Baked Chicken Seasoning Recipe

At first view the recipe for our baked chicken seasoning or call it roast chicken rub, may look like a walk through the spice rack, but if closely looked, there are quite a lot of similarities with selfmade curry powder.

Baked or roast chicken is a culinary highlight, if properly seasoned, as chicken don`t have much taste of its own. Whilst we started to create our very own chicken spice blend, we oriented ourselves by off-the-shelf seasonings, especially by a German blend called Kikeriki, which is impossible to get in our homecountry Thailand. We mostly use fresh herbs and spices for our recipes, in that case, as we wanted to store our seasoning as well, we had to use dried herbs and spices without exception. To use baked chicken seasoning just mix the spice blend with olive oil or melted butter and rub the chicken or chicken pieces from inside and outside,
after that let the meat infuse for a few hours.

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Recipe: Baked Chicken Seasoning
Ingredients:
2-3 teaspoons coarse sea salt
3 teaspoons sweet paprika powder (paprika noble-sweet)
1 teaspoon black pepper, whole
1/2 teaspoon turmeric (Indian saffron)
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
1/2 teaspoon dried majoram
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1/2 teaspoon dill seeds
1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
1/2 teaspoon celery seeds
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon caraway
1/2-1 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2-3 all spice (pimento), whole
1/2-1 cm cinnamon, whole
1/2 teaspoon coriander seed powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder

Preperation:
Combine all ingredients in a mortar and pound them to a fine powder. Fill it in a glass with a screw-cap and shake well. Let the spice blend infuse best overnight. As all dried herbs and spices, roast chicken rub should be stored at a dark and cool location as well and will keep for about a year.