Spice Mix Recipes

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These spice mix recipes take about a minute to put together, especially if you have ground spices on hand. Spices are expensive. Paying for spice blends is unnecessary when you can make your own, usually, with the spices you have on hand. It saves you money, you can make them in the amount you need, and you don't end up with a laundry list of spices in your cupboard.

If you are only going to use pumpkin pie spice once or twice a year around the holidays make a couple of tablespoons of it rather than buying a 2 ounce jar of the stuff and letting it sit for a year. Not only is it more economical, but spices, particularly ground spices, lose their flavor after a couple years. Additionally, that's one less jar sitting in your spice rack.

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Common Spice Mix Recipes

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• Yield: varied
• Total Time: varied, but less than 5 minutes.
  

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Pumpkin Pie Spice

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Ingredients

• 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  2 teaspoons ground ginger
  1 teaspoon ground cloves
  3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Method

• Combine all ingredients, mix well, and store in an airtight container.

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Cajun Spice

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This spice blend makes a great blackening spice.

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Ingredients

• 2 tbsp cayenne
  2 tbsp paprika
  1 tbsp white pepper
  1 tbsp black pepper
  4 tbsp chili powder
  1 tbsp garlic powder

Method

• Combine all ingredients, mix well, and store in an airtight container.

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Chinese Five Spice

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Ingredients

• Szechuan peppercorns
  fennel seeds
  star anise
  cinnamon
  cloves

Method

1. All ingredients in equal measure. For example, one teaspoon of each spice or 15 grams of each spice. If you weigh the spices you can weigh them out and then grind them together. If you measure the spices you will need to grind them first and then measure the amounts.
2. Combine all ingredients, mix well, and store in an airtight container.
   

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The Colonel's Spice Mix

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Ingredients

• 100 grams black peppercorns
  80 grams white peppercorns
  45 grams paprika
  40 grams onion powder
  25 grams caraway seeds
  15 grams nutmeg
  7 gram sage
  5 gram allspice
  5 gram thyme
  3 gram cayenne pepper
  1 gram bay leaf - see note

Method

• Combine all ingredients, mix well, and store in an airtight container.
  

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Notes

I own a fairly nice digital scale, but it only weighs down to 2 grams with any accuracy. What I do is, weigh out 2 grams of whatever I need and then cut it in half.

"The Colonel's Spice Mix" recipe was developed by the Modernist Cuisine group.

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