Homemade Blackened Seasoning for Steak, Fish, and Chicken

Whether cooking at home or over a campfire, blackened seasoning can spice up steaks, chicken, fish, and other seafood. This homemade blackened seasoning recipe adds a spicy kick is easy to make. As an added benefit, making homemade seasoning/spice blends is cheaper that buying store-bought seasonings.

Homemade Blackened Seasoning Recipe

My favorite way to use this blackened seasoning is on fish. I will most often use it on catfish to make Blackened Grilled Catfish. This seasoning is also really good on tilapia, salmon, and other fish. Butit’s also fantastic with chicken like this blackened chicken recipe.

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To get the spice blend “blackened”, I like to use a cast-iron skillet. It retains heat really well and allows me to basically char the seasoning to form the black spice crust I want.

How to blacken fish

1. Heat the skillet to medium heat
2. Add a little oil and then add your fish filets.
3. Cook 4-5 minutes on each side, being careful to only turn once.

Above is a blackened ribeye steak. The best way to cook any steak, in my opinion, is in a cast iron skillet. Here tips in cooking a steak in this New York Strip Steak Recipe with Rosemary Garlic Butter reipce that can have blackened seasoning substituted.

Other recipe/meal ideas using this homemade blackened seasoning recipe:

• Blackened Chicken Alfredo
• Blacked Steak with a Herbed Garlic Butter
• Blackened Fish Tacos with Coleslaw and Sriracha Mayo
• Blackened Carrots and Sweet Potatoes (oven roasted is the easiest)

Storing  Seasonings 

With homemade seasoning, it’s up to you if you’d like to make a small or large amount of seasoning. I like to make smaller batches and store my homemade seasonings/spice mixes in these glass containers*. They have nice looking chalkboard labels and shaker insert lids to make it easier to sprinkle seasoning onto any food.

Simple Blackened Seasoning Recipe