Wholesale Spices and the Well-Stocked Kitchen

Professional restaurant kitchens rely on wholesale spices and bulk spices to keep their foods tasting great. There are a whole host of organic spices that you will want to keep on hand, with specialty bulk spice added depending on the cuisines featured at your restaurant. Wholesale spices are offered to businesses that will resell the spice in some fashion, be it in cooked foods or to the public in a health food or grocery store setting.

Basic ingredients used regularly throughout the cooking day should always be kept on hand. These types of bulk spices include black pepper, sea salt, cinnamon, garlic powder, dried basil leaves, dried thyme leaves, dill weed, cumin, nutmeg and other oft-used culinary bulk spice.

Once you have the basics taken care of, you will next want to turn your attention to specific dishes that you cook and for which you need specialized wholesale spices. Chinese cuisines often feature ginger, garlic, five-spice powder, star anise, dried hot chili peppers and cornstarch, among others.

Greek cuisine uses ingredients and dried herbs that would be found growing locally. These often include garlic, oregano, dried basil leaves, cinnamon, nutmeg, dill, mint and allspice. Because the climate and thus the plant life is similar to Greece, Italian foods utilize many of the same organic spices as Greek cuisine.

From these simple bulk spices you can create a wealth of different dishes. You might want to try a variety to be served as part of a Greek meze platter. Tzatziki sauce is often served with fried meatballs made from seasoned ground lamb, and it uses garlic, dill, salt and pepper as the primary bulk spice. This same sauce is also very good when served with fried falafel patties, which is made from ground chickpeas.

Italian restaurants will usually offer an antipasti selection in the appetizer course. This can include thinly sliced cold cooked meats, cold pasta salad, artichoke hearts, bean salads, salami and prosciutto, and perhaps a fish-based antipasti. This might include the fried fish, which are seasoned with garlic, rosemary, sage, crushed red pepper and parsley, all of which can be purchased as bulk spice.

Dim Sum is the popular Chinese brunch offering a number of small dishes. This might provide foods such as Ha Gow, which is made from shrimp and seasoned with bulk spices including white pepper, ginger, salt and cornstarch, which seasons the filling that is placed in a dough wrapper and folded.

Wholesale spices allow restaurants to keep an ample supply of the seasonings they need on hand for preparing their most-requested dishes.