Mexican Seasoning Recipe

Mexican Seasoning (Taco seasoning blend) is prepared with a few smooth ground spices, which most probably you will have in your kitchen.

It takes less than 5 minutes to just mix together the ground spices for this Mexican spice mix recipe and you can store it easily for another hot spiced day.

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• 📕 What is this Mexican Seasoning?
• 🌶 Ingredients
• 🥣 Uses
• 💭 FAQs
• 👁️ More Homemade Spice Seasonings
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📕 What is this Mexican Seasoning?

Mexican food seasoning is a spice blend that is usually used for popular Mexican dishes.

Basically, it's a hot, easy homemade Taco seasoning spice blend.

The homemade spice mix can be used for other global Mexican food favorites with meat such as chicken and ground meat to stuff tacos.

Often, Mexican-style spice blends are simply promoted and sold as seasonings, which include spices associated with Mexican food.

This homemade spice mix recipe is more like a global "modern" spice blend than a traditional Mexican spice blend because even in Mexico they differentiate between various spice mixtures.

In Mexico, they use different spice blends in their regional cuisine.

Besides that, local Mexican chili pepper powder varieties are used in various seasoning mixes.

🌶 Ingredients

This universal multipurpose 5 min Mexican seasoning recipe consists of a few aromatic ground spices and more:

• Chili Pepper Powder - cayenne or choose a Mexican chili pepper variety.
• Paprika Powder - sweet or smoked or a blend of the two
• Onion Powder
• Garlic Powder
• Ground Cumin
• Ground Coriander
• Oregano dried - regular Italian oregano or, even better, Mexican oregano.
• Black Pepper Powder

This spice combination makes food taste Mexican.

Also, the Mexican spice blend recipe is low in sodium because there is no salt in it.

You can reduce the spicy heat and create a mild Mexican seasoning with the same ingredients by picking a different chili variety.

I like a semi-hot chili variety like the chipotle chili, or you can use something like a common cayenne or, Ancho, the mildest Mexican chili pepper,

You can experiment with the chili pepper heat by using different chili pepper powder, or by adding a little more of the red chili powder to the Mexican spice blend.

Tip: The Mexican spice blend turns out even better if you use your own homegrown chilies, which you dry and turn into a powder. You can use a mortar and pestle to do that in minutes.

Also, try to use Central American chili peppers such as habanero, de arbol or serrano chili peppers.

Or the hottest of all chilies, the ghost pepper!

🥣 Uses

You can use this universal multipurpose Mexican style spice blend in various dishes and recipes, such as a

• chicken seasoning for tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, fajitas
• rice spice blend → Spanish rice
• seasoning for guacamole
• seasoning for salsas I.e. Peach Salsa, Mango Salsa.
• in salads I.e. Mexican Black Bean and Corn Salad
• fruit seasoning
• seasoning mixed sheet-pan vegetables to roast
• steak or dry rub to flavor your ground beef
• or use as a general taco meat flavor enhancer

I personally like to just sprinkle some on potatoes wedges or slices before I bake them crispy in olive oil.

Another idea is to season mayo-based creamy dips and sauces with Mexican spices.

The other day I prepared a mixture of ground meat. I seasoned it with the spice blend before shaping the ground meat mixture into burger patties and cooking them.

Dear Reader, how are you planning to use the spice blend in your cooking?

Please share with us your experience in a comment further below.

💭 FAQs

👁️ More Homemade Spice Seasonings

• Jerk Seasoning
• Spaghetti Seasoning
• Sazon Seasoning

📖 Recipe