Land O' Lakes Student Wins Statewide Recipe Challenge

Pan-seared pork cutlets wrapped in prosciutto and served with braised Swiss chard, baby carrots, mashed yucca, and tangy barbecue sauce.

Does that whet your appetite?

The above dish created by Land O’ Lakes High School culinary arts student Darryus Lowe made the mouths of judges water. Lowe, a freshman in the Land O’ Lakes High School Culinary Arts Academy, is a winner in a statewide recipe contest. He will be awarded his prizes today, May 17, for winning the 2013 Let’s Do Gourmet High School Recipe Challenge.

Sponsored by the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association Education Foundation and Let’s Do Gourmet, LLC, the competiton was open to students throughout Florida enrolled in a school program using what's known as the ProStart curriculum.

Each student had to create a recipe consisting of a protein, a vegetable, and a starch, while also including the Let’s Do Gourmet Red Adobo spice into the protein.