Contract Catering
Catering for travel, workplace, defence, government, energy, stadia, conferences, airport lounges and major events.
Contract catering is a fast-paced, multi-faceted sector that demands flexibility, consistency, and innovation across a wide range of environments. We understand the unique pressures of serving diverse audiences, often at scale and under tight deadlines.
Our extensive range is designed to help you meet these challenges head-on. Many of our stocks, gravies, sauces, seasonings and sauce bases are gluten free, suitable for vegan and vegetarian diets, and meet 2024 Public Health England salt targets – giving you the confidence to cater for every requirement without compromising on flavour.
With the expertise of our development chefs and the quality of our products, we bring you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to keep menus fresh, exciting, and perfectly suited to any setting.
Introducing Our Street Food Chef Sauces!
Introducing Our Asian Korean Style Base
Our Customers: Chartwells
Our Customers: Bidfood
Latest sector news...
Our Top 10 Dressings and Sauces for Summer 2021
If you are looking for a salad dressing or sauce for your summer creations, look no further! We have a selection of recipes inspired by cuisines from around the world to inject exciting flavours to your menu.
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Our Top 10 Salads!
At Essential Cuisine we are famous for our stocks, sauces and gravies, providing the perfect ingredient or accompaniment for autumn and winter menus. However, many products in our wider range are perfect for summer dishes, providing a fantastic platform for a whole host of innovative and healthy recipes. From our most popular Premier Jus products to our latest range of Street Food Inspired Seasonings, you will find an offering just as relevant for the spring and summer.
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Recipes to 'Turn Up The Heat' this summer
As our ‘Turn Up The Heat’ competition comes to a close on 31st May, we wanted to inspire your entries with a range of dishes suited to the warmer weather. With people opting for staycations over trips abroad, we have focused on global flavours, giving a real sense of adventure! From authentic Asian flavours to dishes you’d find in an American diner; our development chefs have combined their favourite recipes to help you ‘Turn Up The Heat’…
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‘Wings and Things’, another delicious recipe series from Essential Cuisine
The street food market in the UK has seen huge growth in recent years, surpassing the fast-food industry with an estimated total value of £1.2 billion in 2020. Like no other industry, the street food scene continues to change and evolve. We are here to continue inspiring your offerings with global influences. Below, we are sharing our new ‘Wings and Things’ concept in hope to inject some flavour-packed hand-held options into your menu.
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Marinades, our top 10 recipes!
As we gear up to ‘Turn Up The Heat’, we are continuing to develop delicious recipe concepts to inspire your creations this Summer. Marinating is a well-used method to create deeper flavours in both meat and plant-based dishes. It typically involves soaking meat, fish or vegetables in a combination of oils, wine and herbs and leaving for hours to build up the flavour intensity.
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We’re Supporting National Vegetarian Week, Are You?
Today (May 10th ) marks the start of National Vegetarian Week! This year is pinned by the ‘Veggie 123 Challenge’, encouraging everyone to nominate two people to embrace vegetarianism for 7 days. According to BritishCouncil.org, 5.7% of the British population is vegetarian, that’s three million vegetarians across the UK. This figure continues to grow year on year, demonstrating the importance of having plant-based offerings on your menu.
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Celebrating British Beef Week
Starting tomorrow (23rd April 2021), this year is set to have a particular focus on the beef industries sustainability and environmental credentials. Figures show that UK beef production boasts a carbon footprint of just less than half the global average. Jilly Greed, who co-founded Ladies in Beef with NFU president Minette Batters, said the food industry was “constantly evolving”. "This year we wanted to demonstrate how the beef sector is progressive and wanted to demonstrate its environmental sustainability credentials.
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The Future of the Roast Dinner
It is no surprise that us Brits love our roast dinners, in fact according to research by Kantar, roasts were consumed a whopping 1.28 billion times in 2019. So what is the driving force behind this much loved classic and how are chefs going to keep their offerings fresh in years to come?
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