Homemade Seasoning Mix Recipes » LeelaLicious (2024)

These homemade Seasoning Mix recipes can save you a TON of money. Especially if you have a fairly well stocked spice cabinet. You get to avoid all the fillers and preservative often found in store-bought spice blends. DIY seasoning blends also make great homemade gifts.

Why you should make homemade spice blends

Using spices and seasoning blends is imperative to making delicious and flavorful food. Having a mix of spices is definitely a lot more convenient than having to pull out all your individual spice jars from the cabinet.

Store-bought seasoning mixes are the ultimate convenience, but unfortunately they are either

1. full of preservatives and fillers, or
2. ridiculously overpriced

Seasoning packets are usually the worst when it comes to fillers and preservatives that make them unsuitable for people with gluten and other food intolerances. Not to mention, those individual packets also create a lot of unnecessary plastic waste.

When it comes to jars of spice mixes, they may not contain fillers, but they can be very overpriced. I once did the comparison with a tiny jar of pumpkin spice mix.

From the ingredient label I could see that it consisted of mainly cinnamon. But this small container was more than double the price of a regular sized jar of ground cinnamon.

So don't waste your money on premade spice blends, if you already have a well-stocked pantry of individual spices. However, if you are traveling and using an AirBnb kitchen, or you don't usually cook with a lot of spices, then a store-bought mix might actually turn out more economical for you.

Because buying a lot of spice jars can get expensive, and is a waste if you won't use them before they will turn stale and lose their flavor.

Savory Seasoning Mix Recipes

Here are my best and favorite spice mix recipes. Click on the images or titles to open the individual recipe pages.

Homemade Chili Seasoning Mix

Other than the obvious chili recipe, it's also great for seasoning roasted veggies or as a stand-in for other Mexican spice blends.

Homemade Cajun Spice Mix

I love to use Cajun seasoning in chicken recipes. Especially my one-pot and chicken pasta recipes.

Taco Seasoning Mix Recipe

This gluten-free taco seasoning can be used in place of the wasteful taco seasoning pouches to seasoning your ground meat for taco night. Here you won't get any fillers, just straight up flavor!

Everything Bagel Seasoning

Everything bagel seasoning is a lovely savoury blend of sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion flakes, and dried garlic, most commonly enjoyed on bagels. However, with this homemade everything bagel seasoning recipe, you will be able to discover a multitude of other ways to have it.

Homemade Pickling Spice

Use thishomemade pickling spice recipefor pickling cucumbers or any of your pickled or fermented vegetables. It gives the pickle brine a delicious and complex flavor. Made with mustard seeds, peppercorns, coriander, allspice and more.

Indian Spice Blends

I should point out that these Indian spice mix recipes aren't 100% authentic. These are easier substitutes for when you don't want to buy a range of whole spices, toast them, and grind them up at home.

It is undeniable that those methods produce superiors flavors. But in a pinch mixing up ground spices for a substitute is definitely much better than not being able to enjoy Indian food at all.

Chai Spice Mix

I love this chai spice mix for iced Chai lattes in summer time. Of course you can also use it in hot Chai lattes or even in baking recipes to create Chai-flavored baked treats - like pancakes, or muffins etc.

Easy Garam Masala Substitute

Use Garam Masala to give a finishing touch to your curry dishes.

Tandoori Masala

Tandoori seasoning is great on chicken and salmon. I also like to use it to make spicy crunchy chickpeas for snacking.

Sweet Baking Spice Mixes

Pumpkin Spice Mix

I use pumpkin pie spice in everything from actual pumpkin pie to pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin brownies, and my pumpkin breakfast cookies.

Apple Pie Spice

This apple pie spice mix is great for apple pies, and also apple sauce and any apple dessert really.

Gingerbread Spice Mix

This is my favorite baking spice of all time. I grew up with my mom making gingerbread cookies every Christmas. This gingerbread spice flavor is quintessential comfort and the taste of home for me.

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