Celery Salt isn’t something I use that frequently but when I need it, I am ALWAYS out of it. So I went to the grocery store yesterday to buy some and for a TEENY little bottle it was $8! Seriously $8 for nothing but some preservatives, crushed celery seed and salt. I think I was paying for the glass container rather than the contents.
Since I’m huge on making my own spice blends I put the diamond encrusted spice bottle (it had to be that way for me to pay $8!) and decided to make my own. When I got home I turned to google and just did a quick search on it. People seriously… 2 ingredients.. well okay 3 if you count the rice but that’s just in there for a moisture factor.
This couldn’t be any easier. I’d say if you’re going to get into making your own spices, 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.
In under a minute you can have your own celery salt and not have to spend a small fortune on a teensy bottle!
Make your own Celery Salt
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Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon celery seed
- 6 tablespoon table salt
- 1/2 teaspoon uncooked white rice
Instructions
- Grind the celery seeds as finely as possible. Place in an electric spice grinder and grind to a fine powder.
- Place the salt into the grinder and process for 10 seconds to mix.
- Place the uncooked rice in the bottom of a glass jar. The rice will absorb any moisture and prevent the celery salt from clumping.
- Pour the spice mixture on top.
- Cover and store in a dry, dark place.
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.😠
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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.
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.
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 🙂
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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!!
Fantastic and easy way to make this celery salt, as well as super cheap too.
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Thank you this was very informative and worked well when I made it
You’re most welcome Stephen!
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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!
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.
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
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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!
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