Order some hot chips from a fish’n’chip shop in Australia and you’ll be graced by the quintessential Australian spice: chicken salt. If god forbid your pantry’s run out of this great spice, there’s a super easy two-minute tutorial by YouTube channel Free To Cook to save you from having to eat plain salted chips.
You’ll only need seven ingredients for Free To Cook‘s recipe which is rather simple — it’s really just about putting all the ingredients together and shaking them up. Once you’ve fried up your chips, sprinkle the mixture on top and you’re good to go.
Of course, there is a lot of salt present in the mix — far more than recommended for daily human intake, so don’t go devouring the chicken salt on its own. This shouldn’t have to be said at all but the stuff is pretty genius and it’s hard to keep away.
The ingredients used are listed below:
- 6 Tbsp table salt
- 3 Tbsp chicken stock
- 3 Tbsp garlic powder
- 3 Tbsp sweet paprika
- 1 Tsp white pepper
- 1 Tsp onion powder
- 1 Tsp Celery seeds
Personally, I am always stocked up with a store-bought shaker of chicken salt but it could be fun trying to make it at home.
Give this recipe a try and give us a shout in the comments if you’ve been sold. We’d also love to hear from you if you have a variation on the recipe that makes an already killer chicken salt even better.
This article has been updated since its original publication.
When the chicken salt is yellow, Turmeric has been used instead of the Paprika.
Vegan versions obviously do not include the chicken stock.
Thank you for this vital information, I like the yellow Chicken Salt.
I’m am being sincere here, that was truly vital information to me.
This is pure.
The “vegan version” wouldn’t be called chicken salt then!
Let the vegans enjoy the delight of spices too!
Massel Stock Powder has no animal content. It doesn’t make sense to me either.
As far as I am aware, chicken salt was originally rubbed on chicken before you roasted it, so hence the name. Most of the chicken salts you can buy in the supermarket are vegan friendly..
Nah, it’s still called chicken salt. It gets it’s name from it’s original intended use (seasoning chicken) rather than it’s ingredients. Same with pumpkin spice- there’s no pumpkin in it, it’s simply the blend used to add flavour to pumpkin pies.
If everything was named for it’s ingredients rather than use, we’d be very worried about baby powder.
Actually there are plenty of ‘chicken’ stocks that don’t have chicken or any animal product in them… they are just flavour. But the vegan version could be ChiKKen Salt.
and the klan version would be ChiKKKen salt then?
Which is weird, because sweet paprika has flavour, where as turmeric does not.
My solution is being great friends with my local fish and chip shop and buying a tub off them every month.
Real chicken salt contains no chicken stock… it’s ‘flavour’ and is vegetarian.
I see white pepper on so many recipes, but I have never managed to find any (its also given as the key ingredient of KFC). Does anyone know somewhere that reliably stock it?