High Impact Veggies

High-Impact Veggies

Maximize the flavour of your vegetables with these easy techniques

Today’s vegetable-centric trend sees a lot of love given to vegetables, both in cooking techniques and flavour combinations. Roasting, charring, blistering, grilling—these all bring out the sweet, caramelized, smoky side of veggies. Flavour boosters—from marinades and glazes to dollops of luscious cheese or bits of crispy pork—help tell a signature story.

Menu Sightings

This new attention to vegetables speaks to a larger trend in foodservice, in which guests expect fresh food cooked with big flavour.

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Execute this major trend without overextending your staff or ordering in too many new SKUs.

Quick MarinadesIdeas on how you can tap into the veg-centric trend, using ingredients and products you already have in your pantry.

Prepration Methods

  • Braised in pork stock or tomato sauce
  • Grilled or charred
  • Roasted or blistered
  • Pan-seared
  • Wood-smoked
  • Pickled

Big Finishes

THE BIG THREE

Technomic’s 2015 Consumer Trend Report tells us that, in the vegetable category, carrots, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts show impressive menu mention growth.

530 percentage

BRUSSELS SPROUTS menu mentions are up 530% over the last four years, according to Datassential Canadian MenuTrends

Vegetable Centric Technique

Vegetable-Centric Technique

Cauliflower Vegetable Centric Technique

Vegetable-Centric Technique

98 Percentage

Cauliflower has grown on menus by 98% from 2011 to 2015, according to Datassential Canadian MenuMonitor.

Carrots have grown on menus by 78% from 2011-2015, according to Datassential.

Carrots

Vegetable-Centric Technique

Note from our Chef
Note from our Chef
One challenge with cooking vegetables is the variance in a single type of veggie, depending on the supplier. Starch and sugar levels can change, so make sure you adjust cook time and flavour add-ins depending on what you get.
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