Homemade vegetable seasonings are best for our evening snacks or snacks at any time. The blends can be used over popcorn or regular vegetables. It is up to you how you want to use your vegetable seasonings.
Some people always use seasonings on their vegetables. You can initially start sprinkling the herbs on your regular green beans. I hope you’ll love it and eventually use it on grilled vegetables as well. The seasonings usually contain celery salt in the mixture, bringing out the flavor of vegetables even more.
1. How do you make vegetable seasonings?
Making your vegetable seasonings at home saves a lot of money and you can have it in your way. If you are making it at home you’ll be having some great spice flavors which are rare to find in the ones we see in the stores.
The blends of different spices get mixed easily and quickly, so it is easy to use them in different recipes with the customization of spices. The premade seasoning packets tend to contain a heavy portion of salt which might be harmful to many people. If you want to avoid that, it is better to make the seasonings at home with less salt and spices of your choice. You also get to decide what needs to be avoided for good health.
1.1. What are the ingredients for vegetable seasoning?
To make a spice blend for vegetable seasoning, you will need the followings;
- Celery salt (4 tsp)
- Garlic salt (1-½ tsp)
- Dried parsley flakes (3 tsp)
- Onion powder (1 tsp)
- Dried oregano (½ tsp)
- Ground thyme (½ tsp)
- Black paper (½ tsp)
- Ground sage (¼ tsp)
- Turmeric (¼ tsp)
You have to mix all these ingredients and store them in a covered container or a spice jar.
1.2. How can you use this blend of vegetable seasoning?
This blend pairs too well with grilled vegetables. If you want a more enhanced flavor, you can chop some fresh zucchini, yellow squash, and unpeeled potatoes into the vegetables and sprinkle this spice blend. Drizzling some olive oil over the recipe also makes it taste yummy.
1.3. How to make grilled vegetables with vegetable seasoning?
Chop all your preferred vegetables like cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, and so on. Then drizzle some olive oil on the veggies. Now you have to sprinkle the spice blend over everything and mix them with a good stir. Keep the veggies for about 20 minutes to grill and stir them occasionally till the vegetables become soft and tender.
2. In a nutshell
Making your vegetable seasonings at home saves a lot of money and you can have it in your way. If you are making it at home you’ll be having some great spice flavors which are rare to find in the ones we see in the stores. The premade seasoning packets tend to contain a heavy portion of salt which might be harmful to many people. If you want to avoid that, it is better to make the seasonings at home with less salt and spices of your choice. You also get to decide what needs to be avoided for good health.
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