Simple chicken seasoning recipe made with few pantry ingredients to give you the best flavorful dishes. This all purpose seasoning blend is easy to make, packed full of flavor, and can be used on chicken thighs, wings, legs, and whole chicken.
Simple Chicken Seasoning Recipe
It takes 5 minutes to make this simple chicken seasoning recipe, it's all purpose and you can use it on any part of the chicken. You can even use it on other meat like lamb, steak and it's also great on vegetables.
This healthy chicken seasoning blend is sure to take your chicken from bland to fabulous and you need just 8 ingredients to make it.
A mixture of spices and dry herbs, It's easy, quick, versatile and the ingredients used are pantry staples that are inexpensive and you most likely have them in your pantry anyway.
No special tool is required to make it.
You can make it in a big batch and store it for future use for grilling chicken, baking, boiling, broiling, or air frying chicken.
It's healthy, sugar-free, msg free, and salt free so you can salt the chicken to your taste. It is also gluten-free, low carb, paleo, and Keto friendly.
This is the best chicken seasoning mix and everyone should have this dry rub in their pantry. It has everything to make chicken aromatic, flavorful, and juicy.
Ingredients you'll need
For this simple chicken seasoning, you'll need these 8 ingredients. The quantity listed in the recipe card at the bottom of this post makes 8 tablespoons which will season up to 4kg/8lb of chicken.
Paprika
Black pepper - You can substitute with chili pepper flakes, chili pepper, or cayenne pepper.
Thyme
Parsley
Oregano
Rosemary
Garlic powder
Onion powder
How to Make Simple Chicken Seasoning
Dry a small bowl and spoon. Add all the ingredients into the bowl and mix till well combined.
Pour the mix into a dry mill and blend (This is not necessary but it makes the mix well combined and gives a smoother texture).
It's ready to use and store.
How to Use it and How much to Use
There are loads of recipes we'll be bringing to you that make use of this blend so stay tuned. In the meantime, you can use this on any type of chicken including chicken thighs, legs, chicken breast, a whole chicken. You can also use it on any other bird like turkey, goose, duck.
For chicken, use 2 tablespoons of this blend per 1kg chicken. Remember to salt the chicken as desired as this is a no salt chicken seasoning mix.
How to store and how long does it last
It will last up to a year depending on the expiry date of the herbs used, as a general rule, use the nearest expiry date of the ingredients. For example, if the parsley used has the earliest expiry date and expires in 6 months, and Oregano has the longest expiry date and expires in 12 months, your spice mix expiry date will be 6 months.
To store, pour in a spice container or an airtight container, label with dates, and store in a cool dry place away from direct sunlight.
As it's so easy to put together, I recommend you mix in small batches to keep it fresh.
Pro Tips
- Dry the tools before use because this is a dry rub and you want to keep it dry so as to safely store it for use. If it is wet, it might get mouldy and unsafe to use.
- Adjust pepper to taste. If you like it hotter, add more pepper and if you find the quantity of the pepper overwhelming, reduce it.
- You can substitute the black pepper for cayenne pepper or chilli pepper flakes.
- It's perfect as it is but if there are any other herbs you like in your seasoning you can add your favorite herb or spice into the mix.
How do you make the seasoning stick to chicken?
Adding a little bit of oil to the chicken will ensure the seasoning sticks to the chicken. I like to use olive oil most of the time but you can also use vegetable or sunflower oil.
Tools Required
Mixing bowl
Measuring spoons
Spice jar or airtight container
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Simple Chicken Seasoning Recipe
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Measuring spoons
- Spice container
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon Paprika
- 2 tablespoon Parsley
- 1 tablespoon Thyme
- 4 teaspoons Oregano
- 1 tablespoon Rosemary
- ½ tablespoon Garlic powder or granules
- ½ tablespoon Onion powder
- 1 teaspoon Black pepper or cayenne pepper.
- 1 tablespoon Tarragan Optional
Instructions
- Dry a small bowl and spoon. Add all the ingredients into the bowl and mix till well combined.
- Pour the mix into a dry mill and blend (This is not neccessary but it makes the mix well combined and gives smoother texture).
- It's ready to use and store.
Notes
- Dry the tools before use because this is a dry rub and you want to keep it dry so as to safely store it for use. If it is wet, it might get mouldy and unsafe to use.
- Adjust pepper to taste. If you like it hotter, add more pepper and if you find the quantity of the pepper overwhelming, reduce it.
- You can substitute the black pepper for cayenne pepper or chilli pepper flakes.
- It's perfect as it is but if there are any other herbs you like in your seasoning you can add your favorite herb or spice into the mix.
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