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A Great Mock Chicken Or Vegetable Bouillon Powder
This Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder is a perfect essential flavor base for recipes to have on hand. The spices enhance each other making a full bodied bouillon powder. Makes an excellent broth. Use for all your favorite vegetable soups and mock chicken recipes. I even use it in dips, on pop corn and mash potatoes. I’ve been wanting to try it out in homemade stuffing and mixed into twice baked potatoes. I’m sure you will find your own delicious use for it. It is very versatile.
A Little History On Nutritional Yeast
Nutritional Yeast is no stranger to time. It goes back as far as being used by the Egyptians. Or! Maybe better known today as “nooch” or “hippie dust” or some call it “yeshi“. Regardless it has been around for awhile and called many names and used as a supplement, condiment and ingredient.
What is it? Nutritional yeast is a single cell organism call Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.
Where do you find that? It is grown surprisingly on molasses maintaining a pH temperature and then harvested, washed and heat-dried. Heat-drying it deactivates it making it different then yeast used for making bread, beer and wine.
Professional nutritional yeast makers make Saccharomyces Cerevisiae yeast under sterile conditions in a laboratory before it can be cultivated. These producers securely store them in sub-zero temperatures to stop them from mixing with other microorganisms that can contaminate them. This is done because yeast flows freely though the air. This is how sourdough starter can grow when left on the counter over time. Pretty amazing how yeast in the environment that settles on your mixture of flour and water can start growing and fermenting.
Nutritional Facts On Nutritional Yeast And How It Gets Turned Into Flakes
Most people know that fallow a plant based diet that nutritional yeast is somewhat high in protein, fiber and B vitamins, particularly B12. We need vitamin B12 in order to survive. It helps to keep the body’s blood and nerve cells very healthy. It also helps to make DNA, helps with complications with infections or bleeding, and important for blood metabolism. So hence, nutritional yeast is added along with minerals. This is added during the production process. (not all nutritional yeast is B12 fortified so check to make sure before buying).
After it is fortified then the final step of making the nutritional yeast is to dry out the yeast. It is first dried by spinning the yeast and then rolling it out. This is then collected to what we see as flakes when we sprinkle it out onto our favorite foods. Making our culinary adventures truly delicious!
Extra Spices You Can Use To Make Homemade Bouillon Powder
When I make this Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder I make it to my liking. I have experimented with other variations and they are quite good. Although, I am very fond of this recipe and I’ve been making it for years (I did research Old Bay Seasoning that I use in this recipe and it is vegan to my knowledge).
However, there are other herbs and spices that can be used to alter the flavoring of your bouillon powder. Play around with it and see what you come up with. I advise making your experiments in little doses in case you don’t like them. Just remember to write down your amounts in case you come up with something amazing. Have fun!
- Poultry Seasoning
- Italian Seasoning
- Parsley Flakes
- Oregano
- Dried Minced Onions
- Smoked Paprika
- Garlic Salt
- Dried Mushroom Powder
- Cayenne Pepper
- Black Pepper
- Any Variety of Salts
How To Make Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder
Mixing spices can be so much fun. Using a nutritional yeast base makes it easy to work with. It is hard to really mess this up.
I first measure out all my spices and then mix them all together.
You can do this by putting the herbs and spices from the recipe in a jar and shake it up to make sure it is all mixed together well.
You can use the bouillon powder from here, but I often put it in a food processor. I made a half batch recipe for this blog so I used a small food processor but I usually use a large one for a full batch. (I use Hamilton Beach Food Processor) or I put it in the blender (I use Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System). If you choose to use the blender just make sure all the dust from the mixed spices and nutritional yeast have settled before opening the lid. It can be very messy if you open it to soon. I know from experience. Ha!
This helps to blend the mixture into a powder form even more. I really love the outcome of blending it this way. It is perfect for any culinary adventure with this sooth texture.
I hope you love this Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder as much as we do. Enjoy!
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Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 24 to 30 servings 1x
- Category: Soup
- Method: Food Processor
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
This Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder is a perfect essential flavor base for recipes to have on hand. The spices enhance each other making a full bodied bouillon powder. Makes an excellent broth. Use for all your favorite vegetable soups and mock chicken recipes. I even use it in dips, on pop corn and mash potatoes. I’ve been wanting to try it out in homemade stuffing and mixed into twice baked potatoes. I’m sure you will find your own delicious use for it. It is very versatile.
Ingredients
Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder
- 1/2 cup Nutritional Yeast
- 1 1/2 Tbsp Onion Powder
- 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
- 1/2 Tbsp Celery Seeds
- 1/2 Tbsp Pink Himalayan Salt or Sea Salt (more if desired)
- 1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- 1 tsp dried Thyme
- 1 tsp dried Sage
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 4 tsp Black Pepper (optional)
Instructions
Easy Homemade Bouillon Powder
- Measure out all the ingredients into a jar.
- Mix all the spices together with a small spoon then put the lid on and shake it all together. You can use the mixture like this.
- Or, you can put it into a food processor (I use a Hamilton Beach Food Processor) or a blender (I use the Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System)
- Process it until it is to your desired powder consistency.
- Store in a jar with a lid until ready to use.
Notes
Use 1 1/2 teaspoons per cup of water.
Store in a jar with a lid in the cupboard.
Will last as long as the expiration on your bag of nutritional yeast or Old Bay Seasoning.
