The best floury rice bread of the year selected at a contest for new menus of local bakeries
Public Relations Division
2023.05.31
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Chung Hwang-keun, MAFRA) selected local bakeries that made the best floury rice bread this year at the ‘floury rice bread new menu contest’ hosted by MAFRA and organized by the Korea Agency of Education, Promotion and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Director Lee Jong-soon) and Korea Bakery Association (Chairman Ma Ok-cheon) on May 30.
MAFRA selected 19 local bakeries on March 30 through a public contest targeting Korean confectionery and baking masters, local masters, and confectionery and baking experts in an attempt to develop new menus for floury rice bread, and the selected bakeries developed 76 new menu items reflecting the characteristics of floury rice. Afterwards, the judging panel consisting of 15 confectionery and baking experts and 33 members of consumer groups (Korean Women's Association Headquarters) finally selected 19 excellent menus based on taste, marketability, creativity, and mixture ratio of floury rice (unable to use wheat flour other than floury rice).
“Chocolat Castella” of “Kim Tae-min’s Fermented Rice Bread” in Gyeongsangnam-do won the grand prize. The bread looks like cookie choux at a glance, but it is moisture as soft castella and glutinous as it contains floury rice. The top prizes went to two menus: “Classic mi (米: refering to rice in Chinese character) bread” of “High Ground Jeppangso (bakery)” in Seoul and “Rice B.A.P Madeleine” of “Essen Brot” in Gyeonggi-do. Also, three menus received the excellence awards: Ssuk-seolgi (mugwort steamed rice cake) of “Hare Hare Cookies” in Daejeon-si; “Apple blossoms in Dongbaekseom” of “Hong Jong-eun Bakery” in Gyeonggi-do; and “Twisted roasted rice flour bread stick” of “Vanuatu bakery” in Chungcheongbuk-do. Awards of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs went to the bakeries which received grand and top prizes, and the awards of the President of Korea Agency of Education, Promotion and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (EPIS) went to those that received the excellence awards.
MAFRA will actively provide its support so that these new menus can appeal to consumers. In order to spread the techniques of making the new menus, events to introduce such techniques (6 rounds in the second half of this year) by region will be held for local bakeries and confectionaries, while providing the recipes online so that anyone can make the new menus themselves. Also, pop-up stores or promotion halls of floury rice will be up and running at department stores·local bread festivals·food exhibitions while cooking classes will be open at culture centers of hypermarkets. Also, bread made with floury rice will be provided as snacks for “Breakfast for 1,000 won” projects run by universities.
Director General Jeon Han-young of the Food Grain Policy Bureau said, “newly introduced bread menus made with floury rice by 19 local bakeries well known for confectionery and baking masters, local experts and “Bbang ji sun rae,” known as the pilgrimage for bread enthusiasts will expand the basis of rice processed food products which used to mainly include rice cake·liquor·instant food while attracting consumers who pursue value-based consumption including healthy diet and the generation MZ who look for new trends.”