You know you have a keeper when you make a recipe and can't keep your hands away from the finished dish. So it is with this Everything Seasoning mix. I want to put "Everything" on everything. So far, I've put it on toast, scrambled eggs, vegetables, chicken and fish. With purposeful irony, I sprinkle it on top of a cream cheese- schmeared plain toasted bagel. I keep an open container of Everything in my seasoning basket along with kosher salt, hot sauce, soy sauce, pepper flakes and pepper mill.
Everything Seasoning
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
2 teaspoons nigella seeds
1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds
2 teaspoons dried onion flakes
2 teaspoons dried garlic flakes
2 teaspoons sea salt
Heat oven to 325 degrees.
Spread sesame and sunflower seeds in a pie pan and bake, shaking twice, until light golden, 7 to 8 minutes. Pour into a bowl.
In a frying pan over medium heat, toast the following in turn until fragrant and slightly darker, and add to bowl: poppy seeds, 5 minutes; nigella seeds, 2 minutes; caraway seeds, 1 minute.
Stir in dried onion flakes, dried garlic flakes and sea salt. Stir before using.
Makes about 3/4 cup.
Recipe adapted from Ox Restaurant in Portland, via Sunset magazine
Food on 04/29/2015