Made with easy elements this home made dry rub is nice, savory, and spicy and excellent for flavoring meat or greens.
Use this dry rub recipe so as to add an irresistible taste to dishes reminiscent of Immediate Pot Ribs, Air Fryer Rooster Wings, or Gradual Cooker Pulled Pork.
What’s a Dry Rub?
A dry rub is a mix of salt, dried spices, and generally sugar that’s used so as to add taste to hen, beef, pork, fish, tofu, and/or greens previous to cooking.
It’s referred to as dry as a result of it’s made with dry elements, versus a moist marinade which is made with moist and dry elements. Inventive, huh?!
Why You’ll love Utilizing This Selfmade Dry Rub
- Fast Outcomes. Utilizing a dry rub is likely one of the quickest methods to impart intense taste to your cooking. It is so simple as rubbing your protein of alternative or vegetable with the dry rub and cooking as desired–no prolonged time is required for marinating!
- Completely Balanced. This dry rub is nice from the brown sugar, smokey from the smoked paprika, and barely spicy due to the addition of cayenne pepper. Rounded out with garlic powder and onion powder, this spice rub is the right distinction of candy, savory, and spicy.
- Easy & Inexpensive Elements. You seemingly have all the things it is advisable to whip up this dry rub in your pantry always. This rub is made with on a regular basis spices, salt, and sugar, to create an reasonably priced seasoning mix that imparts HUGE taste.
- Versatile. This dry rub can be utilized to season something from seafood to poultry to beef to pork to greens to starches. And it may be used to season issues earlier than strain cooking, grilling, smoking, pan-frying, or gradual cooking.
Selfmade Dry Rub Elements
- Brown Sugar: Use mild or darkish brown sugar. The brown sugar will give a wealthy, candy taste to the rub and can assist your meat (or greens) to caramelize when cooked.
- Paprika: I extremely suggest utilizing smoked paprika, which can give this dry rub a barely smokey, nuanced taste. Nonetheless, common floor paprika will work as effectively.
- Garlic & Onion Powder: These each work so as to add a savory ingredient to the rub and pack in a ton of taste total.
- Kosher Salt: I like to recommend utilizing kosher salt, not iodized or desk salt. Kosher salt has a rough texture which permits it to stick to meats and different surfaces extra simply and flavors the dry rub higher because it has no components or iodine added that may barely impression the general style.
- Cayenne Pepper: The cayenne will add spice with out overwhelming the dry rub. Be at liberty to extend or lower the quantity added to regulate the spice degree of your rub.
- Black Pepper: Freshly floor black pepper rounds out the rub.
Getting ready & Storing Selfmade Dry Rub
I like to recommend getting ready this dry rub instantly previous to utilizing, quite than getting ready it in bulk and storing it within the pantry for an prolonged interval, as I like to recommend when getting ready different spice blends, reminiscent of Taco Seasoning and Chili Seasoning. As a result of brown sugar is added to this spice rub, it will possibly start to clump up and cake collectively if saved for an prolonged time period.
Fortunately, this spice mix takes solely a minute or two to mix, so you may prep it rapidly each time wanted!
Kristen’s Tip
I’ll add a observe, that you simply CAN retailer this spice mix for as much as 2 weeks in an hermetic container with no subject. If I do know I’m utilizing it for a lot of recipes over the upcoming week or two, I’ll double or triple the recipe. I might simply not suggest storing longer than 2 weeks.
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Earlier than making use of a dry rub, you will need to pat the meat or greens dry to make sure that the rub sticks evenly to the floor and adheres effectively.
Prompt Makes use of
The choices for this all-purpose dry rub are limitless. Let your style buds and creativeness information you within the numerous methods you employ this home made mix, however beneath are a number of of my private favourite recipes that use this home made dry rub.
- Rooster: I like utilizing this dry rub for seasoning Air Fryer Rooster Breast, Air Fryer Rooster Wings, and Grilled BBQ Rooster. It additionally is a superb substitute for seasoned salt in recipes like Immediate Pot Complete Rooster, Immediate Pot Wings, or Selfmade Rotisserie Rooster.
- Pork: This candy and savory dry rub creates the most effective flavoring for recipes like Air Fryer Pork Chops, Immediate Pot Pulled Pork, Immediate Pot Ribs, and Gradual Cooker Pulled Pork.
- Beef: Add a novel taste to Pan-Seared Steak, Selfmade Burgers, or use it to taste London Broil instead of the moist marinade.
- Seafood: Use instead of cajun seasoning for Mahi Mahi or to season Pan-Seared Tilapia. It is usually scrumptious when used as a dry rub for grilled shrimp.
- Greens: This candy, savory, and barely spicy dry rub is fabulous when used to season Air Fryer Potatoes or Baked Candy Potato Fries. It provides the potatoes a pleasant candy and smokey taste. You can even use it to season grilled corn on the cob earlier than grilling or vegetable kabobs.
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All-Objective Dry Rub
Made with easy elements this home made dry rub is nice, savory, and spicy and excellent for flavoring meat or greens.
Servings: 8
Energy: 3kcal
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Directions
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Mix the brown sugar, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, and cayenne collectively in a small bowl till all the things is effectively mixed.
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Use instantly, or retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 2 weeks within the pantry.
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Earlier than making use of a dry rub, you will need to pat the meat or greens dry with a paper towel to make sure that the rub sticks evenly to the floor and adheres effectively.
Notes
Cayenne Pepper: Be at liberty to extend or lower the quantity added to regulate the spice degree of your rub.
Salt: Use kosher salt for greatest outcomes, not desk salt or iodized salt.
Diet
Energy: 3kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 0.1g | Fats: 0.05g | Saturated Fats: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.03g | Monounsaturated Fats: 0.01g | Sodium: 49mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 137IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 2mg | Iron: 0.1mg
