Savoury • Sweets Breakfast • Scones • Soups Gluten Free • Vegan Sweets Range 40 Contents Gourmet Muffins 42 Texas Muffins 44 About Us 4 Sweet Breads 46 Traditional Greek Sweets 48 Savouries Range 6 Gourmet Filos 8 Breakfast Range 50 Premium Filos 10 Premium Vegan Filos 12 Scones Range 54 Provençale Quiche 14 La Grande Quiche 16 Soups Range 58 Home-Style Round Lasagne 18 Square Lasagne 20 Finger Food Range 62 Petite-Round Lasagne 22 Finger Food Platters 64 Frittatas 24 Mini Muffins 66 Gourmet Rolls 26 Savoury Tarts 28 You’ll be proud to Vegan & Gluten-Free Range 68 Deep Dish Pies 30 Vegan 70 Connoisseur Pies 32 Gluten Free 72 serve Helen’s Tortilla Bakes 34 People eat with their eyes before they start tasting. Savoury Muffins 36 That’s why we create delicious food that is still made by Side Recipes 74 hand not machine, giving it the appearance that it has Gourmet Scrolls 38 been created from scratch in your kitchen. Combined with a passion and love that’s added to every Helen’s product, Freezing & Defrosting Tips 78 you’ll want to tell people you made it yourself. Our People 80 Marketing Support 82 Supporting you all the way 83 3 For over 25 years Helen’s European Cuisine Whilst the business has grown, the love and have been hand-making wholesome and passion behind every Helen’s product hasn’t traditional savoury and sweet food, just like changed. To deliver a complete authentic Yia-ya used to make! The desire to bring looking and tasting product solution, to cafes happiness to people through food and bring and restaurants, handmade with local fresh friends and family together is entrenched in ingredients, using Helen’s traditional recipes. the DNA of Helen’s. Providing products you’ll be proud to serve to your customers, who will think that you’ve Helen’s European Cuisine started with Helen made them yourself! herself, in her humble home kitchen. Anyone enjoying a Helen’s product can Her deep and infectious love of food quickly taste the wholesome fresh ingredients that transformed from a personal passion, to a are contained within it. Taste the love that flourishing business. goes into each and every product, feeling the passion that inspired Helen herself, to start her journey and that her son Jimmy continues to bring into Helen’s European Cuisine today. Thanks Mum x 4 5 SAVOURIES ies Savour Our comprehensive range of savoury products are the perfect flavour filled centrepiece, for many delicious meals. They taste as good as they look and are packed with local, fresh ingredients providing a balanced meal that will delight customers and keep them coming back. From a wide variety of perfectly cooked gourmet filos, lasagnes, quiches and frittatas, through to gourmet rolls and tarts, there is something available for everyone and every taste. You’ll be proud to serve them as your own, as much as we’re proud to serve them to you. 6 7 SAVOURIES Creamy Chicken Chicken, Sundried Chicken, Bacon & Mushroom Tomato & Pesto & Avocado Whole chicken tenderloin Whole chicken tenderloin Whole chicken tenderloin marinated in white wine, marinated in a light basil marinated in white wine, enfolded enfolded in a creamy pesto, enfolded in a cheesy in a creamy avocado and homemade sauce with pesto sauce with finely capsicum sauce with a hint of sautéed mushroom, onion, chopped shallots and lemon and chopped bacon bits. shallots and parsley. sundried tomato strips Chicken, Mango Chicken & Bacon Italiano Chicken & Macadamia Whole chicken tenderloin Parmigiana Whole chicken tenderloin marinated in white wine, Whole chicken tenderloin and crushed macadamia enfolded in a creamy combined with our authentic nuts combined in a sweet homemade sauce Napolitana sauce, made from mango and pawpaw relish. generously sprinkled with Italian crushed tomatoes, chopped bacon bits. plus the added bite of tasty Parmesan cheese. Satay Chicken Chicken & Avocado Creamy Chicken Roast Pumpkin, Whole chicken tenderloin Whole chicken tenderloin & Camembert Spinach & Fetta and crushed roasted marinated in white wine, Whole chicken tenderloin A rich and colourful filling of peanuts combined in a mildly enfolded in a creamy marinated in white wine, oven roasted pumpkin, with spicy, homemade satay avocado and capsicum enfolded in a creamy simmered garden spinach sauce with fresh herbs and sauce with fresh parsley and Camembert cheese sauce enfolded in a creamy cheese spices. a hint of lemon. with finely chopped onion blend of crumbled fetta, onion and shallots. and spices. Fresh: 4ºC chilled 5-7 days chilled 200gm each 6 units per Frozen: -18ºC frozen 10 months frozen approx. carton LEGEND: Gluten Free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy Free Contains Nuts 8 9 SAVOURIES Filled with a delicate flavoursome balance of fresh ingredients, our indulgent Premium Filos are filled and rolled by hand before being baked to a golden puff perfection. When combined with a simple salad or side, these generous Filo’s will satisfy your hungriest customer all year round. Helen’s products are beautifully presented and look amazing in our cabinet. We sell a number of Filos and Rolls in our café and “ our customers consistently tell us they taste delicious. We are proud to serve Helens’ products to our customers. Garden Spinach & Fetta Abel from Rhino Café, Ipswich Simmered garden spinach enfolded in a creamy cheese blend of crumbled fetta with onion and spices. Butter Chicken Tender Steak & Tender Steak & Rosemary Lamb Succulent chicken pieces, Guinness Mushroom Tender chunks of lightly slowly cooked in a classic, Tender chunks of topside steak Tender diced steak marinated in seasoned lamb, enfolded in mildly spiced Indian Sauce. marinated in Guinness beer, red wine, combined with fresh a rich homemade rosemary combined with caramelised field mushrooms and chopped and herb gravy. onions in a rich homemade gravy. shallots in a rich homemade gravy. Roasted Fresh: 4ºC chilled 5-7 days chilled 180gm each 6 units per asparagus on page 75 Frozen: -18ºC frozen 10 months frozen approx. carton LEGEND: Gluten Free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy Free Contains Nuts 10 11 SAVOURIES Our new Vegan Filo’s have been handmade to provide you with appealing products, which will put a smile on the face of the growing population searching out vegan food choices. Premium Vegan Filos Packed full of flavour, these plant based Filo’s are 100% vegan with no compromise on taste or quality. In fact they could easily become a favourite for non-vegans too. Sweet Potato Sticks on page 74 From the moment I found these Vegan Filo’s at the Brisbane Hospitality Expo, “ I was excited to introduce them into my café. They’ve been flying out the door ever Mexican Vegan Filo Curry Vegan Filo A delicious Mexican style blend A true Garam Masala curry inspired since. I couldn’t recommend of lentils, chickpeas, celery, recipe including sweet potato, capsicum, onions, beans, mixed ginger, carrot, chickpeas, coconut them highly enough! with cumin, paprika and chilli cream combined with tumeric, cumin spices, wrapped in layers of and white pepper, wrapped in layers golden filo pastry. of golden filo pastry. Josh B – Café Owner, Teneriffe 100% Fresh: 4ºC chilled 5-7 days chilled 165gm each 8 units per Vegan Frozen: -18ºC frozen 10 months frozen approx. carton LEGEND: Gluten Free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy Free Contains Nuts 12 13 SAVOURIES Our individual Provençale Quiche recipes have been improved with a new delicate buttery shortcut pastry base. These handmade quiches will look incredible in your cabinet and deliver on taste as much as they deliver in their appearance. Whoever said that ‘real men don’t eat quiche’, may just have to have a good hard re-think! I really love Helen’s Cuisine. I found out about you by asking “ a cafe in Beenleigh where they purchased their products. I have now had two cafés in Quiche Lorraine with Garden Spinach Streaky Bacon & Fetta the area and always Revamped with a crispy Simmered garden spinach use Helen’s products. streaky bacon topping! blended with crumbled fetta, Shallots, mature cheese and onions and spices. They are great and a buttery shortcut pastry base complete this taste sensation. very tasty. Carol T – Koffee at Tiffany’s Fresh: 4ºC chilled 5-7 days chilled 210gm each 8 units per Frozen: -18ºC frozen 10 months frozen approx. carton LEGEND: Gluten Free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy Free Contains Nuts 14 15 SAVOURIES Family meal times at the Helen’s household always guarantee one thing – wholesome, homemade culinary creations – and lots of it! Now it only seems fair that we share the joy these meals brought, with the rest of Australia. After all, sharing is caring and there’s always plenty of oven-baked goodness to go around. Which of these (12 serve sliced) La Grande Quiche’s will you choose to dress up your display cabinet? Back in 1993 I discovered Helen Zeniou and was blown away by the quality of her home-style traditional cooking. I bought her home-made “ products for our first store and the response from my customers was La Grande Quiche Lorraine overwhelming. Here I am many, Diced bacon with tasty cheese many years later, a continuous and freshly chopped vine ripened tomato. customer with stores all over Australia and Helen’s products still playing a big role in our menu mix. John Lazarou – Joint Founder & Current Director The Coffee Club Roasted Mushroom and Thyme Hearty whole champignon mushrooms, wild thyme and mature cheese, all baked into a rustic short crust pastry. Pre-cut – Fresh: 4ºC chilled 5-7 days chilled Approx 12 Slices 2kg Frozen: -18ºC frozen 10 months frozen per carton LEGEND: Gluten Free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy Free Contains Nuts 16 17 SAVOURIES Reminiscent of cosy times in our Yai-ya’s kitchen, Lasagne is where the Helens story began and to this day is still one of our most popular products.