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Chef Dipna Anand Showcases Qualiko Chicken at Southall Foodservice Event
Dipna Anand and her father, Gulu Anand, held a food event in Southall.
They used Qualiko chicken to make many different dishes.
These included samosas, tandoori chicken, wings, butter chicken and shawarma.
Chefs and other food professionals tasted the food.
They wanted to see whether the chicken tasted good and worked well in busy kitchens.
They also checked whether it could help chefs make many portions consistently.
The event showed that the chicken could be used in Indian, Asian and street-food recipes.
Brilliant Gastro presented the products as useful for restaurants, stadiums, deliveries and other large food operations.
Dipna Anand and Gulu Anand hosted the Qualiko Chicken Feast at Brilliant Gastro in Southall on 7 September.
Chefs, buyers, butchers and foodservice professionals sampled Qualiko chicken in Indian- and Asian-inspired dishes.
The products included cooked thigh meat, shawarma, oyster thigh meat, wings, chicken breast fillets and shredded shawarma.
The event assessed the range for consistency, speed, portion control, reliability and labour efficiency in high-volume catering.
Brilliant Gastro demonstrated applications spanning restaurants, contract catering, stadia, street food, delivery and grab-and-go operations.
- Who
- Dipna Anand, Gulu Anand, chefs, buyers, butchers and foodservice professionals attended or participated.
- What
- A Qualiko Chicken Feast demonstrated and assessed Qualiko chicken products in commercially relevant dishes.
- Where
- Brilliant Gastro in Southall, at Parkside Yards in Southall's Green Quarter.
- When
- Monday 7 September; the articles do not specify the year for the event, but state that the original Brilliant Restaurant closed in April 2025.
- Why
- To evaluate the chicken's flavour, versatility, consistency, reliability and efficiency for high-volume foodservice applications.
Key facts
- Event
- Qualiko Chicken Feast
- Host venue
- Brilliant Gastro, Southall
- Hosts
- Dipna Anand and Gulu Anand
- Products tested
- Cooked thigh meat, shawarma, oyster thigh meat, wings, chicken breast fillets and frozen shredded shawarma
- Cuisine focus
- Indian- and Asian-inspired food
- Applications
- Restaurants, contract catering, stadiums, street food, delivery, food-to-go and grab-and-go
- Brand owner
- MHP Foods, the company behind Qualiko
Quotes
Dipna Anand
Chef and co-host of the Qualiko Chicken Feast at Brilliant Gastro.
“Dad and I were genuinely impressed by how well the Qualiko products performed across the dishes. In our business, flavour will always come first, but when we’re producing food at scale in our CPU, we also need consistency, reliability and products that help our chefs work efficiently. Whether we’re cooking for the restaurant, our delivery business or large-volume stadia catering, we need to know we can reproduce the same quality time after time. The Qualiko range gives chefs a versatile starting”
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“When you have spent your life in restaurants and catering, you know that a product has to work in the kitchen as well as taste good on the plate. You need consistency, you need to control waste, and you need something chefs can work with quickly when the kitchen gets busy. I liked the quality of the Qualiko chicken, and, importantly, it took our marinades and spices extremely well. That makes it very useful for Indian and Asian cooking, where the chicken needs to carry flavour.”
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