This Substitute for Poultry Seasoning is identical to poultry seasoning at the store. This recipe is a life saver for when you can’t find poultry seasoning in your cupboard or you run out of poultry seasoning!
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Why this Poultry Seasoning Recipe is a Keeper
I love this recipe for the best substitute for poultry seasoning blend because it’s so fresh, customizable and ready in the matter of minutes.
- 5 Minutes: The best poultry seasoning is so quick and easy to make.
- Easy Ingredients: All of these ingredients to make home made poultry seasoning can be found in your pantry.
- Adaptable: Can make it how you want it, to fit your families’ tastes. This along with my All Purpose Seasoning is one of the most popular blends.
What Can I Use this Best Substitute for Poultry Seasoning For?
A tablespoon of poultry seasoning can be used to flavor chicken and turkey recipes, soups, casseroles, salads or in anything you want to have that delicious chicken flavor.
Ingredient Notes for Homemade Poultry Seasoning
You will need just a few simple ingredients to make this recipe. If you don’t happen to have some of these ingredients, they’re all easy to find at the store.
- Ground Sage: Two teaspoons of the sage. The sage provides that classic flavor profile to the poultry seasoning.
- Rosemary: Grow and grind your own rosemary for the freshest taste!
- Black Pepper: Grind whole black peppercorns if you like.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
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Prep Ahead Suggestions for this Herbs and Spices Blend
Prepping ahead of time can help to save time, energy and counter space when it comes to making a meal.
- Make for Holidays: This blend is perfect for holidays. Make a fresh batch for the season.
Special Equipment Needed for Chicken Seasoning
Sometimes you need a couple pieces of equipment to make a recipe just right. In this case, all you need is a food processor and a grinder!
- Food Processor: A food processor is going to help you blend all the ingredients included in poultry seasoning.
- Grinder: A grinder will be beneficial if you want to freshly grind any of the spices.
Seasoning Mix Pro Tip
Roast the spices. Roasting the spices in a dry skillet before grinding them can enhance their flavor and aroma. This is especially effective for spices like sage and thyme.
How to Make Poultry Seasoning Substitute
This recipe comes together in just 1 super simple step. It’s so easy to make your own poultry seasoning, you’ll never buy it from the store again!
These are the basic steps for making Substitute for Poultry Seasoning. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Combine Ingredients
Combine ground sage, thyme, marjoram, rosemary, nutmeg and black pepper into a spice grinder or food processor. Process until finely ground.
How to Store Substitute for Poultry Seasoning
- Storing: Store in an airtight container. You can extend it’s life slightly if you store in the fridge.
Variations and Substitutions for this Dried Herbs and Spices Blend
This homemade poultry seasoning recipe is super easy to customize. Easily substitute or replace poultry seasoning ingredients to make it your own.
- Often Used: Use this in any recipe that calls for poultry seasoning, like chicken or other poultry recipes.
- Other Seasonings and Spices: The flavors of poultry seasoning are adjustable and replaceable. Try adding oregano, Italian seasoning or ground nutmeg to your homemade seasoning.
- Cooking Variation: Not only good to season chicken and turkey but also great for stuffing recipes too.
Recipe FAQs and Reader Interactions
Add poultry seasoning to your Thanksgiving turkey, goose, duck, pork, veal, and many game birds. It can also be used to enhance the flavors in stuffing, dressings, casseroles, meatloaf, as a dry rub on chicken and in sauces.
Sure! It will help extend it’s shelf life.
Absolutely! Unless you like boring, flavorless chicken, I’d recommend using at least 1 tablespoon.
You also might be wondering, what is poultry seasoning? Poultry seasoning is a blend of spices used to season chicken. Some of the ingredients in poultry seasoning include thyme and sage.
Expert Tips to Make Your Own Poultry Seasoning Recipe
- Add Citrus: Add some lemon peel, orange zest or any of your favorite citruses.
- Parsley: It always brightens up your dishes. Also make it savory by adding garlic powder or onion powder or herbs de provence, if you like.
- Alternate Ingredient: Of course, sea salt, table salt or kosher salt and pepper can enhance this mixture.
- Flavor to Poultry: Punch up your chicken or turkey, or other poultry dishes with this delicious blend.
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Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons Ground sage
- 1½ teaspoons Thyme
- 1 teaspoon Marjoram
- ¾ teaspoon Rosemary
- ½ teaspoon Nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper, freshly ground
Instructions
- Combine all seasonings into a spice grinder or food processor.
- Process until finely ground.
- Store in an air tight container.
Christina’s Notes
- Add Citrus: Add some lemon peel, orange zest or any of your favorite citruses.
- Parsley: It always brightens up your dishes. Also make it savory by adding garlic powder or onion powder or herbs de provence, if you like.
- Alternate Ingredient: Of course, sea salt, table salt or kosher salt and pepper can enhance this mixture.
- Flavor to Poultry: Punch up your chicken or turkey, or other poultry dishes with this delicious blend.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, scroll up on the page.
I dry as many of the herbs as I can grow. They are stronger in fragrance and in flavor. FYI: If using items that you have dried it may vary the ratio a bit. Just make sure that they are not too old and have lost all their strength.
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Awesome recipe,
Thank you Christina
Thanks for the info!
Looks like a good staple to have on hand!
This tasted so amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing this super easy to make recipe! Fam really loves it! Will surely have this again! Highly recommended!
Should the ingredients used be fresh?
These are all dried herbs.
Do you recommend finding all of the ingredients for this seasoning in the spice isle or should they be fresh from the produce section?
They are dried herbs from the spice aisle.
Just found your recipes. I am going to try them this Thanksgiving. I finally get an oven. Been almost a year. Can’t wait. Let y’all know how it comes out. Thank you.
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