A Cluckin’ Great Poultry Seasoning Recipe

This is an easy all-purpose spice mix for poultry, it is not made with poultry! Use it on chicken, turkey, pork (pigs can fly, can’t they?), or veal. I have used it in bread stuffings and meat loaf.

They sell it in bottles, but you can make it yourself easily, and modify the ingredients to your taste. Each bottler has its own proprietary mix, but sage is the main ingredient in all of them. Here’s my recipe.

Since there is no salt in this recipe, (click here to read why our rub recipes do not have salt), salting the meat first is a must. This process is called dry brining. Salt will penetrate deep into meat so you should get it on in advance, perhaps overnight. The rest of the spices and herbs cannot penetrate very deep, so the rub can go on anytime, even just before you start cooking. The general rule of thumb is 1/2 teaspoon Morton Coarse Kosher Salt per pound (453.6 grams) of meat (don’t include bone, and ribs are about half bone).

Poultry Seasoning Recipe

Author: Meathead

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This is an easy all-purpose spice mix for poultry, pork, or veal.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Course: Sauces and Condiments

Cuisine: American

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 3 tablespoons dried “rubbed” sage
• 1 tablespoon dried rosemary, whole leaves
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• 1 tablespoon dried marjoram
• 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon celery seeds
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves

Method

 

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1. If you can only get whole sage leaves, break them up into small bits or flakes in a mortar and pestle, spice grinder, food processor, or blender. Ditto for the rosemary. Mix everything together and store in a tightly sealed glass bottle.

Notes

About the salt. Remember, Morton’s coarse kosher salt is half the concentration of table salt so if you use table salt, use half as much. Click here to read more about salt and how it works.

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