Each ingredient within our IQF Asian vegetable range is prepared ahead of time. This can help save time, resources, and money.
The range includes many key ingredients that you would expect to find in Asian dishes including IQF garlic puree, IQF ginger puree, IQF chillies, and IQF spring onions plus water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and edamame beans.
Each ingredient is available frozen, extending the shelf life and minimising costs.
We also have a range of onions and garlic that comes ambient, so if freezer space is an issue, this might be the perfect alternative for you.
Importers of Asian Ingredients
As Asian ingredient importers, we introduce great quality ingredients to the UK market, importing from countries such as Sri Lanka, China, India, Iran and Pakistan. All suppliers we work with go through a strict approval procedure to ensure that the products we import meet our internal standards, helping you produce your range with confidence.
Traceability is so important to us as it allows our customers to know exactly where their ingredients are coming from and how they have been farmed/produced.
We work closely with our customers to meet requirements and provide innovative ingredients, filled with nutrients, flavour and natural goodness. Each bulk-buy ingredient comes in a variety of sized packaging ready to suit your manufacturing process, easily adding that distinctive Asian flavour to your recipe with ease.
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Bulk Asian Ingredients Available for Manufacturers and Food Service
It’s important that we offer our bulk Asian ingredients in a number of formats, sizes and different packaging, to suit our customers production needs.
PRODUCT | FORMAT | PACKAGING |
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Bamboo Shoots | Sliced 30-50MM | 56 x 10KG |
Chilli – Red & Green | Diced 2-6MM, Pureed | 56 x 10KG |
Chinese salted fermented black beans | 4 x 5KG | |
Coconut ingredients | Milk/cream plus other options | See coconut page for more info |
Edamame Beans | 56 X 10KG | |
Ginger & garlic | Dehydrated & IQF purees available | |
IQF Garlic | 20G puree tablets | 56 X 10KG |
IQF Ginger | 20G puree tablets | 56 X 10KG |
IQF or Canned Water Chestnuts | Sliced | 56 X 10KG |
IQF Spring Onion | 3-5MM 30-50MM | 56 X 10KG |
Mirin | 14% ABV caramel free | 18L x 60 |
Miso paste | Red/yellow paste | 25KG |
Rice vinegar | 5% acidity | 25L/1000IBC |
Rice wine | Shaoxing 14% ABV Wheat free/caramel free 10% ABV | 20L x 45 |
Soy sauce | Light/dark Low salt Gluten free | 25KG |
The Big Questions
Asian ingredients to have on hand
The base of most Asian dishes includes onion, chilly, garlic and depending what cuisine you are working with, ginger.
Rice and noodles are used within most Asian dishes as a side, to compliment the never ending layers of flavour.
The most popular Asian flavours
The most popular Asian cuisines found in European countries include Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai and Indian.
Within these cuisines you will find a common combination of flavours and ingredients including ginger, garlic, sesame, chillies, onions and umami flavours.
What does Chinese cooking wine do?
Chinese cooking wine not only helps to enhance flavour, but it also helps remove fish-like aromas and greasiness from meat and fish.
High in amino acids, Chinese cooking wine also offers that all importantĀ rich aromatic flavour that works so beautifully in Chinese cooking.
Which vinegar is good in Chinese food?
Rice wine is very popular in Asian cooking. Its slightly sweet taste makes it the perfect ingredient to use for pickled vegetables, sushi rice and salad dressings.
Why Brusco?
Brusco’s range of Asian ingredients offers authentic taste and quality, essential for recreating traditional dishes with genuine flavours.
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