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Compendium of Spice Blend Recipes used by Hello Fresh

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Sweet100s
Sweet100s Posts: 553
edited January 2022 in EggHead Forum
A buddy recommended Hello Fresh's Shawarma spice blend recipe to me
Thought you cooking mavens here might find this collection of spice blend recipes handy: 

Lots of their spice blend recipes in an image

For clear text that you can copy and paste, then adjust to your own preference. 

=== Note - for Shawarma, I searched this forum, and this one posted by Theophan a while back looks more interesting 

However, now that I look at it, what I'm looking for is a Kofte recipe, not Schwarma. 
I'm craving Central Market's version of: 
MIDDLE EASTERN-STYLE LAMB & BEEF KOFTA

But at $12.99 / lb, I can probably make it just as tasty with ground lamb from the freezer with the right recipe...

Found these via this forum: 
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  • Plutonium
    Plutonium Posts: 230
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    Nice find, thanks for sharing!
    Albuquerque, NM - LBGE and an old rusted gasser that I use for accessory storage.


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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,491
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    Thanks for posting those!  
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  • Traviswright
    Traviswright Posts: 3
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    Sorry to break the news to you that Hello Fresh did not invent the shawarma spice blend.  Shawarma spice blend is a mix of spices used in Middle Eastern countries for making shawarma and other beef or chicken dishes. Maybe Hello Fresh is using their own mix of ingredients. Anyway, I don't think Hello Fresh is a good solution for long term food product development, because the food contains a lot of sodium and preservatives. It is not the way you prepare food at home. There might be some less sodium and preservative version of the same recipe in Better Homes and Gardens. If you like experimenting with food and want to get into food product development, I recommend checking out some food product development blogs. 
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,731
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    Traviswright said:
    Sorry to break the news to you that Hello Fresh did not invent the shawarma spice blend.  Shawarma spice blend is a mix of spices used in Middle Eastern countries for making shawarma and other beef or chicken dishes. Maybe Hello Fresh is using their own mix of ingredients. Anyway, I don't think Hello Fresh is a good solution for long term food product development, because the food contains a lot of sodium and preservatives. It is not the way you prepare food at home. There might be some less sodium and preservative version of the same recipe in Better Homes and Gardens. If you like experimenting with food and want to get into food product development, I recommend checking out some food product development blogs. 

    Too early in the thread…

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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 14,627
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    Traviswright said:
    Sorry to break the news to you that Hello Fresh did not invent the shawarma spice blend.  Shawarma spice blend is a mix of spices used in Middle Eastern countries for making shawarma and other beef or chicken dishes.

    Thank you, but I do think that’s pretty well understood here for regional spice blends in general.

    Welcome.

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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,731
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    @Sweet100s - whereabouts are you located? If you're ever in the Houston area, Phoenicia is a great place to start for all kinds of Middle Eastern ingredients, and foods. 

    You may have already thought about this, but if you can track down some ingredients like sumac, zaatar, or aleppo pepper, you'll likely end up with something delicious. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Traviswright said:
    Sorry to break the news to you that Hello Fresh did not invent the shawarma spice blend.  Shawarma spice blend is a mix of spices used in Middle Eastern countries for making shawarma and other beef or chicken dishes. Maybe Hello Fresh is using their own mix of ingredients. Anyway, I don't think Hello Fresh is a good solution for long term food product development, because the food contains a lot of sodium and preservatives. It is not the way you prepare food at home. There might be some less sodium and preservative version of the same recipe in Better Homes and Gardens. If you like experimenting with food and want to get into food product development, I recommend checking out some food product development blogs. 
    Looks like the OP's first link, at least, was free from salts and preservatives.   Since most of the spices we buy are dried and in granular form, it's not very common to find preservatives in them anyway except maybe something to keep it from caking when there are hygroscopic ingredients.  I agree putting salt in spices dilutes the value and flexibility of use as salt is cheap and everyone has a different idea of where the spice should be relative to the salt.

    rhellofresh - Hello Fresh Spice Blends


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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 14,627
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    caliking said:
    @Sweet100s - whereabouts are you located? If you're ever in the Houston area, Phoenicia is a great place to start for all kinds of Middle Eastern ingredients, and foods. 

    You may have already thought about this, but if you can track down some ingredients like sumac, zaatar, or aleppo pepper, you'll likely end up with something delicious. 
    Phoenicia in Austin as well, south Lamar.  
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    Really good stuff there if you’re interested in food blogs 🙄
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