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-schmeered plain toasted bagel. I keep an open container of Everything in my personal seasoning basket along with kosher salt, hot sauce, soy sauce, pepper flakes and pepper mill. If the sunflower seeds are too sharp for your tummy, leave them out. Find nigella seeds (aka charnushka and kalonji) at Indian markets. Or just borrow some from an Indian friend.
Everything Seasoning
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
2 Tbsp. poppy seeds
2 tsp. nigella seeds
1/2 tsp. caraway seeds
2 tsp. dried onion flakes
2 tsp. dried garlic flakes
2 tsp. sea salt
Preheat 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.
— Ox Restaurant in Portland, via Sunset Magazine
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