It’s more of a brown color. It’s from the soy and the sweet chili sauce!!
OrbitingExplorer
Cooking them in the sauce! Tastes a lot better in my opinion 🙂
toadaly_rad
In that photo? AI.
Meesh1137
The soy sauce makes them that color when you cook it in the sauce.
FindYourselfACity
The soy sauce
sashasaver
If you want dark noodles, you have to use dark soy sauce (used more for a deeper color)
I use that sometimes, but they should have included or mentioned that tip.
Fair-Enthusiasm998
sauce
AGirlNamedRoni
It was delicious by the way!
pinkpiddypaws
Fixed this tonight and my noodles were the same color as yours, even with cooking them in the soy sauce.
January1171
This is what happens when your onions brown and you deglaze the pan with water! All that carmelization lifts up and turns the rest of the food that brownish color. From what I can see your onions seem more gently sauteed which isn’t going to transfer color the same way
ETA: same with the pork, it seems to be cooked harder which adds more overall color
statswoman
I was thinking they removed an ingredient without updating the card photo, but I just spent ten minutes going through the recipe search and my past deliveries and I couldn’t find any evidence of Hello Fresh using black bean paste (Marley Spoon and Blue Apron both use it a lot). My next guess for HF would be the HF “sweet soy glaze” which is nowhere near as brown.
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AI?
It’s more of a brown color. It’s from the soy and the sweet chili sauce!!
Cooking them in the sauce! Tastes a lot better in my opinion 🙂
In that photo? AI.
The soy sauce makes them that color when you cook it in the sauce.
The soy sauce
If you want dark noodles, you have to use dark soy sauce (used more for a deeper color)
I use that sometimes, but they should have included or mentioned that tip.
sauce
It was delicious by the way!
Fixed this tonight and my noodles were the same color as yours, even with cooking them in the soy sauce.
This is what happens when your onions brown and you deglaze the pan with water! All that carmelization lifts up and turns the rest of the food that brownish color. From what I can see your onions seem more gently sauteed which isn’t going to transfer color the same way
ETA: same with the pork, it seems to be cooked harder which adds more overall color
I was thinking they removed an ingredient without updating the card photo, but I just spent ten minutes going through the recipe search and my past deliveries and I couldn’t find any evidence of Hello Fresh using black bean paste (Marley Spoon and Blue Apron both use it a lot). My next guess for HF would be the HF “sweet soy glaze” which is nowhere near as brown.
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