Bueno Foods knows that you are always working to control raw material costs and increasing labor costs while creating innovative solutions to delight your customer. We are committed to working with you, our customers, to help in these efforts and provide convenient, high quality solutions. The following are some innovative plate presentation ideas for cross utilization purposes or to use convenience items possibly already in your pantry to help reduce inventory on the shelf.
Center-of-plate Items:
- Change the shape of the plated rice by using a pedestal or serve a la carte.
- Change the look of the plated rice by using whole grain rather than white rice.
- Instead of rice with tomato sauce, add pureed cilantro stems with chicken stock and lime.
- Infuse the rice, while cooking, with Bueno® Red Chile Puree, cloves, cinnamon, anise, coriander, cumin, or other spices.
- As an alternative to rice, use yam, potato, quinoa, lentils, or other whole grains.
- Change the shape of the plated beans by using a pedestal or serve a la carte.
- Change the look of the plated beans by using whole beans rather than refried beans.
- Infuse the beans, while cooking, with Bueno® Red Chile Puree.
- Add smoky notes of ancho or chipotle chile.
- Add caramelized onion to give sweetness and complexity to the background flavor.
- Use a different type of bean, rather than pinto, such as Scarlet runner, Anasazi, black beans, or red beans.
- Rather than beans, create a ground corn cake, with Bueno® Stone Ground Corn Masa, sweet corn, cheese, and beans.
- Other alternatives to beans are to use dark greens such as collards, kale, chard, or spinach.
- Finally, use Buenatural® Vegetarian Tamales filled with corn, zucchini, and cheese.
- To change the looks of a plated sauce pour Bueno® Flame Roasted Green Chile Sauce on the bottom of the plate rather than on top of the main entrée in order to anchor the elements.
- Combine Bueno® Red Chile Puree with various herbs and spices such as, cloves, cinnamon, anise, coriander, cumin, or other spices to create a signature sauce.
- Choose from a variety of ready-to-heat-and-serve Bueno® sauces... or let Bueno customize your sauce for the flavor profile of your region and taste preferences of your customers.
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