BBQ Seasoning Recipe

Spice up your life and give a lift to your health! This easy BBQ seasoning recipe brings the healing qualities of your spice cabinet to the center of your culinary experience.

You can use this BBQ seasoning recipe to dry-rub meats, potatoes, or vegetables before grilling them on the barbecue. You can also dry-rub meat before baking, and then make gravy with the pan drippings.

Herbal sprinkles like this can also be turned into a paste by adding just enough olive oil to make a paste. Herb pastes can be used for marinades and crusts for meats, vegetables, and fish.

Healing Gifts of BBQ Seasoning Spices

Kitchen herbs and spices are abundant in their healing gifts and nutritional benefits. Let’s take a look at the benefits of the spices in our BBQ seasoning recipe…

Coriander

Coriander has an anti-inflammatory effect and helps with all things digestive, helping to relieve intestinal cramps and spasms and regulate an overheated digestive system. Many diseases are rooted in digestive problems, and fortifying digestion is the number one way to reduce inflammatory complaints such leaky gut syndrome, allergies, and arthritis.

Plus, did you know coriander has a synergistic effect in spice blends? Its lemony taste synthesizes diverse flavors and you’ll find it in spice mixtures from all over the world.

Paprika

Paprika gives you the splendid flavor of a chile pepper without the heat. This spice permeates your food with a full-bodied flavor and is packed with beneficial nutrients. High-flavonoid spices like paprika are an important tonic to the heart, reducing the risk of heart disease, as well as calming the inflammatory histamine response that plagues people with seasonal allergies.

Look for the sweeter Hungarian paprika to use in your BBQ seasoning recipe.

Black Pepper

This common yet extraordinary spice is the emperor of digestive aids, bolstering the healing process in belly complaints including bloating, gas, constipation, indigestion, and nausea. Pepper helps with the digestion of rich foods and the standard American diet’s excess of poor-quality meat, denatured oil, sugar, unhealthful table salt, and all the pesticides, chemicals, food preservatives, and dyes. Think of it as a first aid remedy for the average American diet.

Cumin

Cumin is one of the most versatile spices, finding itself in food everywhere from Mexico to the Middle East and beyond. A little bit of cumin in spice blends like this BBQ seasoning adds a robust spike of flavor. Cumin contains nutritive vitamins and minerals, supports digestion, eases coughs, and helps with anxiety and insomnia.

Clove

Rich, warm, and aromatic clove provides a pleasant accent to dishes. Cloves open the sinuses, encourage mental clarity, resolve phlegm, and are also high antibacterial. Cloves have been used in healing acne, colds, coughs, indigestion, toothaches, and more.

Print Recipe

BBQ Seasoning

Author: Kami McBride

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp powdered coriander
• 1 tbsp powdered paprika
• 1 tbsp powdered black pepper
• 1 tsp powdered cumin
• 1/2 tsp powdered clove

Instructions

• Mix herbs together well in a bowl.
• Put the mixed herbs into a shaker or chosen dispenser for sprinkling on your food. Easy!
• If you keep your sprinkles in a shaker or jar with a tight-fitting lid, they can last for one year. If the shaker has open holes, they can last about six months.

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I would love to hear from you! Have you made this BBQ seasoning recipe or another herbal sprinkle? Please share how you like to use it in the comments below!