Essential Cuisine Premier Veal, Lamb, Red Wine, Vegetable, and Chicken Jus deliver the quality of a traditional five-star jus in minutes, ensuring a consistent supply without the need for costly bone sourcing and preparation.

This product eliminates the complexities and food safety concerns associated with handling veal, chicken, and lamb bones.

Product Features:
- Provides the meaty taste, smooth mouth-feel, and mirror-like sheen of a traditional jus.
- Gluten free.
- Freeze-thaw stable.
- Ideal as a base for reductions and sauces.
- Appropriately seasoned.
- Ambient concentrate with a 15-month shelf life.
- A genuine alternative to the costly sourcing, preparation, and disposal of bones.
- Addresses sensitive HACCP/food safety areas.
- As part of a sustainability initiative, black plastic has been removed from the branded range.

Essential Cuisine’s improved Signature range offers premium quality ingredients and exceptional flavours developed over the past decade. Utilising superior methods and extended cooking processes, this range delivers extraordinary depth of flavour, ensuring that perfection is achieved without the need for extra time in the kitchen.

Product Features:

- Crafted from the highest quality ingredients, delivering profound and authentic flavours.
- Extended cooking processes ensure greater clarity and authenticity.
- Provides a consistent, reliable solution, saving time and resources.
- Highly versatile—use as a finished ingredient or adapt with a personal twist.
- Can be reheated, extended, or adjusted to fit bespoke recipes.

Quality Ingredients:

A dedicated search for the finest ingredient suppliers has led to partnerships with those who share a passion for exceptional food, working as an extension of the kitchen team.

Improved Methods:

Enhanced cooking techniques, including better roasting of bones, contribute to the development of bolder, deeper flavours, ensuring true excellence in every product.

Sublime Tastes:

With over 200 years of combined kitchen experience, the focus remains on quality, consistency, and convenience. The improved Signature range is designed to be used as a finished ingredient or adapted to unique recipes, allowing chefs to express their creativity while relying on a dependable foundation.

Discover the allergen-free, vegan-friendly street food inspired seasoning range. Dive into global cuisine with this new collection of authentic seasonings, crafted to bring distinctive international flavours directly to your kitchen. Our skilled chefs have recreated six of the world’s most unique flavour profiles, offering an adventurous culinary experience.

Product Features:

- Developed with customer needs in mind, ensuring suitability for both vegans and vegetarians.
- Free from declarable allergens, catering to a broad range of dietary requirements.
- Expertly crafted to deliver genuine street food flavours, adding a touch of global flair to any dish.

Experience gravy as it should be, now completely gluten-free with Essential Cuisine. Independent blind taste tests have revealed that the No.1 Gravy range outperforms other leading brands in consumer taste tests, with chefs selecting all three varieties as their top choice.*

Product Features:

- The entire No.1 Gravy range is gluten-free while maintaining the authentic taste of traditional gravy.
- Rich, full-bodied flavour profiles ensure a superior taste experience. All three No.1 gravies were rated as favourites by chefs and consumers alike in independent blind taste tests.*
- The No.1 Savoury Gravy is suitable for both vegans and vegetarians, offering the traditional gravy taste without compromise.
- Beef and Chicken Gravies contain meat stock and fat/dripping, delivering the classic gravy flavour.
- Provides superior yield and maintains excellent bain-marie holding qualities.
- Freeze-thaw stable once prepared, ensuring reliability and convenience in busy kitchens.

The new British-made collection of concentrated sauce bases empowers chefs to maintain creativity while enjoying the consistency and efficiency of pre-prepared ingredients.

Product Features:

- Versatile sauces that can be used as traditional pour-over sauces or incorporated into a variety of recipes.
- Each jar produces 50 generous 100ml servings.
- Reduces dairy costs—requires 25% less cream compared to scratch-made sauces.
- Allows for personalisation with additional ingredients as desired.
- Ambient storage with a long shelf life of 15 months, even after opening.
- Freeze-thaw stable when made with fresh double cream.
- Quick preparation in under 8 minutes.
- Offers better value compared to both scratch-made and ready-to-use sauces.
- As part of a sustainability initiative, black plastic has been removed from the branded range.

This exciting range captures the essence of Asian cuisine in a simple, easy-to-use format. Designed to inspire, these Asian bases enable the inclusion of the UK's fastest-growing cuisine on your menu quickly and without compromising on taste.

Product Features:

- Each pot makes 25 litres, ensuring ample supply.
- Guarantees consistency in flavour and seasoning.
- Highly versatile and easy-to-use concentrated base.
- Both Miso and Aromatic Bases are vegan-friendly.
- Meets 2024 salt targets set by Public Health England.
- Gluten-free.
- As part of a sustainability mission, black plastic has been removed from the branded range.

The Curry Onion Sauce is crafted with naturally sweet Spanish onions and a perfect blend of spices, offering versatility and ease of use for operations with varying staff levels and culinary skills. This product simplifies preparation—just snip, tip, and heat—making it ideal for consistent service or for customization with the new range of high-performing Indian Inspired Seasonings.

Product Features:

- Superior yield and consistent quality.
- Ambient storage with a long shelf life.
- Ready-to-use for convenience.
- Clean declaration and gluten-free.
- Free from declarable allergens^.
- Counts towards 5-a-day and is vegan.
- Meets DOH 2024 salt targets* and is low in fat.
- Freeze-thaw suitable, ensuring reliability across various kitchen environments.

Immerse yourself in global culture and cuisine with the new range of Indian Inspired Seasonings. Expertly crafted to capture five British Indian curry house favourites—Keralan, Tikka, Rogan Josh, Korma, and Jalfrezi—these seasonings bring authentic flavours to any kitchen.

Designed with versatility in mind, these seasonings can be added to our Curry Onion Sauce to recreate beloved Indian dishes, or used at various stages of cooking—whether shaking, seasoning, rubbing, or marinating.

Product Features:

- Ready-to-use for convenience.
- Gluten free and suitable for vegans.
- Free from declarable allergens^.
- Meets DOH 2024 salt targets* for healthier options.
- Ambient storage with a 12-month shelf life.
- Consistent quality with a clean declaration.
- Highly versatile—ideal for shaking, seasoning, rubbing, or marinating.

Stocks are fundamental to a well-equipped kitchen, serving as the heart and soul of many recipes by providing depth and balance of flavour. Ensure that your stock delivers exceptional taste.

Product Features:

- Superior Taste: Comparable to traditionally made stocks.
- Clear Appearance: Maintains clarity with appropriate seasoning levels (typically 0.56g of salt per 100 ml of stock).
- Simple & Easy to Use: Powder stocks dissolve instantly to create stock, can be added directly to cooking, or used to enhance existing stocks.
- No GM Ingredients: Free from GM ingredients, hydrogenated oils, preservatives, and MSG.
- Long Ambient Shelf Life: Lasts for 18 months.
- Superior Yield: Requires just 12 – 20g per litre.
- Colour Coded: Packaging is colour-coded for easy recognition in a busy kitchen, and the pots are ideal for mise en place.
- Low Fat: Matches the fat content of homemade stocks per 100g sold.

Essential Cuisine offers versatile, high-quality reductions designed to elevate dishes from ordinary to extraordinary. Crafted by chefs for chefs, these reductions provide exceptional taste and adaptability.

Since their launch in 2004, the range of glaces has expanded in response to customer demand, now including Duck, Pork, and Wild Mushroom varieties.

Product Features:

- Excellent flavour profile, enhancing a variety of dishes.
- Versatile uses: spoon into sauces, mix with olive oil, stock at 25g/litre, poach meat, vegetables, and fish, or use as a marinade.
- Supports a broad range of culinary applications, adding depth and richness to recipes.
- As part of a sustainability mission, black plastic has been removed from the branded range.

Vegan Stock Mixes are crafted with the finest ingredients to ensure perfect stock every time. Convenient and versatile, these mixes can be used just like freshly made stock.

Product Features:

• Delivers an authentic taste of stock.
• Provides an appropriate level of seasoning.
• Ideal for flavouring and seasoning plant-based meat alternatives.
• Enhances the flavour of vegan and vegetarian menu options.
• Approved by the Halal Food Authority.