Creole Seasoning Recipe

What is Creole Seasoning?

Creole seasoning is a blend of herbs and spices commonly used in Creole cookery. Creole Cuisine belongs to a few places in this world, such as the New Orleans in Louisiana, the Caribbeans, and South America, such as Guyana, French Guyana Brazil.

This colorful cuisine is a mixture of cultures and reflects the history of the people in this region. Shaped by the French colonial past, slave trade, natives, and Indian merchants.

Creole cuisine is always mentioned together with Cajun cuisine, as the ingredients and style overlap in some ways in the south of the US. In those US states, Cajun seasoning is seen as a country-style seasoning; Creole seasoning, on the other hand, stuck with the city of New Orleans.

Ingredient Notes

Due to the fact that Creole cuisine is common beyond New Orleans, the Creole seasoning is prepared differently in the various Creole cultures. Besides, each home tends to have their way of making and incorporating ingredients into their Creole seasoning.

Yet, Creole always includes certain base ingredients or ingredients that make up the Creole flavor profile. This Creole seasoning is a New Orleans city style blend of spices and herbs.

• Red Chili/Cayenne Chili Pepper
• Paprika - smoked if possible or sweet
• Black Pepper
• Onion Powder
• Thyme
• Celery leaf
• Oregano
• Basil

Process Overview

You can make your Creole seasoning easily; in fact, this recipe is a small-batch Creole blend that you can make while preparing a Creole dish such as jambalaya.

Option 1 — Quick small-batch Creole seasoning

It's a 2-minute job of just blending the dried spices and herbs in powdered form together. This is the quickest and still the “freshest” way to prepare the seasoning from scratch.

Option 2 — Big batch Creole seasoning

You could make a bigger batch; however, I usually try to avoid doing that except if I use the spice blend very frequently in my cooking. Seasonings, etc., tend to get stale and turn bad without you realizing it when they sit around somewhere in the back of your cupboard.

If you still want to create a big batch of Creole seasoning, then just multiply the number of ingredients by 5 and store it in an airtight jar in a dry and dark environment.

Option 3 — Best Creole seasoning

As explained in the Cajun seasoning, Creole spice and herb seasoning can be made with superior ingredients, techniques, and a handful of time.

To achieve the best quality of Creole seasoning, please follow my procedure and tips which I mentioned over at the homemade cajun seasoning recipe.

Tools

• Mortar and Pestle if you intend to make the DIY seasoning recipe with whole spices
• Glass Spice jar set to store your spices safely. Essential in a humid climate to store properly so that the spice blend doesn’t turn bad.
• If you are like me, a lover of spice and herb blends, then you will need a functional, expandable bamboo spice rack.