Make your own Celery Salt

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Celery salt isn’t a spice most folks use often, but when you need it, it needs it. Let me show you just how easy it is to make from scratch with just 2 simple ingredients!

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Make Celery Salt From Scratch

I don’t know about you but I’m not selling a body part to afford to buy a bottle of celery salt. Granted, as a chef, I use it more often than the regular home user, but why buy it when you can make it way cheaper?

All you need are a couple of ingredients, a food spice grinder, and a couple of minutes! Let me show you just how easy it is to make!

Celery Salt Recipe Ingredients

So this recipe is technically only 2 ingredients but I include a third as that’s needed for storage

  • Table Salt – regular old iodized salt works
  • Celery Seeds
  • Plain uncooked white rice
Celery Salt

How To Make Celery Salt

This couldn’t be any easier.  Buy a small coffee grinder (do not use the grinder you have for coffee — trust me, no one wants turmeric in their coffee!)  Just buy a small one and keep it for your spices.  I have this one from Cuisinart.  It’s nothing fancy, but it works awesome for my spices.

  1. Grind the celery seeds as finely as possible. Place in an electric spice grinder and grind to a fine powder.
  2. Place the salt into the grinder and process for 10 seconds to mix.
  3. Place the uncooked rice in the bottom of a glass jar. The rice will absorb any moisture and prevent the celery salt from clumping.
  4. Pour the spice mixture on top.
  5. Cover and store in a dry, dark place.

In under a minute, you can have homemade celery salt and not have to spend a small fortune on a teensy bottle!

How to store Homemade Celery Salt

If you’re using it right away, you can skip putting in the white rice. If not, I recommend you put them in glass spice jars that have a shaker plastic lid and screw-on cap.

Like all spices, store in a dry, dark area away from UV light.

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  • Author: The Kitchen Whisperer
  • Prep Time: 1 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 minutes
  • Yield: 1/2 cup celery sald
  • Category: spices
  • Method: grinder
  • Cuisine: spices

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoon celery seed
  • 6 tablespoon table salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon uncooked white rice

Instructions

  1. Grind the celery seeds as finely as possible. Place in an electric spice grinder and grind to a fine powder.
  2. Place the salt into the grinder and process for 10 seconds to mix.
  3. Place the uncooked rice in the bottom of a glass jar. The rice will absorb any moisture and prevent the celery salt from clumping.
  4. Pour the spice mixture on top.
  5. Cover and store in a dry, dark place.

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14 responses

  1. Kristine S

    Just going through my spice cabinet and checking expiration dates. With all I have to replace I am trying to save some money. How often do we need celery seed or salt??? I’ll use the morter and pestle for now and make this celery salt. Thanks so much!
    I also need to check expiration dates on what I buy. I noticed that some herbs and spices I bought during the holiday season are expired now.😠

    Reply
    1. Laurel

      Why would herbs ‘expire?’ It’s not like they’re bad now, just less potent. Don’t throw them away! That’s such an unnecessary waste of money. Just use them up, maybe having to use a little more than what’s called for to get the same potency.

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      1. Lori

        If herbs are dried correctly, you’re right they don’t expire but they do lose their potency. Add “more” than normal of the outdated herbs in theory sounds good but it can muddle the dish unnecessarily. You run the risk of adding “dull” and “muted” excess spices that can modify the dish in a negative way.

        Best Kitchen Wishes!

        Reply
  2. Janet Horwith

    I needed celery salt for Chicago Dogs. A wee little two ounce packet…$6.98!! Seriously, it should have crushed diamonds in it! I followed your recipe to the T and voila! Real celery salt! Thank you for the tip of putting a bit of rice at the bottom to keep it dry.

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  3. Barb

    I never have celery salt on hand, so last night I decided to try out making some. I did 50/50, and thought it was way too salty. I ended up doing ratio of 2 parts seed and 1 part salt. Decided to research today and notice you use a lot more salt then that.

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    1. TKWAdmin

      No, mine is a standard 2:1 salt to celery seed ratio. It is salt so you want that to shine through. The way you created, 2 parts seed to salt is more of Celery seasoning with a hint of salt. It’s not true celery salt. But that’s ok. If that works for you then all is good 🙂

      Best Kitchen Wishes!

      Reply
  4. Chaz

    Thank you so much for breaking this out in an easy to understand way. Recipe turned out great, much more flavorful than store bought—and obviously cheaper as you and other commenters have pointed out. I came looking for a recipe after finding my store completely sold out, but I did note the price too. I try to not be too harsh on the spice companies when it comes to their pre-packaged blends, because I think to them they were providing value by offering things like apple pie and pumpkin pie spices etc. If someone wanted to make something like that and didn’t have any of the ingredients then it would be somewhat of a bargain to not have to buy 3 separate bottles of the various spices needed–they could just buy the one that would have it all. Of course these days with all the info at our fingertips and with more people getting into cooking the need for these may be kind of running down… I agree though–so much better to make your own when you can!!

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  5. D Carr

    Fantastic and easy way to make this celery salt, as well as super cheap too.

    Reply
  6. Stephen Block

    Thank you this was very informative and worked well when I made it

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    1. TKWAdmin

      You’re most welcome Stephen!

      Best Kitchen Wishes!

      Reply
    2. Kelli

      I am so happy I found this recipe!
      Grind both the salt and celery seed separate. Then put them together and blend them. Put rice at the bottom of a glass jar and then add the mixture on top of the rice. It is perfect as stated!

      Reply
  7. Deborah S. Hart-Serafini

    Actually, I do put turmeric in my coffee, lol. I use one grinder because i have a small kitchen. You can grind white rice in your coffee grinder and it cleans right up.

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  8. Deborah

    Thank you! I too have looked at the price of celery salt and just about fell into my shopping cart! I couldn’t believe the price on the jars! So here I am on your website and happy to say with the help of your two ingredient (three if you count the rice in the bottom of my jar) recipe, my celery salt container is full and I am a happy cook. 🙂 Thanks for the great instructions. Now I am off to browse the rest of your site. Deborah

    Reply
    1. TKWAdmin

      Hi Deborah,

      You are most welcome! Yeah my jaw just about hit the cart when I saw the price of celery salt. I’m one that refuses to buy seasoning blends or spice blends when I know I can make them myself and control what goes in it! Just like say apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice. I will never buy the stuff already made. I’ll just make my own for a lot less!

      Best Kitchen Wishes!

      Reply

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