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Proudly supporting working kitchens with expertly crafted products, designed to elevate your menus and enhance your creativity.💙🍴

Proudly supporting working kitchens with expertly crafted products, designed to elevate your menus and enhance your creativity💙.

24/04/2026

Turkey & Smoked Bacon Stroganoff with Wild Rice 🍽️

As turkey continues to grow in popularity as a versatile, health conscious protein, this dish shows how it can be used to deliver comfort, depth and familiarity. Lean yet full of flavour, turkey works beautifully in classic recipes where balance is key. 🦃

In this stroganoff, our Turkey Stock Mix is used as a core ingredient within the sauce, building savoury depth and enhancing the natural character of the meat. GTMS Sour Cream is incorporated into the sauce to create a smooth, rounded stroganoff base, delivering richness without overpowering the dish.

A great example of how turkey can be confidently featured in familiar formats, offering diners something recognisable with a modern menu twist. 👨‍🍳✨

To try this recipe for yourself, click the link on our story!

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23/04/2026

🥩 Great British Beef Week is here! 🇬🇧

Today marks the start of Great British Beef Week (23–30 April 2026), a nationwide celebration of British beef and the incredible farmers behind it.

Now in its 16th year, this industry‑led campaign was created by Ladies in Beef to champion the local supply chain that brings British beef from farm to fork, from farmers and butchers to pubs, restaurants and farm shops.

To show our support, we’re sharing a delicately braised British beef cheek with potato, made using our Signature Beef Jus. The beef is slow‑cooked with red wine, onions, garlic, bay leaves and thyme, creating a rich, glossy jus that the beef beautifully absorbs. Served with potatoes and braised cabbage (or your favourite seasonal veg), this dish is a perfect example of just how delicious British beef can be.

We’re also proud to work with Love British Food, supporting the growers and producers behind the ingredients we enjoy ❤️

👉 Find the full recipe via the link in our story

22/04/2026

Celebrating International Earth Day! 🌍🍽️

This International Earth Day, we’re taking a moment to share how sustainability shows up at Solina. From reducing our environmental impact to supporting better nutrition and responsible sourcing, our approach is built around making food that matters, for people and for the planet.

Our 2030 Sustainability Roadmap above sets out how we’re embedding sustainability across everything we do, from farm to fork. 🌱🍽️

It highlights our commitments to healthier and more sustainable innovation, recyclable packaging, reduced carbon emissions, and responsibly sourced ingredients. Alongside this, we’re investing in our people, strengthening transparency and reporting, and building a more resilient, ethical food system for the future.

We’re on a mission to make food that’s good in every sense of the word: good for people and good for the planet!

To learn more about our sustainability journey , click the link on our story! 🔗

21/04/2026

Behind the scenes at Essential Cuisine HQ 🎥📸👀

Lights, cameras, action! From filming and photography in the kitchen to across the site (and even above it!), today’s been an exciting day capturing content. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on… something exciting is coming soon ✨

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20/04/2026

Jerk Creole Jambalaya 🌶️🍚

Our Street Food Chef Jamaican Jerk Style Seasoning is a punchy fusion of herbs and spices, finished with a kick of Scotch Bonnet chilli. Its versatility makes it perfect for adding bold flavour across a wide range of dishes.

To show how easily this seasoning can work on your menu, we took inspiration from the classic Jamaican‑style Creole Jambalaya. Using our Jamaican Jerk Style Seasoning, Chicken Stock Mix, and a drizzle of Absolutely Saucesome Sweet Chilli Sauce, we created a vibrant, flavour‑packed rice dish that delivers on both heat and depth.

This recipe is a great example of how our Street Food Chef Jamaican Jerk Style Seasoning can bring excitement and street‑food flair to your menu.

👉 Want to try it for yourself?

Tap the link in our story to request a sample of our NEW seasoning.

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16/04/2026

✨ Classic Comfort, Finished with Flavour ✨

🍽️ Recipe highlight: Turkey & Sage Sausages with Sweet Potato Mash and Caramelised Onion Gravy

This dish puts a refined twist on a comfort‑food favourite, bringing together warm, familiar flavours with a touch of finesse.

Our Turkey Stock Mix is used as a seasoning in the sausage mix, adding depth and richness while enhancing the natural flavour of the turkey, finished with our No.1 Chicken Gravy poured generously over the top to bring the whole dish together and deliver real impact on the plate 🤍

It’s a great example of the versatility of our Stock Mixes, showing how a kitchen staple can be used in more than one way to add value, flavour and consistency across your menu 👨‍🍳💡

👉 To see the full ingredients and method, click the link in our story.

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15/04/2026

The team had a brilliant day at the Food & Drink Event at Football Club ⚽️🍽️

Over on the stand, was busy offering customers samples of the much‑loved Dip Pot range, from Garlic & Herb and Perinnaise to Deluxe BBQ, Chilli Ketchup and more.

Meanwhile, and were on the Essential Cuisine stand serving up festive-inspired dishes to spark ideas for seasonal menu planning.
Guests enjoyed:
✨ Turkey roulade with mash, sprouts & No.1 Chicken Gravy
✨ Cranberry & lentil bake with mash, sprouts & No.1 Savoury Gravy
✨ Miso, caramel & ginger cheesecake using Crème Anglaise
It was fantastic to spend the day chatting with customers, serving samples, and sharing plenty of delicious food along the way.

A huge thank you to for hosting such a great event, and to everyone who stopped by our stands 👋

📲 To see which events we’ll be attending next, check the link in our story.

14/04/2026

🔥 Recipe highlight: Jerk Chicken & Hot Honey BLT 🔥

We recently showcased our Street Food Chef Jamaican Jerk Style Seasoning at the HRC Show, ExCeL London, using it in our Jerk Chicken & Hot Honey BLT recipe to demonstrate its punchy flavour profile. The response from visitors was overwhelmingly positive.

Built on toasted pizza dough bases, this standout dish layers:

🍗 Jamaican Jerk Style Seasoning–marinated chicken breast

🥓 Crispy streaky bacon

🌶️ Absolutely Saucesome Salsa

🥬 Fresh spinach

🍯 Finished with hot honey and Garlic Mayonnaise

The result? A perfectly balanced sweet-heat hit that customers couldn’t get enough of, ideal for small plates, sharing menus or street food-inspired specials.

Ready to bring jerk flavour to your dishes with ease?

👉 Tap the link in our story to request your free sample and try it for yourself.

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13/04/2026

🧡 The Ultimate Meat-Free Yorkshire Pudding Wrap 🧡

Yorkshire pudding wraps have taken the UK street food scene by storm, and while there are countless savoury variations out there, our latest creation with Tofoo Co might just top them all. 👀🔥

For this recipe, we’ve paired Tofoo Co Smoked Tofoo with our bold Essential Cuisine Street Food Chef Zesty Chermoula Seasoning, then added roasted veggies and a generous helping of stuffing. Everything is wrapped inside a golden Yorkshire pudding and finished with a drizzle of our rich, velvety Essential Cuisine No.1 Savoury Gravy to bring it all together.

The result? A vibrant, flavour-packed meat-free wrap that’s comforting, creative and ready to elevate any menu. 🙌
Perfect for street food concepts, grab‑and‑go counters or seasonal specials.

👉 Click the link below to see the full recipe and method:

https://www.essentialcuisine.com/recipes/smoked-tofoo-yorkshire-pudding-wrap/hide/

📸 Heather Wilde

10/04/2026

We had a brilliant time at the Awards, celebrating an incredible 19 winners from across the sector 👏

A huge congratulations to all those recognised, and a special shoutout to for taking home the Team of the Year award, proudly sponsored by Essential Cuisine.

It was also fantastic to see £5,800 raised for - a truly worthy cause supporting our industry.

You can read the full story and explore the full list of winners here: www.publicsectorcatering.co.uk

Congratulations again to all nominees - it’s a privilege to support such a passionate and inspiring sector.

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