As January brings its usual mix of challenges and opportunities, we’ve been scouring the globe for the latest tastes and trends to ensure you have the ingredients, products and solutions to smash your new year kitchen resolutions. Whether its creative ideas, trend products, cost-efficient dishes, seasonal showstoppers, waste-free recipes or something else, stay tuned for the latest Country Range inspiration.
NEW Dough on the Double
One of the most versatile products for fast-paced kitchens, our Country Range Dough Balls have quickly become one of our most popular products. Utilised in a myriad of ways by chefs across the public catering and hospitality sectors, they’re great for portion control, offer supreme quality and just need to be thawed before use. With National Pizza Day on the horizon on the 9th February, we’re delighted to have extended our range with the introduction of larger 340g dough balls.
Great for larger sharing serves or for venues serving high volumes, doughballs are the perfect canvas for pizza, pizette, panzerotti and other regional Italian classics. This fully costed to our Calzone recipe uses one of the 340g dough balls, serves two and delivers a fantastic margin.
The doughballs are just as useful for starters, sweets, single serve snacks, creative dips, stuffed or even in other globally inspired dishes. For a stunningly simple, yet sumptuously sweet or dessert, our apple and raisin doughs balls are a thing of beauty.
The new Country Range Doughballs come in a pack containing 30 x 340g dough balls.
A New Sauce Standard
Tangy, sweet and rich with tomatoes, our new Signature by Country Range Tomato Ketchup has set a new sauce standard. With a delightful artisan appearance, deep red colour and appetising aroma, the new Signature by Country Range Tomato ketchup is also free from the 14 allergens. While many well-known tomato sauces will only include 20-30% of actual tomato per bottle, our new Signature Tomato Ketchup contains a tomato content of 35%, which provides added punch, body and the ultimate flavour.
The new Signature by Country Range Tomato Ketchup is available in a 2.5kg catering bottle for easy storage and dispensing.
Get your pulses racing
An underused weapon in the armoury of chefs, pulses are the edible seeds from the legume family which includes beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas. Low in fat but powerful in the protein, fibre and with a low GI, pulses are great for fortifying dishes for the young and old but they’re a functional ingredient and ardently adaptable as well.
A, soups, casseroles and curries, salads, stuffings, dips and starters or simply on toast, our Country Range tinned pulses are a great store cupboard ingredient throughout the year but extra valuable in the colder months.
With World Pulses Day celebrated on the 10th February, it’s time to get pulses racing. Here’s four fab ways with legumes:
- Chick Pea ‘Minestrone’,
- Five Bean Chilli topped Sidewinder® Nachos,
- Sausage and Butterbean Casserole,
- Cannellini Bean Garlic Mash
