text: Santee Education Complex clinches LAUSD healthy cooking competition – Daily News
  Santee Education Complex clinches LAUSD healthy…
  From left, David Martinez, Jennifer Perez and Tochtli Espinoza of Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles won the LAUSD's Cooking Up Change competition on Friday, April 8, 2016. They made sweet potatoes chicken quesadilla, healthy slaw with cumin-lime crema and grilled pineapple downtown.
  Jennifer Perez and David Martinez from Santee Education Complex work on their food. Culinary programs from LAUSD competed head-to-head at LA Trade Technical College on Friday for a chance to participate at the "Cooking up Change" National Competition in Washington, D.C. this coming June. Along with an all-expense paid trip to our nation's capital, the winning team's menu will be served at LAUSD schools. Los Angeles, April 8, 2016. (Photo by John McCoy/Los Angeles News Group)
  Tochtli Espinoza, Jennifer Perez and David Martinez of Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles won the LAUSD's Cooking Up Change competition on Friday, April 8, 2016. They made sweet potatoes chicken quesadilla, healthy slaw with cumin-lime crema and grilled pineapple downtown.
  PUBLISHED: April 8, 2016 at 8:15 p.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 6:30 a.m.
  Coming soon on a Los Angeles schools district lunch menu near you: "Sweet Potatoes Chicken Quesadilla, Healthy Slaw with Cumin-Lime Crema and Grilled Pineapple Downtown."
  That was the winning entry Friday from South L.A.'s Santee Education Complex during an LAUSD Cooking Up Change cookoff between six high school culinary arts programs downtown.
  The winning meal, by a unanimous vote, will be served at throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District.
  "They did a great job on their presentation," said Laura Benavidez, LAUSD deputy director of Food Services. "It was a combination of tasty, healthy and appearance. We'll be serving it — it was made by students, for students, for a healthy meal."
  Santee's three student chefs — Jennifer Perez, Tochtli Espinoza and David Martinez — will represent the LAUSD in June during a Cooking Up Change competition in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Department of Education.
  The winner of the Cooking Up Change finals will have their own healthy low-calorie meal served to Congress.
  Contenders had to serve a three course lunch that satisfied federal USDA requirements, cost less than $1.14 and contain less than 760 calories. The meal also had to be tasty enough to satisfy fellow classmates.
  Two schools from the San Fernando Valley had entered the LAUSD regional cookoff.
  Monroe High School in North Hills included Johnrey Pahed, Fahim Rahman and Mohammed Sulman, who entered a rotini marinara, blazed vegetables and a banana.
  Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley included Diana Del Aguila, Martin Avila and Ramon Perez, who entered a chicken Diana, garlic steamed broccoli and a vanilla apple parfait.