Flora creates healthy recipe booklet for chefs

The booklet is part of the ongoing Flora Heart Age campaign, which aims to increase awareness of how leading a healthy lifestyle can help reduce the age of your heart. The booklet features 17 recipes for every meal occasion, including indulgent desserts. The team of Flora chefs worked alongside chef lecturers from Thames Valley University and Westminster Kingsway College to identify dishes commonly taught to catering students, and modernised them by replacing the butter with FLORA. Ray Lorimer, executive chef and culinary controller at Unilever Foodsolutions said: "Health is increasingly becoming a concern for diners out of home and people want to know what they are eating. By creating this recipe booklet we hope to help chefs to make everyday dishes healthier and help diners to appreciate that by making small changes, they can improve their diet without compromising on taste." "It was especially rewarding to work on the project with Westminster Kingsway College and Thames Valley University. At Unilever Foodsolutions we believe that by educating tomorrow's chefs about providing healthier alternatives, we can help them be better prepared for consumer and government demands by the time they enter the professional kitchen. Ultimately this will help ensure that consumers will have more varied and tastier, healthier options when eating out of home than they do today." Modernising the Culinary Classics will be distributed in catering colleges and universities around the UK and is available to download at: http://www.unileverfoodsolutions.co.uk/sales/culinary_classics