6 Homemade Spice Blends To Season Meals

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Homemade spice blends can add wonderful flavor to a variety of recipes. It’s so easy to make these spice mixes yourself – a lot cheaper too! Here are six spice blends to season any pork, chicken, or beef dish. You can also use them in soups, a stir fry, and so much more.

Six Homemade Spice Blends

Bored with the same old flavors or tired of spending too much money on store-bought spice blends? You can easily make your own for a fraction of the price!

It’s easy to flavor your meals with these seven easy seasoning mixes. These spice blends are great because they’re made with fresh spices, contain less salt and no unwanted preservatives.

You can add these spice mixes to your stir fry, soups, and pasta dishes. You can use them as a dry rub for chicken, fish, pork and beef. The options are truly endless!

How To Use Homemade Spice Blends

There are so many ways you can use these spice blends! I recommend rubbing the spice into raw meat to get the maximum flavor. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Chicken – Sprinkle 1-2 tsp of spice rub onto raw chicken and rub it in. You can use any of these mixes for oven baked chicken legs, air fryer chicken thighs, on a whole chicken with roasted root vegetables, or with air fryer chicken legs. The spice mixes can also be used to barbecue any meats, including chicken.
• Beef – Add 1-2 tsp of spice blend to season your ground beef, add to your homemade meatballs, or season a steak before barbecuing.
• Pork – Season your pork chops with 1-2 tsp of any spice blend before pan frying, barbecuing, or baking them.
• Fish – Sprinkle 1/2 tsp overtop of cod or salmon fillets before baking in the oven. Season white fish for fish tacos.
• Soup – These spice blends can be used to flavor any soup you’re making including hamburger soup, lentil tortilla soup, or instant pot chicken taco soup.
• Stir Fry – Add 1 tsp of spice mix to a vegetable stir fry.

1. Mediterranean Seasoning Mix

• 2 Tbsp dried oregano
• 2 Tbsp dried basil
• 1 Tbsp dried minced onion
• 1 Tbsp dried parsley
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp ground black pepper

2. Taco Seasoning Mix

• 3 Tbsp chili powder
• 4 tsp cumin
• 1 ½ tsp paprika
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• ¼ tsp ground black pepper

3. Italian Seasoning Mix

• ½ Tbsp dried basil
• ½ Tbsp dried rosemary
• ½ Tbsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp marjoram
• 2 tsp dried thyme

4. All Purpose Seasoning Mix

• 2 Tbsp garlic powder
• 1 Tbsp onion powder
• 1 Tbsp smoked paprika
• 1 Tbsp dried parsley
• ½ tsp sea salt
• ½ tsp ground black pepper

5. Pork and Beef Seasoning Mix

• 1 Tbsp garlic powder
• 1 Tbsp onion powder
• 1 Tbsp ground mustard
• 1 Tbsp paprika
• ½ Tbsp red pepper flakes
• 2 tsp dried minced onion
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• ¼ tsp ground black pepper

6. Poultry Seasoning Mix

• 2 Tbsp dried thyme
• 4 tsp ground sage
• 1 tsp marjoram
• 2 tsp dried rosemary
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 1 tsp ground black pepper
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg

Tools I Recommend

Here are a few things that make homemade spice blends so much easier!

• Empty Spice Jar Set – Keep all your spices in matching glass jars with this matching jar set. These are the same jars I used in the photos.
• Mini Mason Jars – An easy way to store a couple spice blends and reuse the jars for other purposes when you run out.
• Label Maker – I love my DYMO label maker and use it for almost everything, including labeling my spices.
• Steel Spice Funnel – Avoid spilling and use one of these to add your spice mix to the jar.

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