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Spice rub for everything from Vegetables to meat and seafood

Elevate the taste profile of your grilled or roast vegetables ( or seafood or meat) with this delicious homemade spice rub.

Now I have tried this spice mix on broccoli, kale, and roast potatoes and it always works wonders. But we have loved it most with fish. Grilled, BBQ’ed, fried, steamed, or baked – we love eating fish in our house and I have created my own recipe for an Indian spice rub. I used this on haddock fillets on the BBQ this Sunday and the result was very satisfying. Even with frozen fish fillets straight out of the freezer onto the hot grill, the spice mix hit all the right notes.

It was incredibly easy to create this spice rub at home using my Optimum G.21 Platinum blender, the panel has six pre-programmed functions which are a real no brainer and one of those functions is ‘Grind’. I try and use my Froothie blender as much as possible and not just for my morning smoothies, it has just made my life that much simpler!

Homemade Spice Rub

Manjiri Chitnis

Homemade spice rub – Versatilespice mix works perfectly well for vegetables like cauliflower, mushrooms,potatoes. Great with chicken chicken , lamb and seafood especially for fishsteaks and prawns

Print Recipe

Prep Time 2

Total Time 2

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Servings 2 people

Equipment

High-speed blender

Ingredients

1/4 tsp Peppercorns
2 Cloves
1 Dry Kashmiri Red Chilli
1 Badi Elaichi or black cardamom
3 Green cardamom – without the outer green pod
2 cloves Garlic peeled
Cinnamon stick – roughly the length of the tip of your thumb
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tsp Cumin/ jeera
1 tsp Amchoor powder / dried mango powder
1 tbsp Kasoori methi
1 Heaped tbsp fried onion
1 tbsp Coriander seeds lightly roasted on a pan
1 Whole round Red Chilli
1/2 tsp Himalayan pink salt
a tiny pinch of Asafoetida

Instructions

Add all ingredients into a grinder and blend till you get a grainy consistency
Do not grind to a very smooth paste because the texture this consistency will lend to the fish, will hit the right spot on your palate. A finer texture I think would work better for meat
Though this spice rub is suitable for freezing, since it contains garlic and fried onion, I would not advise keeping in the freezer for over 10-15 days
If you make a small batch and little remains, try adding into your curry for a lift in flavour
If you do not deal well with spicy red chilli flavours, then rule out the whole round red chilli completely and instead add a small pinch of paprika just for a hint of flavour

Keyword Spice mix

Homemade spice rub for grilling vegetables, meat, and seafood

These quantities yield enough spice mix for 2 medium-sized fillets with a little leftover. If you want to use it for 4 or 6 fillets simply double the quantities.