONLINE VOTING
The 5 best recipes will be put to the public vote by 4th October 2023
COOK OFF FINAL
The 3 winners from the public voting will compete in the live final on 19th October 2023
WINNER CHOSEN
Our panel of expert judges will crown our 2023 winner
THE CHALLENGE
Simply create 3 recipes (starter, main and bonus dish), using 3 different Mutti products from the Essentials range (1 product per recipe) – all we ask is that the product you use is one of our Essentials (Polpa Finely Chopped Tomatoes, Peeled Tomatoes, Double Concentrate Tomato Puree, Passata), you don’t use more than 1 Mutti product per recipe and that you don’t include any fresh tomatoes. And of course, we need to see the Mutti product as the hero of each dish – they deserve to be the star of the show!
The bonus dish is new to the competition this year and we’re excited to see what you come up with. This can be anything from dessert to aperitivo, the choice and creativity is yours!
HOW TO ENTER
See full T&Cs here
Use 3 different Mutti products from the Essentials range to create 3 recipes (starter, main & bonus dish)
Upload your written recipes along with photos of each dish by 23:59 on 26th September 2023
The 5 best recipes are available for online voting By 4th October 2023
The 3 winners from the voting will then compete against each other in the live final at Sauce by the Langham, London
The final Will take place In London On October 19th 2023, with our panel of judges where the Golden Tomato Cook winner will be chosen
WHAT YOU CAN WIN
1st place
A trip to Parma, Italy and a private cooking class with Mutti chef Carlo Casoni
PLUS an exclusive mentoring experience from chef Ben Tish
2nd place
A private virtual cooking class with Carlo Casoni, Mutti head chef
3rd place
A 3-course meal for two at one of the Eataly restaurants
4th & 5th place
An exclusive Mutti hamper
NEED INSPIRATION?
Check out our treasury of flavourful inspirations with our recipe collection to get your creativity flowing. Explore it now
And hear from last year’s winner, Kate Alexandra, as she shares some hints and tips on entering the competition.
LEARN MORE ABOUT MUTTI ESSENTIALS
Discover their unique attributes to help you figure out how best to use them in your recipes
Mutti Polpa Finely Chopped Tomatoes
The simplest way to give your food the fresh flavour of just picked, summer tomatoes. Our Polpa is unique as it’s chopped especially finely – this means it has a rich and consistent texture with an abundance of tomato pieces in every bit. It is a combination of the juice of the tomato and the pulpy part of the tomato (the part with the most flavour!)– it’s ideal for low and slow cooking as well high temperatures and short cooks. In fact, it’s even delicious used straight from the tin with no cooking at all to really capture its fresh flavour!
Mutti Passata
Made with delicious sun-ripened tomatoes that have been sieved and slightly reduced for a little added thickness, Mutti Passata is free of skins and seeds and has a smooth, velvety texture. It is ideal to add a little luxurious touch and lovely creaminess to dishes. It maintains its vibrant red colour even once cooked and is ideally suited to short cooking times. Its slightly sweet flavour and unique texture mean it makes a delicious sauce even when used on its own straight from the bottle.
Double Concentrate
This concentrate uses the same uncompromised quality tomatoes as in our chopped and peeled products, so the bold flavour is unmatched! In fact every 130g tube contains the equivalent of 700g of fresh tomatoes that have been concentrated down to make a soft paste with a dense texture. It is, of course, well suited to long cooking times but is equally suited to short cooking times or straight from the tube with no cooking at all in dressings, dips and sauces.
Mutti Peeled Tomatoes
We gently steam and peel our tomatoes to ensure these maintain a firm and fleshy texture and their natural, delicate flavour. These are also the most versatile product – they can be used sliced, chopped, crushed, blitzed or left whole depending on your recipe and are suited for long and short cooking times (or straight from the tin!). In the tin, the tomatoes are immersed in a smooth passata, giving you the added option to decide whether you use the fruits together with their sauce of if you use them separately.
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Pomodorino D’oro and the Golden Tomato Cook Competition
Have you heard about our Pomodorino D’oro award?
It takes place every year and has been going for more than 20 years. The ‘Golden Tomato’ award is awarded to Mutti’s best farmers, who’s lovingly cared for cultivation area has produced the highest quality tomatoes whilst using sustainable practices.
The award is given in three categories:
- Round tomatoes
- Long tomatoes
- Cherry tomatoes
Coming back for a 3rd year, we’re excited to find the UK’s Golden Tomato cook 2023. We’re looking for the most tasty and original 3 dishes using the Mutti Essentials range of products. Only the best cook who really succeeds in creating an innovative menu can claim the Golden Tomato cook award.
