Name: Secret Ingredient Homemade Taco Seasoning
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons chili powder, we recommend our homemade blend; 1 tablespoon ground cumin; 2 teaspoons cornstarch; 2 teaspoons kosher salt; 2 teaspoons mushroom powder, optional, here’s our recipe; 1 1/2 teaspoons hot smoked paprika; 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander; 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or more based on how spicy you want the mix

This homemade spice blend tastes much better than anything you can buy at the store. Most ingredients are likely already sitting in your spice cabinet. The secret ingredient is mushroom powder. You can make you own (here&#8217;s our recipe), or buy it. The taco seasoning will still taste great without it, but if you can include it we highly recommend it. Also, the amount of cayenne pepper is up to you. We call for 1/2 teaspoon, which makes the spice blend a mild to medium heat level.

Secret Ingredient Homemade Taco Seasoning

chili powder, we recommend our homemade blend

cumin

cornstarch

salt

mushroom powder, optional, here’s our recipe

hot smoked paprika

coriander

cayenne pepper,

Made this seasoning tonight for tacos, minus the salt and dried mushroom powder.  It was so good! Very similar to the commercial taco seasoning from stores, not as salty.  We eat our tacos as salad with salty chips so didn't notice the lack of salt there, but would if it was part of a recipe or without salty chips or whatever.  I have made other homemade taco seasoning mixes and they were a completely different taste, waaaay too spicy and generally disappointing.  Keeping this recipe for sure and if I can find dried mushrooms will it with that next time!

I have shied away from the packaged seasoning mixes because of the overwhelming sodium. (Salt restricted diet!) This solves THAT problem and it tastes so much better than the commercial variety. Thank you for this!

Secret Ingredient Homemade Taco Seasoning

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total: 10 minutes

Servings: 3.5

Cost: $7.82 /serving

Author : Adam and Joanne Gallagher

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