All-Purpose Chicken Seasoning Recipe
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This delicious, simple-to-prepare, all-purpose chicken seasoning recipe is a perfect blend of savory spices and herbs for all your chicken recipes. You will love the flavors in this rub and just how well it goes with any dish.
Using dry spices is a fantastic way to take the taste of your food to the next level. If you’ve never made homemade seasonings and rubs before, it is way easier than you think. Try my Cajun Seasoning or Blackened Seasoning Recipe.
Chicken Seasoning
Chicken seasoning is a simple combination of herbs, spices, salt, and pepper that are combined and used to season the chicken. There are many variations to making a seasoning blend, and will depend on what you like and what’s available. This is more of an all-purpose blend that is great to use for grilled, pan-seared, or oven-roasted chicken dishes.
This chicken seasoning is very easy-to-make and will last in a cool dry place as long as your dry spices do. I’ve seasoned this recipe to perfection with salt and pepper, so no more is needed when seasoning your chicken. If you’re looking for more smoky flavors, then try my BBQ Rub.
Ingredients and Substitutions
- Salt – I always use sea salt in my cooking and baking.
- Pepper – freshly ground or pre-ground black pepper
- Cumin – This will add some lovely earthy tones to this recipe.
- Onion – I prefer to use granules as opposed to powder.
- Garlic – Granules work better than powder.
- Paprika – Some smoked paprika will add smoky flavors to the rub.
- Mustard – Ground mustard adds great flavors to it.
- Rosemary – Some dry rosemary will help add some citrus and lavender flavors.
- Thyme – This will add some earthy-minty-like flavors to the chicken seasoning.
How to Make a Chicken Seasoning Rub
Add all the dry spices to a medium-sized bowl.
Using a fork, spoon, or whisk, mix everything until combined. Use, or cover and store.
Make-Ahead and Storage
Make-Ahead: You can make this homemade all-purpose chicken seasoning several days or weeks before you’re ready to use it.
How to Store: Put in an airtight container and store in a cool dark place for up to 6 months.
Chef Notes + Tips
- You can add other dry spices: red pepper flakes, oregano, basil, or celery seed.
- Try storing this in a glass jar with an air-tight lid.
- This blend would also go well on pork, beef, seafood, or vegetables.
More Seasoning Recipes
All-Purpose Chicken Seasoning Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons coarse salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground pepper
- 1 ½ tablespoons garlic granules
- 1 ½ tablespoons onion granules
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 2 tablespoons dry parsley
- 2 teaspoons dry rosemary
- 2 teaspoons dry thyme
Instructions
- Add all the dry spices to a medium-sized bowl.
- Using a fork, spoon, or whisk, mix everything until combined. Use, or cover and store.
This is delicious. I keep a batch handy for whole chickens and wings.
Thank you for giving it a try!
I made this as written, tastes excellent but by using rosemary, the kids did not like the “sticks”. The remaining mixture went into my spice grinder: no complaints about the sticks.
Also, the next batch, I’m going to make it with dried sage. Thanks for the recipe.
My pleasure.
This is crazy salty. What did I do wrong? Made it on the beer can chicken.
Sorry to hear it was too salty for your taste. This seasoning blend has roughly 1 part salt to 3 parts herbs and spices, which is a pretty standard ratio for a seasoning blend. The beer can chicken recipe only uses 1/3 cup of the seasoning, while the full recipe makes close to 1 cup total, so not all of it is used at once. You can definitely reduce the salt a bit next time to better suit your preference.
I also double/triple it and keep it stored in a bottle to use whenever I need it. I love the spices, especially the cumin.
Fantastic!
Amazing! This is a new family favorite seasoning! I triple the recipe and keep it in a jar. We love it! Thank you!
Fantastic! Thank you!
What a great chicken seasoning mix! My husband put it together and in our pantry the first day we saw the recipe. We’ve already used it a couple of times and love the combination of flavors. I love to make soup and look forward to using it in my chicken soups. Folks let’s be honest who wants to buy seasoning mixes in the grocery stores or big box stores that have been sitting for who knows how long? It’s so easy to whip this together in small batches with you herbs you have on hand right in your own pantry. Thanks Billy!
thanks for giving it a shot!!
I made this yesterday! My husband now says I must use this spice blend when I make grilled chicken! It is do good and easy. I did replace rosemary with sage as I didn’t have rosemary.
Definitely going on ny rotation menu!
excellent!
Your Recipes are so good my family has enjoyed many so thank you
my pleasure