Greek Seasoning Blend

My Greek Seasoning Blend contains a variety of herbs common in Greek cuisine, like marjoram, dill, oregano, and fennel. It’s ready in less than 10 minutes and stores for up to a year under the proper conditions. It’s an easy way to add a blend of flavors to your proteins, side dishes, and salad dressings, and you probably have most of the ingredients in your spice cabinet right now.

What Is Greek Seasoning Blend?

Greek seasoning combines dried herbs and spices common to Mediterranean cuisine, such as oregano, dill weed, parsley flakes, and marjoram, and spices like garlic, onion, coriander, and nutmeg.

This seasoning blend makes flavoring your grilled or roasted meats, seafood, or poultry easy. Additionally, you can use this Greek seasoning blend to elevate your mashed potatoes, pasta dishes, or vegetable side dishes. 

What Are The Ingredients In Greek Seasoning Blend?

The ingredients in this Greek seasoning blend are kosher salt, oregano, granulated onion, dill weed, granulated garlic, parsley flakes, marjoram, thyme, crushed rosemary, coriander, black pepper, nutmeg, basil, lemon peel, fennel, and, finally, cinnamon.

The spices in the recipe are ground, and the herbs are dried, but not all of them. Consequently, I recommend using a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder for the next step.  

Why Do I Need To Grind The Salt and Fennel Seeds?

Start by adding the kosher salt and fennel to a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder and grind them to a semi-fine powder. Since fennel seeds and kosher salt are coarse as far as spice blends go, grinding them prevents us (or our diners) from getting a big piece of licorice-tasting fennel in our dishes. 

Add the remaining spices and herbs to a medium bowl. 

Can I Omit Any Of The Ingredients?

My Greek seasoning blend is an all-in-one seasoning mix. Which means you won’t have to add any other herbs and spices to your recipe if you use it. There are a lot of herbs and spices in it, though, so feel free to omit what you don’t have. The least important ingredients are the parsley flakes, coriander, basil, lemon peel, and cinnamon.  

Use a small whisk to combine the spice blend together in the bowl. 

How Can I Switch It Up?

Add crushed red pepper flakes, smoked paprika, hot paprika, dried orange peel, or sumac to add more spicy flavor to this Greek seasoning blend. Sumac is a powder of the red berry of the same name, which tastes like a lemony paprika.

Finally, use a funnel to pour the spice blend into a glass storage jar. 

What’s The Best Way To Store Spice Blends?

Seasoning blends should be kept in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. The best place to store homemade seasoning blends is in a spice cabinet or pantry, away from heat and moisture. Moisture causes the spices and herbs to swell up, releasing (and wasting) their fragrance and causing mold to grow in the jar. Heat also coaxes out the natural oils from the spices and herbs. After a few days or weeks of that heating and cooling, your seasoning blend tastes less potent and fresh.

Avoid storing Greek seasoning blend in the refrigerator or freezer. Because of the condensation from inside the fridge and freezer that gets trapped in the jar, storing it in the fridge or freezer causes the spice blend to sweat when you bring it to room temperature. 

Store your seasoning blend for up to 1 year. You can even get 18 months out of it if you make it with newly opened herbs and spices. 

How Do I Keep Spice Blends From Clumping?

Spice blends naturally clump together in storage. Add a food-safe silica gel pack to the jar with the seasoning blend to prevent clumping during storage.

If you don’t feel like buying silica packs, shake the crap out of the jar before measuring out the spice blend for the recipe you’re using it in. 

How Do I Use This Greek Seasoning Blend?

One tablespoon (5 grams) of Greek seasoning blend will season 1 pound (454 grams) of meat or other proteins. A teaspoon (1 gram) of this Greek seasoning blend is sufficient for adding flavor to vegetables, starches, or grains like rice, couscous, or farro. 

You can also use it in these recipes: 

Garlic Herb Lamb Chops

Antipasto Pasta Salad

Butternut Squash Stew

This Greek seasoning blend is a simple yet boldly flavored seasoning ready in less than 10 minutes. This economical recipe adds Mediterranean flavors to your proteins, veggies, starches, and sauces. Be sure to let me know what you think of this recipe in the comments, and don’t forget to pin it to your seasoning board as well. 

Greek Spice Blend

Marta Rivera at Sense & Edibility

5 from 5 votes

This Greek spice blend is a simple yet boldly flavored seasoning ready in less than 10 minutes. This economical recipe adds Mediterranean flavors to your proteins, veggies, starches, and sauces.

Makes 1 cup (100 grams) of spice blend.

Servings: 16 tablespoons (1 serving portion)

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Equipment

• mortar and pestle or coffee grinder
• pint glass jar (for storage)

Ingredients

  

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• 2 tablespoons (30 grams) kosher salt or less to taste
• 2 tablespoons (2 grams) dried oregano Greek preferably
• 1 1/2 tablespoons (15 grams) granulated garlic powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoons (12 grams) granulated onion powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoons (2 grams) dill weed
• 1 1/2 tablespoons (1 gram) parsley flakes
• 1 tablespoon (5 grams) crushed rosemary
• 1 tablespoon (3 grams) dried thyme leaves
• 1 tablespoon (2 grams) dried marjoram
• 1/2 tablespoon (3 grams) dried basil
• 2 teaspoons (3 grams) ground nutmeg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons (4 grams) dried lemon peel optional
• 1 1/2 teaspoons (3 grams) ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon (3 grams) black pepper
• 1 teaspoon (2 grams) dried fennel seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon optional

Instructions 

Grind Down the Kosher Salt and Fennel

• Add the kosher salt and fennel to a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder and grind them to a semi-fine powder.

Mix and Bottle the Greek Spice Blend

• To a separate medium bowl, add the oregano, garlic powder, onion powder, dill weed, parsley flakes, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, basil, nutmeg, lemon peel, coriander, black pepper, fennel leaves, and ground cinnamon. 

  Use a small whisk to combine the spice blend together in the bowl. 
• Using a funnel, pour the spice blend into a glass storage jar. 

  Store your spice blend for up to 1 year.

How To Use Greek Spice Blend

• Use 1 tablespoon (5 grams) of Greek spice blend to season 1 pound (454 grams) of meat or other proteins.

  Use 1 teaspoon (1 gram) of Greek spice blend to add flavor to vegetables, starches, or grains like rice, couscous, or farro. 

Notes

Swaps and Substitutions:

• You can omit the parsley flakes, coriander, basil, lemon peel, and/or cinnamon.  
• Add 1 teaspoon (1 gram) crushed red pepper flakes, smoked paprika, hot paprika, dried orange peel, or sumac to add more spicy flavor to this Greek spice blend.

Tips and Techniques:

• Since fennel seeds and kosher salt are coarse, grinding them makes them flow better in the spice blend. You can replace them with ground fennel and a finer grain of kosher salt reducing the salt to 1 1/2 tablespoons (25 grams).  
• Adding a food-safe silica gel pack to the jar with the spice blend prevents clumping during storage.
• If you don't have/want silica packs, shake the crap out of the jar before measuring out the spice blend for your recipe.
• Moisture causes the spices and herbs to swell up, releasing (and wasting) their fragrance and causing mold to grow in the jar.
• Heat releases the natural oils from the spices and herbs making it taste less potent and fresh.
• Avoid storing the spice blend in the fridge or freezer, which causes it to sweat when you bring it to room temperature. 

Storage Instructions:

• Keep the Greek spice blend in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid in a spice cabinet or pantry, away from heat and moisture. 
• Avoid storing this Greek spice blend in the refrigerator or freezer. 
• The spice blend may be good for 18 months if you make it with newly opened herbs and spices.

Nutrition

Calories: 33kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.2gSodium: 728mgPotassium: 160mgFiber: 3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 319IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 110mgIron: 3mg

Course Condiments, Spice Blend

Cuisine Greek, Mediterranean

Keyword herb blend, spice blend

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