Spices?

[The Halk]

I'm fat so I'm on a diet! That means I'm trying to control my food intake and in order to eat a varied diet I'll need to spice meat up a bit or I'll get bored and crave stuff that's not going to help me.

In my cupboard at the moment I have garlic puree (looks like toothpaste), rosemary, thyme, black pepper, salt, cinnamon, oregano and a mix called italian seasoning (which is basically oregano, plus a few others). I also have hot chilli powder, jalfrezi mix as well.

I'll be eating mainly chicken, but also fish (probably white), and some pork, and beef - nothing is really off the cards as long as it's easy to get hold of and isn't high in fat.

So... what kind of spices should I be getting hold of to wake the meat up and make it taste good?

I've been rubbing the garlic puree onto a frozen chicken breast fillet and then putting rosemary and thyme on it and it's been very tasty indeed. Or the italian seasoning.. But eventually I'll get bored with that so I need a few pointers.

 

[Razor-BladE]

Chili flakes, paprika and cajun spice. Cajun spice on salmon; NOM NOM NOM!

You can make a dry rub for chicken with cajun spice, paprika, chili flakes, pepper, salt and a bit of herbs.

 

[jackthezipper]

Cumin, Parpika and Chilli Flakes/powder. Mix onto chicken breast with a little oil and grill

I just had grilled chicken with garlic (granules :O ), dried basil, paprika and some tabasco sauce with a little olive oil. Was very tasty and moist.

 

[pepp77]

Chilli
Paprika (smoked is best IMO)
Cumin
Coriander
Mustard Powder
Oregano
Salt
Pepper

Are the spices/herbs/seasonings that I always have stock of.

A really good dry rub for pork is

1 Tbs Finely Chopped Onion
1 Tbs Finely Chopped Garlic
1 Tsp Mustard Powder
1 Tsp Smoked Paprika
1 Tsp Chilli Powder
1 Tsp Cumin
1 Tsp Oregano
1 Tbs Brown Sugar
1 Tbs Salt

Rub that over a bone in loin joint, then stick it in the oven (straight in a pan) covered in tin foil at 90c for about 10-12hours.

After cooking remove from oven, shred and pour the liquid that has come out of the meat during cooking over the shredded meat and mix.

Awesome pulled pork


ps - feel free to remove the sugar.

 

[JC]

By no means definitive, just some suggestions

Chinese
Ginger
Garlic
Soy
Fresh Chilli / Chilli Flakes


Lebanese
Nutmeg
Ginger
Allspice
Fenugreek
Cloves
Cinnamon


Chinese
Szechuan peppercorns
Cloves
Cinnamon
Star Anise
Fennel Seeds

Moroccan
Tumeric
Paprika
Coriander Seeds
Garlic
Allspice
Cinnamon

 

[DirtyJester]

Halk have a look here, you can replace the lager/ale with something else like diet whatever.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18422493/#9

 

[The Halk]

Thanks folks - I think that gives me enough of a start, I can google specifics and work out by trial and error what works.

 

[Nightglow]

Chicken salad tonight.

Used Schwartz 'Perfect Shake' for the chicken breast, gives the chicken a nice zing.

 

[monkeyspank]

Lol after all that

 

[The Halk]

I don't think I understand Monkeyspank...

 

[jellybeard999]

If you just want something quick and easy, Asda do a range of pre-mixed spices which are great for a quick tea.

eg

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-esto...sle&startValue=4951&referrer=cookiesDetecting

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-esto...me=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=50274

etc

 

[Nightglow]

There is a whole range of 'Schwartz 'Perfect Shake' spices available, each a nicely blended mix.
They also have some great recipes on their site as well.

http://www.schwartz.co.uk/Products/Seasonings-and-Blends/Perfect-Shake.aspx

 

[monkeyspank]

I don't think I understand Monkeyspank...

Sorry, my mistake! For some reason I thought you were the op.

 

[DirtyJester]

Sorry, my mistake! For some reason I thought you were the op.

Never worry matey, plenty fat peeps in here

 

[The Halk]

One more thing... I'm going to order some with my groceries.

Is it worth taking the near double the price Shwartz stuff, or is Sainsbury's own make just as good?

I'm thinking by the time I use it the extra cost per meal will be fractions of a penny.

 

[DirtyJester]

One more thing... I'm going to order some with my groceries.

Is it worth taking the near double the price Shwartz stuff, or is Sainsbury's own make just as good?

I'm thinking by the time I use it the extra cost per meal will be fractions of a penny.

When I buy my herbs / spices by the jar I tend to go with the supermarket own brand, simply becuase it's cheaper and only added into the mix (so to speak). Whenever I can't source which spice / herb it is then I'll but Shwartz or whatever and tbh mate I'm honestly hard pushed to tell the difference between any of them.

 

[T345]

Tbh don't use origano and lemon together, on a salad

 

[The Halk]

I'll go with whatever is cheapest then

I've got in the basket...

Tabasco sauce
Mustard powder
Dunn's River Caribbean Everyday Seasoning
Ground coriander
Ground cumin
Ground allspice
Marjoram - almost oregano by my understanding
Hot paprika
Lemon pepper

Schwartz perfect shakes are on offer..so I've grabbed lots

Chargrilled chicken
Chicken
Fish
Garlic italian
Lamb
Pork
All
Edit : oops missed out
Spicy Italian
Steak
Piri Piri
Jamaican Jerk

Combined with what I already had from the first post

In my cupboard at the moment I have garlic puree (looks like toothpaste), rosemary, thyme, black pepper, salt, cinnamon, oregano and a mix called italian seasoning (which is basically oregano, plus a few others). I also have hot chilli powder, jalfrezi mix as well.

I think that's enough to be going on with.... there's no gaping holes in my spice cupboard are there?

 

[DirtyJester]

Massive gap!

Dried chilli flakes!

 

[The Halk]

Hmm. This is all they have - "Sainsbury's Crushed Chillies 32g" and I already have "Sainsbury's Hot Chilli Powder 33g" in the cupboard...

I think I might need to get by with the 101 other spices for now