- Dish 937~ Sweet corn, peas and broccoli.
- Dish 756~ Onion, cauliflower and asparagus.
- Dish 309~ Green beans, mushrooms
Ingredients:
I will keep all of the ingredients the same so that it is a fair test but I will change the vegetables. The ingredients are: 250g of pasta shells, pinch of black pepper, 1tsp of English mustard, 175g of Italian Bacon (pancetta), 25g of flour, 25g of low fat butter, 125g of Edam cheese, and 300ml of skimmed milk. I will use 60g of each vegetable so that there is not more of one vegetable than the other.
To make it a fair test I have used all the same ingredients apart from the vegetables; I cooked all of the vegetables in the same steamer, and cooked the sauce and pasta for the same length of time using the same equipment. To make it a fair test when testing the products I blindfolded the tasters and used random numbers so that they were unbiased.
Test 1~ Colourfulness:
These results show that every one of the tasters prefers the first dish, they all said they liked the 1st dish best with the 3 dish coming in second. All the tasters said that the dish looked very colourful and whichever vegetables I do use then it will look colourful. One taster said that they were all a success as they all looked good, but then added the first one was the most colourful.
Test 2~ Which tastes the best in the sauce:
This shows that most of the tasters preferred the 1st one again, but to get a better Idea of what vegetables suited the dish I decided to ask the tasters which vegetables they liked in the dishes as I had made them with more than one vegetable in each.
Dish 1.
Taster 1~ all of the vegetables
Taster 2~ all of the vegetables
Taster 3~ the sweet corn and peas.
Dish 2.
Taster 1~ the cauliflower.
Taster 2~ the asparagus.
Taster 3~ the asparagus.
Dish 3.
Taster 1~ both of the vegetables, especially the mushrooms.
Taster 2~ both of the vegetables.
Taster 3~ the mushrooms especially and the green beans went nice with the dish.
Test 3.
This concludes my testing and shows me from my results that my tasters believe that most of the vegetables went well in the dish. Now this leaves me with the decision of which ones to chose.
I will chose the peas, sweet corn and broccoli from the first dish as the vegetables are inexpensive and are easy to get hold of all year round.
From the second dish I will take none, even though 2 of the tasters said the asparagus went well in it but I believe it would be better as a side dish as I believe its texture is too soft and breaks down easily in the dish. Although it is available all year round it is very expensive. So I will use none of the vegetables from dish 2.
From dish 3 I will use both of the vegetables as they all said all of the vegetables went well in the dish. Mushrooms are available all year round and are economical. Also green beans are available in frozen form as well, which is more convenient for my product.
So in my dish I will use mushrooms, peas, sweet corn, broccoli and green beans. I am very happy with this development and I believe the colourfulness of the dish will entice the customer to buy the product.
