Ventura Foods Seafood Base paste 16 oz jar — concentrated lobster, shrimp & crab flavor for soups & sauces

Ventura Foods Classic Gourmet Select Seafood Base is a concentrated seafood paste in a 16 oz jar that adds consistent lobster, clam, shrimp and crab flavor to soups, sauces, bisques and seafood-forward dishes.

This ready-to-use seafood base is formulated to deepen seafood recipes quickly and predictably. Use it when you want a dependable, restaurant-style briny backbone without long stock reductions. The paste blends smoothly into simmering liquids to provide body, balanced sweetness and an amplified seafood character that works across appetizers, entrées and finished sauces.

How will this seafood base change my weeknight soups and chowders?

Adding a spoonful of the Ventura Foods base immediately increases mouthfeel and savory depth so soups taste richer without hours of simmering. It preserves bright, briny notes while supplying enough body to carry cream or tomato bases.

• Use 1–2 teaspoons per cup of liquid for a noticeable lift
• Dissolves evenly in simmering broths and cream-based chowders
• Helps maintain consistent flavor batch after batch

Can I use this base to build seafood sauces or finishing pan sauces?

Yes—this seafood paste is designed as a foundation for sauces that need authentic shellfish character. It blends with butter, cream, wine or tomato to create cohesive pan sauces and glazes that coat proteins and pasta evenly.

• Meld with browned butter for a lobster-style finish
• Add to reductions with white wine for shrimp sauces
• Stabilizes emulsions when whisked into creams or beurre monté

What kinds of recipes are best suited to this product?

The base is optimized for seafood-forward preparations—bisques, gumbo, risottos, paellas and sauce-based pasta—but it also supports mixed dishes like stews and casseroles that benefit from added depth. Use it wherever you want reliable shellfish notes without sourcing and reducing shells.

• Seafood bisques and chowders for enhanced richness
• Seafood stews, paellas, risottos for consistent umami
• Finishing sauces for fish, shellfish, or pasta dishes

How does the jar hold up in a professional kitchen or busy home cooking?

The 16 oz jar is sized for both small commercial kitchens and serious home cooks, offering consistent performance across multiple uses. The paste format stores compactly, portions easily with a spoon, and integrates quickly into hot liquids for time-saving application.

• 16 oz jar for extended use and multiple recipes
• Spoonable paste that measures and dissolves cleanly
• Formulated for repeatable results in high-volume cooking

Who is this for? Ventura Foods Classic Gourmet Select Seafood Base is aimed at chefs, caterers and home cooks who want dependable, professional-grade seafood flavor without the time investment of making shellfish stock from scratch. If you prepare soups, bisques, sauces or seafood mains and need consistent, scalable flavor each service or meal, this jar gives you a reliable foundation to build from while preserving bright briny notes and improving mouthfeel.

Ingredients

SEAFOOD (LOBSTER, CLAMS, SHRIMP, CRAB), SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, DRIED SWEET WHEY, BUTTER (SWEET CREAM, SALT), PALMAND SOYBEAN OIL, ONION POWDER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVORING, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA. CONTAINS MILK, CRUSTACEAN SHELLFISH (LOBSTER, SHRIMP, CRAB).