Now you can make your own onion soup mix so you don’t have to use the MSG that comes in so many of them. It looks like a lot of ingredients, but once you make a batch it can be stored in your cupboard like any other spice.
Homemade Healthy Onion Soup Mix
Servings
3 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons minced onion
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients and store in an airtight container until ready to use. Should last up to a year.
Can I leave out the turmeric so that it doesn’t taste like Indian food?
It helps with color too and doesn’t make it taste like Indian food but of course you should make it to your taste.
I recently made a pork roast incorporating your homemade onion soup mix. Thanks so much for sharing it with us, I’m never going back to the store bought packets again! Although it was delicious, I didn’t really care for the color and you could taste a hint of Indian food to me. I would like to cook this dish again, but maybe leave out the turmeric. Would you suggest to substitute another spice in place of the turmeric or not? If so, what do you recommend? Thanks in advance!
Glad you liked it, I would just leave it out
This looks really good,
It does add a lot of the flavor here, but you can leave it out.
Can I leave out the celery seed for food sensitivity reasons?
I would use between 3 and 4 tablespoons and it should work well without meat and you can add beans or root vegetables.
Super–thanks Tamar!
Your quinoa cholent recipe calls for one package of onion soup. Exactly how much of your homemade onion soup mix would that be? Also, Since I don’t eat meat, I’d either eliminate the meat or sub it with something else. Hope it would work. Thanks so much!
For this recipe, you need dried minced since it needs to stay with all the other dry ingredients and last in your pantry.
Jamie, is the minced onion fresh minced onion or a from a commercially bought
jar of dried minced onion?
OMGoodness! Thank You! *pinned
Funny – bc I don’t like it much anymore and only use it when my other set of measuring spoons are dirty… but I believe I picked it up at Bed Bath and Beyond YEARS! ago.
YAYEEEE! I make this recipe x 20 and have it on hand in my spice cabinet at all times. I use it in soups, on rice, in kugels and on chicken!
Where did you get that tablespoon you used in video? Very cool
Just the other day I had a recipe that called for onion soup mix, but didn’t have any on hand. I do have all the ingredients and will mix up a batch now.
🙂
Me too!
YAYEEEE!
Hey there. You should use it in recipes that call for “onion soup mix” like this one: http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/spinach-noodle-kugel/
Of course it adds flavor and balances out all the other spices nicely but you can eliminate it if you’d like.
WOW Claire thank you SO SO SO much!!! I am so very happy you are happy!!!
I love, love, love your recipes. I’ve tried a number of them and am always so happy with how easy they are to prepare and how wonderful they turn out. Thank you so very much. Claire
Is the sugar an essential ingredient? Would rather not use it if possible.
Maybe this article on making your own stock will help, it has recipes for all kinds http://www.joyofkosher.com/2013/02/taking-stock-learn-to-make-your-own-stock/
Hi,
Do you have a homemade consomme recipe?
Definitely yes.
Can this be made in larger batches and stored?
I am NOT sure what to do NOW that I made the mix. Do I use it AS soup? Like add water? or what? Um, really want to know cause I made the mix. I don’t know HOW MUCH mix to water, or to other liquid or to what to do with it. I am lost. Please be very informative if you can be, I just have this mix sitting around now and don’t know how to use it. Thanks Much, Shalom
wow this is great – thanks so much. i have been substituing prima’s mr flavor spice until now. i can’t wait to try this.
I like do it yourself cooking. No boxed stuf.
I love this kind of recipes”kosher”
hi Amy! great eye — its just under 1/4 cup — about 3 heaping tablespoons
Approximately how much does one batch of this make? Looks like 1/4 C to me, but just checking.
Jessica,
You can used dried minced onion or or onion flakes that can be found in the spice aisle of the grocery store.
thanks Francine for helping Jessica!
do you have to cook the onion?
Hey Jessica see Francine’s answer above.