A Homemade Sazon Seasoning is a blend of spices used in many Latin American recipes. Is an all-purpose seasoning that will give your dishes a unique flavor and a nice yellowish color.
One of the best spice blends to have at home is a Homemade Sazon Seasoning. If you ever tasted Puerto Rican food, you’ve probably already tasted it.
Sazon is part of the base of Puerto Rican cooking alongside sofrito Puerto Rican style, adobo seasoning mix, and oil with annatto.
Sazon Is a perfect blend of spices made with garlic powder, coriander, cumin, ground annatto, salt, and MSG. It is a staple seasoning used in many dishes around the world.
I always use sazon to make any of my rice recipes like my rice and pork ribs or when making the Puerto Rican fried pork.
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Why This Recipe Works
It is a multipurpose seasoning recipe that can be used as a marinade and to season almost any savory recipe like these:
- Vegetable dishes like stewed Puerto Rican beans.
- Chicken recipes like chicken fried in a Puerto Rican style.
- Pork dinners like the Puerto Rican pork butt roast.
- Hearty soups like Sancocho stew.
- Rice dishes like my Puerto Rican arroz con maiz.
- Traditional Puerto Rican recipes like yellow Puerto Rican rice with beans.
Recipe Ingredients
- Ground Annatto- the annatto serves two purposes. First is the responsible spice for giving the sazon its color. It also adds a nice smoky flavor.
- Garlic powder- is great to add that garlicky flavor.
- Salt- We use a small amount of salt for flavor.
- Ground Coriander- is great in sazon because of its lemony aroma.
- Ground Cumin- is great but it may be a little strong for some people so is best to keep it at a minimum.
- Msg- is essential to sazon because it really brings out the umami flavor in sazon.
📓 Note: On Msg (monosodium glutamate)
- Some people ask if msg is a necessary ingredient and the answer is yes. One of the strongest flavors you get when you taste sazon comes from the msg. It is responsible for that delicious unique flavor. That being said if you don’t want to use it or can’t you can leave it out.
Variations
- With Saffron- this can be a good addition to add color if you already have some at home.
- Low in sodium- change the salt with a low sodium one or use half of the salt indicated.
- Without achiote or MSG- Just skip out on the ingredient.
How to Make Sazon Seasoning
- Step 1: This recipe is as simple as measuring everything, mixing, and storing.
- Step 2: It is important to store correctly. Use an airtight container. It can be a disposable storage bag, an empty spice bottle, or a jar. The important part is for it to be covered.
Recipe Tips
- When trying to use the same portion as a store-bought sazon packet, use 1 ½ teaspoon of the homemade mix.
- Sazon can last a long time. But the more time goes by, the more it will lose the aroma.
Frecuently Asked Questions
A Lot of people tend to think that Puerto Ricans invented Sazon. In reality, Sazon is a product created by a company named Goya that was established in 1936 by Spanish immigrants in New York.
You can buy sazon in almost any big supermarket. But there are benefits to making your own. The homemade sazon version has no additives or coloring!
Sazon does contain msg. It is an essential ingredient in your seasoning blend. The msg is key in sazon because it helps unify the flavors of the spices with its umami taste. If you can’t have msg you may leave it out but I must warn you that it won’t taste the same.
Recipes To Use Sazon
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Homemade Sazon seasoning
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons msg
- 1 tablespoon ground annatto (achiote)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
Instructions
- Measure all your ingredients. Add all your ingredients into a medium bowl or plastic bag and mix well. Store in an airtight container.
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Recipe Notes
- One of the most important ingredients in this recipe is the MSG because it gives the sazon a unique taste. But if you can’t consume it you can leave it out.
- Store in a dry cool place in an airtight container, glass jar, or plastic bag.
- When trying to use the same quantity of a sazon packet use 1 ½ teaspoon.
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