We’ve been getting HelloFresh every week now for at least half a year. There are many things I love about it. It’s convenient, it’s so easy the kids can cook, and they always seem to be delicious.
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One of the things I struggle with is replicating the recipes where they use an unknown sauce or special seasoning blend. After doing some digging all over the internet and testing I feel like I’ve figured these out. Thankfully HelloFresh tends to publish their spice recipes on their Facebook page or Twitter pages occasionally. There is even a HelloFresh Reddit thread where I found some.
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HelloFresh Sauce Recipes
First, we will start with the only sauce recipe I’ve managed to find and think is correct. The cream sauce is used in tons of their pasta recipes.
HelloFresh Cream Sauce Base
- 1-1/2oz (3 Tbsp) unsalted butter
- 3 Tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1-3/4 cups whole milk, heated
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Small pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- Heat on medium until thickened, be sure to whisk. Add additional flour if you need to thicken.
This makes enough for the four servings portion and it is what you use in their Oven Gold chicken Sausage Gnocchi Bake and the Chicken Sausage Rigatoni Napoletano.
Roasted Red Pepper-Cashew Pesto
- 3/4 Cup Roasted Red Peppers (from a jar)
- 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
- Salt, to taste
- 1/4 Cup Unsalted Cashews
- Juice of 1 Lemon
- Red Chili Flakes, to taste
- Parmesan Cheese, to taste
Add roasted red peppers, olive oil, and a pinch of salt into a food processor. Pulse until combined but not smooth.
Roughly chop cashews. Add to food processor and blend. Add more olive oil if too thick.
Squeeze in lemon juice and sprinkle in red chili flakes (to taste).
Grate in Parmesan and stir to combine.
HelloFresh Spice Recipes
Next up are the spices. I’ve managed to find tons of these so far. As I figure out more I will add them to this list. If you think any of them might be wrong send me a message. If you’ve managed to get your hands on one of the other spice recipes please leave it in the comments below.
When deciding how much a part is you need to decide how much you need. One part could be 1 tsp which means .5 part is 1/2 a tsp. If you want to make a lot at once you may want to do one part as a tbsp instead.
Tuscan Heat Spice Blend
- 4 Parts Basil (dried flakes)
- 2 Parts Rosemary (dried flakes)
- 2 Parts Oregano (dried flakes)
- 2 Parts Garlic Powder
- 1 Part cayenne pepper
- 1 Part Fennel (ground)
I made this with too much cayenne and our pasta was hot as hell. So, don’t measure incorrectly.
Sweet and Smokey BBQ Seasoning
- 8 parts smoked paprika
- 6 parts granulated sugar
- 2 parts garlic powder
- 0.5 (half) parts black pepper
- 1 part dry mustard
- 1 part ground cumin
- 1 part ground ginger
Fall Spice Blend
- 3 parts dried thyme
- 3 parts ground sage
- 2 parts garlic powder
- 1 part onion powder
Southwest Spice Blend
Seems like the southwest spice blend is one of the most popular spices they have, yet the simplest of them all!
- 4 part garlic powder
- 2 part cumin
- 2 part chili powder
Shawarma Spice Blend
- 2 part turmeric
- 2 part cumin
- 1 part dried coriander
- 1 part garlic powder
- 1 part paprika
- .5 part ground allspice
- .5 part black pepper
Turkish Spice Blend
- 2 part cumin
- 2 part garlic powder
- 1 part ground coriander
- .25 part ground allspice
- .25 part chili flakes
Cajun Spice Blend
- 2 part paprika
- 2 part onion powder
- 1 part garlic powder
- 1 part dried oregano
- 1 part dried thyme
- .5 part dried basil
- .5 part cayenne
Berbere Spice Blend
- 3 part paprika
- 1 part cayenne
- .5 part ground coriander
- .25 part ground ginger
- .125 part ground cardamom
- .125 part ground fenugreek
Fry Seasoning
- 1 part garlic powder
- 1 part onion powder
- 1 part paprika
Meatloaf Seasoning
- 2 parts onion powder
- 2 parts garlic powder
Tunisian Spice Blend
- 4 parts ground caraway seed
- 4 parts ground coriander
- 4 parts smoked paprika
- 4 parts turmeric
- 4 parts chili powder
- 4 parts garlic powder
- 1 part cayenne pepper
- 1 part cinnamon
- 1 part ground black pepper
Blackening Spice Blend
- 3 parts smoked paprika
- 1.5 parts paprika
- 1.5 parts onion powder
- 1 parts garlic powder
- 1/2 part white pepper
- 1/2 part black pepper
- 1/4 part thyme
- 1/4 part Oregano
- 1/8 part “low-heat” cayenne pepper
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Hi! This is awesome! Thank you! On the cream sauce base, is that the 2 or 4 person serving??
This makes a lot, so I would say four person.
Would you help me with the amount of spicesblends?? I understand tablespoon teaspoon etc but I’m no sure if parts. For example 3 parts. Is that 3 tablespoons????
Depends on how much you want to make. If you only want a little then do it as 1 part = 1 tsp.