The award-winning Aleenta Hua Hin Resort and Spa in Pranburi, Thailand has enhanced its already formidable sustainability credentials with the launch of 'Carbon Free Cooking', an industry leading initiative where produce is sourced from the property's organic farm, prepared by skilled chefs and served as the finest gourmet cuisine. 

It's a case of Aleenta Hua Hin continuing to push the boundaries of sustainability to offer guests luxury with a green flavor - a key reason why the resort was recently named the Best Sustainable Hotel (Thailand) at the prestigious International Hotel Awards. 

Carbon Free Cooking is the brainchild of Aleenta Hua Hin Resident Manager and two Michelin-star chef James Noble, the farm's creator and overseer of celebrated gourmet menus featuring the freshest locally sourced ingredients and produce. 

Mr Noble said: "The essence of Aleenta Hua Hin's The Cellar restaurant is this food. It uses purely organic food and utilises solar ovens, smoke houses and techniques based on molecular cooking to keep our carbon footprint to a minimum. 

"You can do things differently and succeed while also being environmentally friendly. Sustainability is at the core of who we are as a resort, and it's great when you can combine that with an enhanced guest experience." 

Almost all the produce used at the resort, which is close to 90% sustainable, is procured from its organic farm. That includes a community garden where locals can take what they like and pay it forward via replanting, an honour system that is a matter of community pride. 

Chicken, beef, pork, fruit and vegetables are farmed and transferred to Aleenta's kitchens by bicycle. The menu includes solar-baked lime and honey cake cooked in a wooden box lined with foil, sand-baked clams and steamed-seawater seaweed, as well as clay pots buried in the beach. 

Aleenta Hua Hin's carbon-free gourmet dishes include hand-sprayed salted beef ceviche, sun-dried tomato sauce and ice crisp linguine-farmed vegetables. This dish involves banana leaf-wrapped fillet of local beef being rubbed in sea and saltpeter before being buried for two days with fresh herbs and spices. It is then washed and finished with ginger and chill-infused sharp citrus and vinegar, as well as two week air-dried tomatoes hand crushed in a pestle and mortar. Spring-water seasoned, it is served with iced ribbon vegetables soaked in filtered water. 

Another dish is solar comfit sea bass, air-dried crispy skin, ground fermented kimchee, preserved lemons and sesame mayonnaise. In preparing this dish, solar coconut comfit hand-lined sea bass is heated to 63 degrees for 25 minutes and served on fermented cabbage garnished with one-year-old preserved lemons and hand-emulsified nutty mayonnaise, onion, red pepper and spices. 

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Notes to Editors: 

AKARYN Hotel Group specialises in the management of small luxury resorts and is the owner and management company of Aleenta Phuket in Phang Nga (www.aleenta.com/phuket), Aleenta Hua Hin in Pranburi (www.aleenta.com/hua hin) In 2015, AKARYN Hotel Group will add a new hotel to its collection. ​A​kyra Manor Chiang Mai sees the boutique hotel developer teaming up with hot design firm Manor in Singapore to create a high-end hip urban retreat with 30 rooms, featuring a restaurant and roof bar in the heart of the city. In 2016, AKARYN Hotel Group will open A​rovada Private Island by AKARYN,​ on Koh Krabay​, Cambodia​ featuring a partnership with world famous designer Kenzo who is the creative director on the project. It will consist of 40 private villas on a private island, with private butler service, restaurants and Ayurah Wellness Centre covering a spacious 2,000 square metres.