Products & Services
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| Portioned Butters | IQF Portions (Individually Quick Frozen) |
Dry Ingredients & Blends | Bulk / Sachet (Ambient) | |
| Meat Free Stuffings - breadcrumbs / rice / cous cous | IQF Portions Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) |
Grated & Diced Cheeses | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | |
| Sauce & Soft Cheese Fillings – melts / toppers | IQF Portions | IQF Freezing | IQF Portions | |
| Flavoured Crumbs & Butter Crusts | Bulk / Sachet (Chilled & Frozen) IQF Portions |
Sauces, Oils & Marinades | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | |
| Classic Cooked Sauces | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | Butters, Sauces & Fillings | IQF Portions Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) |
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| Relishes, Chutneys & Dressings | Bulk / Sachet (Chilled & Frozen) | |||
| Marinades & Glazes | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | |||
| Garlic Spreads | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | |||
| Flavoured Oils | Sachet / Bulk (Chilled & Frozen) | |||
Butter processing at Markus has always been one of our core strengths, and we can offer a vast range of different product formats and flavours using a wide range of different butter bases:
- Salted / Unsalted
- Conventional / Organic
- Regional Provenance - Somerset / West Country Farmhouse / Jersey / Cornish
- Reduced Fat
- Butter Blends
Bulk Flavoured Butters
5kg / 8kg / 25kg lined boxes – Chilled or Frozen
IQF Pellets - (Individually Quick Frozen)
- Weights: 1.5g to 50g portions
- Shapes: Oval / Floret / Cog / Elliptical / Heart – please enquire for bespoke shapes
- Logs: 18mm to 60mm diameter
- Mince: Free flow – to 10mm pieces
Flavour Ideas
We can add an endless range of clean label herbs, spices, and natural ingredients to butter to create a highly visual full flavoured customer specific sweet or savoury recipe.
The most popular is always garlic butter, but even the choice of garlic is diverse:
- Fresh Garlic
- Roasted Garlic
- Honey Roasted Garlic
- Caramelized Garlic
- Smoked Garlic
- Wild Garlic...
Other popular flavours are Herb / Lemon / Cracked Black Pepper / Sun Dried Tomato / Chilli / Blue Cheese / Béarnaise / Lemongrass.
Pack Formats
| Frozen | - in polylined boxes - | 1, 4, 10 and 12.5Kg Boxes |
Please contact our NPD Team for inspiration, or to see sample of your own ideas!
Suggested Uses:
- Kiev and poultry fillings
- Themed restaurant & fast food menu uses
- Butter florets for catering functions
- Garnish for steaks
- Bastes for meat & poultry
- To sauté steaks, chops & escallops
- Garlic prawns & seafood dishes
- Artisan breads
- Fillings & garnish for potatoes
- Vegetable stir fry & steam packs
- Sweet baked desserts
Add succulence and flavour to broaden the appeal and use of meat cuts, poultry, fish and vegetables using ingredients ranging from herbs/spices and fruits to variations of vegetables.
Our innovative recipes come in a convenient ready to use formats - Portioned in a variety of shapes and logs, also available in bulk.
Stuffing Bases
We can create recipes using a wide variety of meat free carbohydrate bases including:
- Breadcrumbs- Fresh, White, Wholemeal, Ciabatta & Speciality
- Rusk
- Rice & Risotto
- Pasta
- Noodles
- Cous Cous
- Potato
- Beans & Pulses
Meat Based Stuffings
We can also supply stuffings based on cooked meat ingredients:
- Cooked Bacon
- Cooked Pancetta
- Cooked Pork or Chicken
IQF Portions & Logs - (Individually Quick Frozen)
- Weights: 5g to 50g portions
- Shapes: Oval / Elliptical & to suit
- Logs: 18mm to 60mm diameter
Flavour Ideas
We can add an endless range of clean label herbs, spices, and natural ingredients to create a highly visual full flavoured customer specific sweet or savoury recipe.
Pack Formats
| Frozen | - in polylined boxes - | 1, 4, 10 and 12.5Kg Boxes |
Please contact out NPD Team for inspiration, or to see sample of your own ideas!
Suggested Uses:
- Stuffed vegetables - mushrooms, peppers, butternut squashes
- Stuffed meat cuts and joints
- Fish – salmon joints & fish fillets
- Mushroom pâté & duxcelle
Toppings and fillings that expand the possibilities and range of different food applications.
These can be in a variety of formats:
- Crumbed ingredients blended with an oil or butter base to make a flavoured crust that seals in the juices
- Loose gratin toppings that add texture and flavour to simple dishes
- Crumb toppings with herbs, cheeses and other ingredients to make a crisp coating for a fill or top finish
- Melts that flow over or inside the dish
Various bases can be used:
- Breadcrumbs & rusks
- Rice, risotto & pasta
- Hard or soft cheeses
- Butter / cheese combinations
- Purees & sauces
- Raw, cooked & char grilled vegetables
- Cooked meats
IQF Portions & Logs
- Weights: 5g to 50g portions
- Shapes: Oval & Elliptical
- Logs: 18mm to 60mm diameter
Pack Formats
| Frozen | - in polylined boxes - | 1, 4, 10 and 12.5Kg Boxes |
Please contact our NPD Team for inspiration, or to see samples of your own ideas!
Suggested Uses:
- Gratin toppings for fish
- Flavoured crust coatings for meat, poultry & fish
- Crumb toppings for vegetable medley dishes
- Flavoured burger melts & toppers
- Crepe & sweet fillings
Our new jus and roux based sauces are cooked in the traditional way, using only the finest natural ingredients exactly as you would want to use at home. Our recipes have been carefully created to exclude all E numbers, preservatives, colours, sweeteners & flavourings. All of our sauces are freeze thaw stable.
All of our sauces start as a traditional base, which we enrich with both classic and innovative ingredients to give a full and fragrant finish.
Selections from our range include:
Classic Béchamel
Duo of Parsley & ChiveWatercress with Crème Fraiche
The classic white, whole milk, roux based sauce can be enriched with a whole host of ingredients such as nutmeg, herbs, watercress and mascarpone to give a creamy luxurious sauce accompaniment to any dish.
Rich TomatoCreamy TomatoFruity RedcurrantTraditional Apple & Cider
Classic Tomato sauces full of Mediterranean flavours can be enhanced with cream cheese for that extra luxurious finish, ideal to accompany pasta, fish, meat or poultry. Classic Jus, enhanced with fruit and bespoke ingredients to give that full and fragrant finish to meat and poultry.
Piquant Pink PeppercornOriental Red ThaiWhite Wine with Roasted GarlicWild Mushroom
The roux based rich creamy sauce can be enriched with fragrant spices and other specially selected ingredients to produce that luxury finish to any meal occasion.
Original CheddarThree Cheese MedleyClassic StiltonItalian Creamy Pesto
These creamy cheese based white sauces incorporate a classic cheese variety along with seasoning or herbs to create that full flavoured savoury characteristic.
Pack Formats
| Chilled & Frozen | - in sachets - | 10g to 1kg |
| Chilled | - in plastic tubs - | 2.5l(2kg), 5L(5Kg), 10L(10Kg), 16L(15Kg) |
Suggested Uses:
- Accompany recipe dishes
- Pasta sauces
- Cheese sauces for meat ,fish, pasta & vegetables
- Sauces and jus for meat dishes – peppercorn, wine, mushroom
- Traditional gravies
- Fruit sauces, coulis & compotes
- Confectionery sauces for desserts, ice cream
- Icings, custards & crème anglaise
Our range of relishes, chutneys & dressings are made with the finest quality ingredients. No artificial colours, flavouring or preservatives are used.
They are based on traditional recipes, enriched with classic and innovative ingredients.
Dressings
- Trio of Herb
- Buttered Mint
- Sicilian Lemon & Oregano
- Cucumber & Dill
- Pesto (nut free)
- White Wine & Summer Herb
- Mirin & Spring Onion
- Roasted Red Chilli & Ginger
- Chimichurri
Relishes & Chutneys
- Roasted Red & Yellow Pepper
- Cherry Tomato & Apple
- Tomato Salsa
- Trio of Onion Marmalade
- Thai Sweet Chilli
- Cranberry & Orange
- Pineapple, Chilli & Saffron
- Roast Beetroot & Horseradish
- Moroccan Spiced Apricot & Mango
Pack Formats
| Chilled & Frozen | - in sachets - | 10g to 1kg |
| Chilled | - in plastic tubs - | 2.5l(2kg), 5L(5Kg), 10L(10Kg), 16L(15Kg) |
Suggested Uses:
- Salad dressings
- To complement meat, fish, chicken, vegetables
- Barbecue relishes
- Burger & sausages packs
- Dips, tapenades & salsas
- Sweet dipping sauces
- Sushi dipping sauces
- Sharing platters
- Dips for pizza & garlic bread
Our range of marinades and glazes are made with the finest quality ingredients. No artificial colours, flavourings or preservatives are used. They are based on traditional recipes, enriched with classic and innovative ingredients.
Selections from our range include:
- Heather Honey & Mustard
- Orange & Ginger
- Lemon & Pepper
- Wild Garlic & Parsley
- Teriyaki & Rosemary
- Creole BBQ
- Orange Mojo
- Peri Peri
- Indian Masala
- Lavender & Honey
Pack Formats
| Chilled & Frozen | - in sachets - | 10g to 1kg |
| Chilled | - in plastic tubs - | 2.5l(2kg), 5L(5Kg), 10L(10Kg), 16L(15Kg) |
Suggested Uses:
- Meat and poultry marinades & glazes
- Barbecue marinades
- Fish brochettes
- Meat & vegetable kebabs
Our Spreads can be made from blends vegetable oils and butters and can be mixed with a variety of fresh garlic and herbs, or any other flavour to suit your requirements, to give a light and creamy consistency with a good shelf life. Our spreads are also available as an organic product.
Pack Formats
| Chilled & Frozen | - in sachets - | 10g to 1kg |
| Chilled | - in plastic tubs - | 2.5l(2kg), 5L(5Kg), 10L(10Kg), 16L(15Kg) |
Please contact out NPD team for inspiration, or to see sample of your own ideas!
Flavoured oils can be blended with natural ingredients that can give delicious flavours and look amazing.
We can use a range of oils including:
- Olive oil
- Sunflower oil
- Rapeseed oil
Pack Formats
| Chilled & Frozen | - in sachets - | 10g to 1kg |
| Chilled | - in plastic tubs - | 2.5l(2kg), 5L(5Kg), 10L(10Kg), 16L(15Kg) |
Please contact out NPD team for inspiration, or to see sample of your own ideas!
Suggested Uses:
- Pizza spreads
- Garlic breads
- Speciality and naan breads
- Salad packs
- Pasta dressings
- Barbecue cooking
- Stir fry
- Roast, griddled & char grilled vegetables
Markus packaging formats general guide – please enquire about other options.
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At Markus, we always aim to work with you and provide solutions to meet your requirements.
Bespoke recipe development
Our customers are always looking to gain competitive advantage by introducing new products with the best chance of success. Our NPD Team will work closely and continuously with all customers to help in their success.
Bespoke portion sizes & shapes
If you require a portion size or shape to meet your specific processing criteria or pack appearance then we are happy to look at developing something to suit. We can start on a trial basis to ensure that the tooling gives the desired result, before committing to expenditure on a full production machine. This also allows us to offer "specials" for relatively small / infrequent product runs, where the cost of full tooling may not be justified.
Bespoke Pack Formats
Please see our "Pack Formats" page for details of our current options. However, if you need something beyond the range shown, please speak to us. Sometimes a small change can make life a lot easier at the point of use – for example a pack weight that fits with your own batch sizes, reducing the amount of preparation required. Often, these types of change will not make a material difference at our stage of the process – one of the benefits of the bespoke service we offer.
Order Sizes
Minimum order sizes at the early stages of a product life should not be too rigid if the product launch is to succeed. We work closely with customers to help them build to regular order sizes that are mutually efficient.
Outside Stock Location
Sometimes a customer needs stock held at an outside location, like an outside store site or independent distribution depot. Maybe special delivery timings or frequencies are important. We will investigate any logistical need.
Reserve Stockholding
Fast moving products, ones on promotion, or where customer storage is limited may require us to keep a buffer stock at Markus, underwritten by the customer.
Please feel free to put "can you do…" questions to us. We will always give serious consideration to this type of enquiry to see if it could be accommodated in or even added to our current resources.
There are never problems, only solutions.
At Markus we understand the demands of the multiples / markets / accreditation bodies etc. in terms of lead time and detail required for product technical information. As nothing we develop or supply is "off the shelf", and every customer’s / retailer’s requirements vary, we are continuing to invest in software systems that are providing faster creation of this information. In the very near future, we should be able to turn around a detailed product specification on the same day that the development recipe is created – our ultimate aim is to achieve this faster than the development team can make the sample!
We are also willing to work with you on product and process development. For example, we have modified the viscosity of both oil and sauce products (sometimes more than once!) to suit customer’s process equipment. We have changed bulk products to portioned to assist with weight control and reduction of wastage. We have carried out trials with equipment manufacturers to develop products which their equipment can then automate the application of. If there is an aspect of your processing of our product that you feel could work better, then please raise it with us. The more we understand about what will work for you, the better we are placed to meet that.
We have the facilities and capacity available to pack / re-pack and/or further process products on your behalf.
Our processes include:
- Cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) freezing - for individually quick freezing of relatively small items ( as a guide, typical times from +15℃ to -20℃ are around 3 to 5 minutes)
- Sachet packing - we can pack a wide range of product types from liquids, pastes, crumbs, dry mixes to grated and diced cheeses.
Pack weights can range from 10g to 1Kg. Single colour printing is available on line, and pre-printed films can be sourced if required. Gusseted sachets also available. - Bulk mixing and blending - we have various types of mixer available, capable of blending solid, liquid and loose mixes with batch capacities of 100 to 500Kg. Pack formats can be accommodated from poly lined box to bag in box and IBC/pallecons.
- Portioning - we can portion suitable products to required weight, shape and size for own use or as specified.
