Creole Seasoning Recipe [DIY] - Masala Herb (2024)

Creole Seasoning is a super useful blend of spices and herbs which is used in creole cuisine across the South of the US and the Caribbeans.

This Creole-style seasoning is a quick fix blend which is put together in less than 3 minutes.

You will need common pantry ingredients to follow my 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 asthe New Orleans in Louisiana, the Caribbeans, and South America, such as Guyana, French Guyana Brazil.

This colorfulcuisine is a mixture of cultures and reflects the history of the people in this regions.

Shaped by the Frenchcolonial past, slave trade, natives and Indian merchants.

Creole cuisine is always mentionedtogether with Cajuncuisine, 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.

🌶️ Creole Seasoning Ingredients

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 ingredientsinto their creole seasoning.

This is something that we can see in India with Masalas (spice blends) as each home has their own way of preparing garam masala for example.

Yet, Creole always includes certain base ingredients or ingredients that make up the creoleflavor profile.

This Creole seasoning is a New Orleans city style blend of spices and herbs.

Creole seasoning includes the following spices and herb:

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

🔪 How to make Creole Seasoning from scratch?

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

Quick small batch creole seasoning:

It's a 2 minutes job of just blending the dried spices and herbs in powdered form together.

This is the quickest and still "freshest" way to prepare theseasoning from scratch.

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 in an airtight jar, in a dry and dark environment.

Best Creole seasoning:

As explained in the cajun seasoning, creole spice and herb seasoning can be made with superioringredients, 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.

1. Mortar and Pestleif you plan on making the DIY seasoning recipe with whole spices
2. Glass Spice jar set tostore your spices safely. Essential in a humid climate to store properly so that the spice blend doesn’t turn bad.
3. If you are like me, a lover of spice and herb blends, then you will need a functionalexpandable bamboo spice rack.

💡 Use the Creole Seasoning in:

• Pasta Sauce - Just as in the Cajun Pasta Recipe

Do you like homemade seasonings? See some more DIY spice and herb blends to make at home!🌶

• Jerk Seasoning
• Spaghetti Seasoning
• Mexican Seasoning

Dear Reader, how are you planning to use the Creole Seasoning?

📖 Recipe