This Poultry Seasoning recipe is the perfect blend of spices to add to any chicken or turkey dish or stuffing!
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Quick Tips for Making Poultry Seasoning
Poultry seasoning is a blend of spices—most of which you’ll have on hand already.
- I use ground rosemary in this recipe. You can make ground rosemary with dried rosemary in a spice grinder or magic bullet or using a mortar and pestle.
- This poultry seasoning recipe should be a relatively fine powder.
- Sprinkle it into chicken casseroles, dumplings, or soups. I also use it to season a roast turkey (or chicken): rub the outside of the bird with olive oil and then season with poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. It makes the most crispy, savory skin and tastes wonderful!
Storage
Keep poultry seasoning in a cupboard for up to 6 months in an airtight container or spice jar. It’s the perfect substitute for pricey bottles of poultry seasoning, and while it makes 3 tablespoons, this recipe can easily be doubled or tripled.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 teaspoons ground sage
- 3 teaspoons ground thyme
- 2 teaspoons ground rosemary
- 1 teaspoon ground marjoram
- 1 teaspoon white pepper or very finely ground black pepper
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a tightly sealed container.
- Store for up to 6 months.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Pantry, Seasonings, Spices
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Being a health nut and RN, I no longer feed my family gluten, dairy eggs soy or corn , but love your recipes as I can alter them using cassava flour, or flax eggs, and potato flakes for breading….thank you for sharing….making the poultry seasoning tonight with the herbs I have grown and ground…..love it!
I forgot to add, I loved your homemade poultry seasoning Holly (used it for Canadian Thanksgiving in October) but do admit I left out the nutmeg as I didn’t have any on hand.
Holly, I’ve loved every one of your recipes! Thank you for being so generous in sharing them with us.
So are you using store bought spices to combine & make your poultry seasoning or are you using fresh herbs & grounding them down? I grow almost all of my own herbs/spices so I have them right in my kitchen fresh year around. Its great.
I use dried ground spices. Store bout or homegrown will work in this recipe.
Could you just substitute black pepper for the white pepper? Does the white pepper add something the black pepper doesn’t besides the color? White pepper is pretty pricey around here, and I rarely see recipes I want to try that use it.
Hi Vicki, white pepper has a little more heat but it should be fine to substitute it for black pepper if that’s all you have.
I wanted to try a vegan “chicken” soup, but the recipe required poultry seasoning. I didn’t have any. This was perfect!
I was out of poultry seasoning.
Stores in area aren’t selling it anymore.
I had to improvise and use herbed de province, sage , white pepper and fresh grated nutmeg.
Wow. Awsome!
I cannot wait to get seasonings to be more precise.
Thank you.
Mary Milchak
So happy this seasoning worked out for you Mary!
Hi, I was wondering if there is a substitute ingredient for nutmeg? Where I live, I can’t get that particular spice. Thanks
You could try substituting mace, allspice or cinnamon for the nutmeg. If you don’t have any of those available, simply omit it. Enjoy Cathy!
I love this homemade spice mix…I’ve never tried poultry seasoning but I love the mix of herbs here.
I love making my own spice mix too! Makes things so much easier and customized. Nothing beats good poultry seasonings. I love the combinations – the sage sounds just right.
I love using poultry seasoning on the Thanksgiving turkey as well. It’s also great to add to stuffing.
This is such a great idea! I never buy poultry seasoning so when a recipe calls for it I just kinda throw in whatever. Now, I know what to use!
I need to print this right now and put it in my recipe binder. I never seem to have poultry seasoning when I need it! But I always have all of these spices. Thanks!
I love to make my own spice mixes at home so I can control the quality of the spices. You never know howl long the mixes have been sitting on a market shelf! I love this as I don’t have a poultry seasoning at home at the moment. This is definitely one I need to make!
Such a great post right before the holidays! Poultry seasoning is a must for Thanksgiving stuffing, but I never knew how to make it. Yum!
This is a great idea, it’s perfect to have on hand!
ooh! I don’t have a recipe for poultry seasoning, thank you – this is great!!
I grew up in Canada where poultry seasoning was always used for a roast chicken stuffing – here in the UK though I can’t get it and I miss it! I am so making this soon! In fact, I’m creating a full roast chicken dinner for a brand this week so I’ll use this recipe to season my stuffing, thank you! :D
I love the idea of making it yourself so you know exactly what’s in it.
I grew sage this year in my garden how do I make it ground sage okay I just use the leaves and crunch them up.
Hang bundles of sage to dry in an out-of-the-way spot, away from direct sunlight. Or you can use a dehydrator on the lowest setting (it will be ready in about a day), or just dry in the oven on the lowest possible setting until evenly crisp. Then crumble! I hope this helps!
we made cookies with cakemix they were wonderful grandkids and friends ate them all up so fast. Love the recipes on your site haven’t had a failure or thumb down since I started using them .