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West Yorkshire food and cookery business, Curry Cuisine, based in Tingley, Wakefield and Dewsbury, has won two Gold Star ratings for two of its handmade chutneys from the Great Taste Awards, organised by The Guild of Fine Food.

The country’s most renowned and robust food awards is the national benchmark employing the most rigorous judging system to ensure the fairest, most accurate and trusted results.

Newly launched Luxury Mango Chutney scooped a 1 star rating, while the company’s new Plum Chutney was awarded a 2 star rating. This is the third year consecutively that the company has been recognised for the quality of its products, having been awarded 1 star in 2009 for its Beetroot Chutney, which led to a listing with Harvey Nichols, Leeds and a 1 star in 2008 for its Yorkshire grown Aubergine Pickle.

The two chutneys, both traditionally handmade in Yorkshire under Curry Cuisine’s new ‘Chutnee’s Handmade’ brand, use only the best, fresh ingredients from local farmers within a 50 mile radius. The plum chutney is made with fruit from a Bradford social enterprise business, Springfield Gardens, managed by Bradford District Care Trust since 2002.

Curry Cuisine’s Luxury Mango Chutney, infused with saffron and a variety of fresh roasted spices from cumin to cardamon, is set to be listed in local ASDA stores from September, as well as Booths and online at Spices of India. The award-winning mango chutney is also available at quality food shops, such as Fodder, Harrogate.

The 2010 Great Taste Awards attracted a record number of entries. In total, 6021 food and drink products were blind-tasted, tested and discussed during two months of intense judging by 350 judges, comprising food writers, chefs, deli and farm shop owners, food producers and buyers.

Paresh Tejura, operations director, Curry Cuisine said: “We are absolutely delighted to be among the country’s most highly rated food products and to be awarded for the third year running. We are proud to be keeping everything in Yorkshire, from sourcing our fresh ingredients bought directly from local farmers to producing our products in our newly opened Yorkshire manufacturing facility in Dewsbury. We are also the only non Rhubarb producer in Yorkshire to be promoting the PDO status of Yorkshire Rhubarb on our Rhubarb Chilli jam labels.”

The Guild of Fine Food’s Bob Farrand commented of this year’s entries “It’s so exciting to see the standards of food and drink in the British Isles go from strength to strength, year after year, proving that for those who enjoy great food – it’s there to be discovered.” Farrand continued, “We have worked hard to ensure our judging process is as robust as possible. Judging teams are balanced in terms of experience, background and even gender and every Gold Award winning entry has been independently proven to be of the highest standard.”