Gluten -free kitchen has A bad reputation rightly so. It is not because wheat has a good -taste monopoly: whole countries and cultures will not agree. It is rather that cooks too often do things that desperately need gluten to be what they are: pancakes and waffles, for example, or southern fried chicken. Or, Lord, help us, pizza.
And so whenever I tried gluten -free plates among the many meal kits that I have examined, it was with a little fear – the most I find myself in constantly chewing a tapioca pancake, or breaking my own heart on a soft zoodle tray.
Photography: Matthew Korfhage
Which is a whole prelude to say: gluten -free meals from the organic meal brand from HelloFresh, Green Chef, were a good surprise. More than half of Green Chef’s recipes are gluten -free, a quality with which the brand attests Warm validation and full throat of the gluten intolerance group based in Seattle, which offers certification for gluten -free ingredients and restaurants.
Find out more about this validation and what it means, in a little. But first, I would say that among a week of gluten -free meal from Green Chef, I did not miss the gluten. I did not miss it, because apart from an exchange of gluten -free amino sauce (Here is a popular brand) Instead of a small soy sauce, none of the meals should have or should have gluten anyway.
Rather than doing pale imitations of gluteny things, the meals of the green chief were dishes that had never needed wheat in the first place. This can include a bowl of grilled chicken with curly cabbage and quinoa with North African spices, steaks in a red pepper sauce with green peas and rice, or a bowl of rice garnished with cabbage and shrimp with ginger with honey.
Everyone was a fully achieved and appetizing meal, which took between half an hour and an hour for me to prepare myself after receiving a box of ingredients and Green Chef recipe cards by post. No one had the impression that an ingredient was missing. Here’s how the green chef works.
Organic, generous, quite often gluten -free
Photography: Matthew Korfhage
Founded in Boulder, Colorado, Green Chef was formerly a competitor of HelloFresh (7/10, Wired Review), the German meal flour brand that helped establish meal kits as a prosperous business model in dozens of countries. When HelloFresh broke the green chef in 2018, the Titan Kit-Kit positioned Green Chef as his biological alternative: Green Chef announces that all his products and eggs are biological, unless otherwise indicated. (Meat is currently the same meat, mainly used by other brands in HelloFresh, mainly high -end product cuts from inherited American providers and producers.)
