Bridgewater, CT – The Gracious Gourmet’s award-winning line of spreads, chutneys, pestos and tapenades are available in 76-oz. foodservice sizes — perfect for chefs, foodservice operators, caterers and wine bars. The 17 product options are perfect for any application calling for sophisticated flavor and all-natural ingredients. Three new products have recently been added to the foodservice offerinngs. Date Apricot Spread rounds out the fruit spread category, while two of the new products are part of The Gracious Gourmet’s Essentials line, which boasts quality and consistency for a single ingredient often used in recipes.
• Date Apricot Spread is great paired with cheese like ricotta, fresh goat, brie and cheddar. It can be served with chicken, duck or turkey and added to basmati rice. Also great for yogurt parfaits or served on vanilla or caramel ice cream. Two other new products, called The Gracious Gourmet Essentials, include Sautéed Mixed Mushrooms and Sweet Caramelized Onions.
• The Gracious Gourmet Essentials Sautéeted Mixed Mushrooms contain white, crimini and shiitake mushrooms with onion, lemon juice and olive oil. It provides “essential” mushroom flavor to a variety of dishes, including risottos, pasta dishes, soups, omelets and savory pancakes, to name a few.
• The Gracious Gourmet Essentials Sweet Caramelized Onions save chefs and culinary staff time by containing the equivalent of more than 10 pounds of raw sweet onions in every 76 oz. containers. Rice wine vinegar, olive oil and brown sugar accent the onions — which taste so good you can eat them straight from the jar. Use them to top all kinds of meat and fish as well as use in salad dressings, soups, pasta and rice dishes.
Also of note, The Gracious Gourmet’s Hatch Chile Pesto is competing for a gold award at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York after receiving a 2014 sofi Silver Finalist nomination for the category of Shelf-Stable Foodservice products. Hatch Chile Pesto was also named a “Hit” by Phil Lempert, The Supermarket Guru, in his online review of “New Product Hits and Misses,” garnering a 91/100 rating.
The Gracious Gourmet enlivens menus with a wide variety of recipe options for restaurateurs, chefs, cafes, caterers, event planners and wine bars using its all-natural products. These affordable and time-saving accompaniments can be used for cheese plates, roasted meats, salad dressings and more. They provide high quality consistency that adds an assurance of quality to every dish.
Developed with healthy eating in mind, The Gracious Gourmet minimizes the use of sugar, salt and oil to deliver all-natural products with impressive flavor. Because today’s diners demand sophisticated tastes for even casual meals, we’ve created nearly 100 recipes suited for foodservice to provide inspiration (located at www.thegraciousgourmet.com).
The 76-oz. foodservice are available for these products:
- Fig Almond Spread
- Spiced Sour Cherry Spread
- Rosemary Pear Spread
- Balsamic Four Onion Spread
- Apple Caramelized Onion Spread
- Cranberry Raspberry Blood Orange Spread
- Portobello Mushroom Tapenade
- Roasted Vegetable Tapenade
- Chile Red Pepper Tapenade
- Artichoke Parmesan Tapenade
- Black Olive Tapenade
- Hatch Chile Pesto
- Lemon Artichoke Pesto
- Dried Fruit Chutney
- Date Apricot Spread
- Sautéed Mixed Mushrooms
- Sweet Caramelized Onions
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