Homemade Poultry Seasoning Recipe
Poultry Seasoning is a savory blend of spices that adds herbaceous depth of flavor to any recipe, including soups and vegetarian dishes. You can make this seasoning blend at home with a few dried herbs.
This classic seasoning blend adds flavor to chicken or turkey recipes and stuffing. Add a pinch to your next pot of chicken soup or pot pie recipe.
What is poultry seasoning?
This classic seasoning blend typically contains sage, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, nutmeg, and black pepper. This seasoning blend is usually finely ground so that it can be easily added to soups and stuffings.
What You’ll Need
Optional Ingredients
You can add a little onion and garlic powder to this recipe. They both add a little flavor punch that you won’t be mad about.
How To Make Homemade Poultry Seasoning
When you buy poultry seasoning in the store, it is usually finely ground. You can use a spice grinder to process this spice blend to a fine powder or feel free to keep it unground. The blend is delicious either way.
Finely ground seasoning is best when making soups and stuffings. However, the unground blend is just as tasty.
- Measure all of the ingredients and mix.
- Optional: Add onion and garlic powder.
- Pulverize in a spice grinder OR Not.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
FAQs
This seasoning blend is used to season chicken and turkey. It’s commonly used in chicken soup, turkey soup, and chicken pot pie. You may also see it listed as an ingredient in most stuffing recipes.
Unconventionally you can use this savory seasoning blend on roasted potatoes and other roasted vegetables.
For seasoning a whole turkey, you will use 2 to 3 tablespoons of poultry seasoning. You can blend the spices with salt and pepper and sprinkle it liberally over the turkey and inside of the turkey before cooking.
The flavor is earthy and astringent. This seasoning blend has a strong flavor that is ideal for roasting poultry. The flavor is reminiscent of Thanksgiving dishes and warm, comforting chicken soup.
Recipes To Try
Savory Fall recipes that use this poultry seasoning recipe.
- Turkey Soup – The recipe can also be used with chicken to make chicken soup.
- Turkey Pot Pie – Another recipe that can be made with chicken or turkey.
- Thanksgiving Stuffing
- Turkey Gravy
- Thanksgiving Turkey
- Oven Roasted Turkey Breast
More Seasoning Blend Recipes
Check out the full collection of seasoning blend recipes, including; BBQ Rub, Mediterranean Seasoning Blend, Pumpkin Spice, and Spicy Buffalo Chicken Blend.
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Poultry Seasoning Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 teaspoons ground sage
- 3 teaspoons ground thyme
- 2 teaspoon ground marjoram
- 2 teaspoon ground rosemary
- 1 teaspoon parsley flakes
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Optional Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Measure all of the ingredients and mix them together in a bowl.4 teaspoons ground sage, 3 teaspoons ground thyme, 2 teaspoon ground marjoram, 2 teaspoon ground rosemary, 1 teaspoon parsley flakes, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Optional: Add in onion and garlic powder.1 teaspoon onion powder, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Finely ground the blend with a spice grinder OR leave the blend unground.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Laura’s Tips + Notes
- This spice blend can be ground finely in a spice grinder. This is the traditional format of poultry seasoning.
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