Seafood excitement! Put "Wow!" in every bite. Anchovy to tuna spells variety. Fifty years of satisfied customers spells quality. Throughout the world, Scan American is a premier supplier of dry seafood ingredients and customized blends.
These flavorful ingredients add new dimensions to the dining experience. One ingredient or the entire blend, let us help you create that seafood dish you have been looking for.
When you think seafood, think Scan American. When creating that special food dish, let us assist you with our special blends and fine food products.
Batters
Batters are an exciting way to enhance or introduce seafood flavors to a variety of baked or fried foods. By combining Scan American's seafood flavors, extracts, or powders into adhesion or tempura batter systems one can discover new ways to taste seafood.
Bases
Scan American offers an extensive line of dry base mixes combining our seafood and shellfish flavors, extracts, or powders with a savory blend of other ingredients. They are exciting starting places for bisques, chowders, gumbos, soups, sauces, marinades, dips, batters and coatings.
Beverages
Scan American invites you to be creative and think seafood flavors as you develop your next drink or try one of our dry mixes. We offer a host of flavor combinations that will make you wonder why you hadn't thought of it before. For starters try our clam and tomato.
Bisques
Bisques are generally considered to be thick soups made with cream, your favorite shellfish, and often pureed vegetables. The most typical are crab bisque, lobster bisque, and shrimp bisque. However, it would be a mistake not to consider others like salmon bisque or smoked salmon bisque.
Scan American offers several dry crab, lobster, shrimp, salmon, and smoked salmon bisque mixes. Combine the dry mix with milk, evaporated milk, half and half, or cream. Heat to boiling with frequent stirring.
Butters
Wait until you try this! Smooth and creamy, seafood flavored butters and spreads. We all know what a wonderful ingredient butter can be.
Combine butter with the many possible combinations of Scan American seafoods, herbs, and spices. Now you have a scrumptious cooking or finishing sauce for just about anything; pastas, potatoes, seafoods, or maybe something as simple as spread for a cracker.
Bouillons
Scan American offers an extensive line of dry bouillon mixes combining our seafood and shellfish flavors, extracts, or powders with a savory blend of spices and seasonings. They are exciting starting places for bisques, chowders, gumbos, soups, sauces, marinades, dips, batters and coatings.
chowders
Chowders are a traditional but still welcome way to treat ourselves to the gifts from the sea. These hearty soups can be the introduction to a delightful meal or the meal itself. They are typically blends of your favorite seafood, milk, vegetables and or potatoes, and a touch of spice.
Scan American, like no other, can offer you the clam, crab, fish, oyster, salmon, smoked salmon, or shrimp for your own formulation or one of our chowder blends.
Coatings
Coatings can be extravagant. Sometimes they are all about crispy or crunchy. Coatings can be subtle as well.
Predusts are not showy, but they are sometimes the difference between average and excellent. They can sometimes make that shrimp even mere succulent, a great way to add a flavor boost to many battered or breaded entrees.
Croutons
Croutons add a little crunch and variety to any salad. Scan American offers several seafood based flavors combined with zesty spices and seasonings.
Dips
Scan American invites you to tempt your palate with the tastes of clam, crab, oyster, salmon, and shrimp. We have searched the seas and combined these favorites with select seasonings and spices. Blend with your unique dairy matrix and dip away.
Fritters
Fritters or "hush puppies" are a flavorful addition to any meal. Scan American offers several dry blends highlighting a varity of seafood flavors, such as cod, bacalao, clam, shrimp, and crab. Mix premix with an egg/milk mixture in a 1:1 weight ratio. Form into balls and deep fry at 350F for approximately 2 minutes.
gumbos
The word gumbo brings thoughts of the Louisiana bayou, spicy Cajun cooking, or maybe New Orleans. Whatever your reflections, Scan American invites you to sample our dry mixes. Enjoy them as they are or incorporate them into your own saucy versions.
Marinades
Marinades give each chef an opportunity to create a truly unique flavor profile. Scan American allows you to take our dry blends and do just that. Our savory blends combine subtle and not so subtle seafood components with select seasonings.
Patties
Seafood cakes and patties offer an economical and interesting addition to a meal. They can be featured as part of the main course or as appetizers.
Scan American offers several flavors in a convenient premix. Just combine the dry mix with an egg/milk mixture or an equivalent in a 1:2 ratio by weight. Mix well, let stand 15 minutes, form into patties and fry on a grill.
salad dressings
Salads have long been the dieter's friend or a welcome complement to meal time. Salad dressings are a convenient way to create new salad options. Scan American offers a variety of dry mixes, all of which include our high quality seafood flavors, extracts, and powders.
salad toppings
Our salad toppings are a blend of spices, seafood and vegetables flakes or spices. These blends are exciting ways to make a salad come alive. Scan American provides a convenient way to introduce seafood flavors to any salad.
sauces
Sauces serve a variety of purposes. We offer sauces for dipping, cooking, marinating, or served over pasta. From here to the Orient, seafoods have long been an important component to sensational sauces. Scan American's dry blends offer a convenient way to make a lot or just a little, to suit your very special needs.
Seasonings
Scan American invites you into a new world of seasonings. Our seafood seasonings provide that little extra something to take any dish to the next level. These are great blends of spices, seasonings, and seafood flavors, extracts, and powders.
Soups
Is there a country in the world that doesn't make soup? Scan American invites you to consider our dry mixes from bouillabaisse to corn and crab, as well as chowders and gumbos. Whatever the season, seafood and soup are great ways to celebrate the bounties of the sea.
Spreads
Spreads or dips have long been a great way to give a touch of seafood to almost any chip, cracker, or favorite vegetable. Scan American invites you to tantalize the tongue with the tastes of clam, crab, oyster, salmon, and shrimp. Combine our flavor combinations with your favorite cream cheese combo and let the snacking begin.
Stuffings
Stuffings have long been used to accent and provide variety to meals. They are usually a combination of bread or corn bread, spices, and other ingredients. Seafood are often "stuffed," but these hearty side dishes are great along with seafoods.
Scan American offers some great new concepts in stuffing. Just add water and stuff your favorite seafood or heat and eat.
