Transform your dinner recipes with five easy flavorful spice blends that only take 5 minutes to make. These chicken spice rubs are great on sheet pan dinners, roasted or grilled veggies, meat and seafood. These chicken spice rubs are absolute perfect to beer can chicken spice rub up flavors for the week! Can you use rub as a seasoning?
What equipment will you need to make these dry rubs? To tell you have been excited about this post is an understatement. I honestly, don’t have anything like it on my website. But, as I got to thinking about fun new posts for you guys I thought of one of the most popular recipes on JHE, it’s my Grilled Chicken with a homemade Spice Rub.
It’s a great lean protein that is commonly eaten in most homes so it’s highly searched on my site. People want flavor without the calories and this spice rub gives it to them! It has a 5 star review so if you haven’t made it yet, make sure you do! Today I am giving you not only ONE but FIVE dynamite dry rub recipes for chicken, but they can also be used on other things like veggies, seafood and some beef. The dry rub forms a tasty coating on the food and therefore a crust on the surface once it is grilled or broiled. Dry rubs can be prepared from any combination of ingredients depending on the flavor you are desiring.
A dry rub is very much like a seasoning, it just sometimes has larger pieces of dried herbs and spices in it. Using a rub is a great way to add flavor and surface texture to your meat and the best way to make a flavorful crust on the surface. Just think of things like smoked brisket or pork, all of those have a rub on them. Rubs are usually coarser than seasonings and are applied much more liberally. So yes, you could use a rub as a seasoning, I just would not apply as much. All of these spices are pantry staples and can be found at your grocery store!
5 Dry Rub Recipes for Chicken! I absolutely love this spice blend! This Basic Dry Rub is a pantry staple in our house. If I’m wanting to add a little more flavor than just salt and pepper I grab this Simple Dry Rub. It adds so much flavor to your chicken or anything you add it to.
2 tablespoons of the dry rub to a bowl along with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, stir to make a paste and then rub it onto your chicken. If you know anything about me by now, you know that I love all things chipotle flavored because I’m a tex-mex aholic! Spices like smoked paprika, cumin and ancho chili powder take this spice rub over the top! It’s great to use on BBQ Chicken before the sauce or you could even put it on Ribs!
A flavorful rub that I’ve used already multiple times! Filled with savory flavor from garlic and onion powder countered with the classic herby flavor from Greek cooking like dried basil, oregano and dill. I’ve used this Mediterranean Dry Rub on chicken, veggies and most recently steak! This rub hasn’t met an ingredient it didn’t like! The KEY to making this dry rub is zesting the lemon first and then spreading it out on parchment paper so the zest completely dries out. Pro Tip: If the lemon zest has any moisture in it, it will mold the rub.