Pork Chop Seasoning (Dry Pork Rub)

This Pork Chop Seasoning is the best way to add flavors to any piece of pork, like pork chops, pork tenderloins, or pork roast. Plus, it takes just 5 minutes to whip up a batch of this pork seasoning recipe, and it lasts several months in the pantry.

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I have been making my homemade seasoning recipes for a very long time. If you have tried my low-sodium taco seasoning or chicken taco seasoning, I always have them in my pantry to season meat for a BBQ or party.

They are always the best way to enhance the flavor of pork whenever it’s summer and you are grilling pork chops on the BBQ, or you are using your oven to make oven-baked pork chops or broiled pork chops.

Pork is a delicious, tender, juicy meat when well cooked, but it can also be very bland. That’s why seasoning, or using my pork marinade, is the key to bringing your pork pieces to the next level.

This pork seasoning recipe has a balance of sweetness from brown sugar to crisp the pork and adds a lightly sweet flavor to the meat, balanced by the smoked taste of paprika and spicy cayenne pepper, pepper, and dried mustard seeds.

Ingredients and Substitutions

My expert tip to make a great seasoning recipe for pork is to combine the five tastes that we all love in food: sweet, spicy, salty, sour or bitter, and umami.

• Smoked Paprika has a smoky, woody, lightly spicy flavor that turns any piece of pork mild-spiced with a hint of sweetness.
• Kosher Salt – Salt in pork delivers a more robust meat flavor. It enhances the umami taste.
• Dried Mustard Seeds add bitterness to the seasoning.
• Pepper and Cayenne Pepper – While we often think both peppers are the same and easily interchangeable in seasoning recipes, this is wrong. Cayenne peppers have a spicy flavor close to jalapeno pepper or chili powder, while black pepper is hot and woody. You need both in the pork seasoning blend to make the meat not too hot but still spicy.
• Garlic Powder has a less pungent flavor than fresh garlic cloves adding a mild garlic flavor to the pork seasoning.
• Dried Oregano has a strong aromatic flavor that adds earthy, minty notes to the meat seasoning.
• Italian Seasoning is a blend of dried herbs that flavors pork with a nice earthy piney flavor with a perfect balance of sweet and sour flavors.
• Onion Powder enhances the umami flavor already present in the meat.
• Brown Sugar creates the perfect blend of sweet and savory in your meat. The sugar also creates a crispy crust on the meat keeping the meat tender, moist, and juicy.

How To Make Pork Chop Seasoning

1. Simply stir all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and combine evenly.
2. Store the mix in an airtight glass mason jar in the pantry in a cool, dry place for up to a year.

More Seasoning Recipes

If you like this recipe, you’ll love these other seasoning options:

Carne Asada Seasoning

Low Sodium Taco Seasoning

Chicken Taco Seasoning

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Pork Chop Seasoning (Dry Rub)

3.4gNet Carbs

This Pork Chop Seasoning is the best way to add flavors to any piece of pork, like pork chops, pork tenderloins, or pork roast.

Author: Carine Claudepierre

Prep: 5 minutes mins

Total: 5 minutes mins

Yield: 3 servings (2 tablespoons each)

Serving Size: 2 tablespoons

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Ingredients

• ▢ 2 tablespoons Smoked Paprika
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Kosher Salt
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Black Ground Pepper
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Soft Brown Sugar
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoon Garlic Powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Onion Powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Oregano
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Dried Mustard Seeds
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper

Instructions

• In a small jar, bring all ingredients together. Close the jar lid and shake vigorously to combine.
• Pat dry your pork piece with absorbent paper, rub the meat with avocado oil, then rub the pork seasoning generously. Pat the dry rub on all sides of the meat.

Notes

Storage: Store the seasoning in a glass jar in the pantry in a cool, dark, dry place. Store for up to 1 year or up to the shortest expiry date of the spices used in the recipe. 

Sugar-free – use brown erythritol instead of sugar, or don’t add any sugar.

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NutritionServing Size: 2 tablespoons

Yield: 3 servings (2 tablespoons each)

Nutrition

Serving: 2 tablespoonsCalories: 29.5 kcal (1%)Carbohydrates: 6.4 g (2%)Fiber: 3 g (13%)Net Carbs: 3.4 gProtein: 1.3 g (3%)Fat: 0.8 g (1%)Saturated Fat: 0.2 g (1%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4 gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1 gSodium: 2330.8 mg (101%)Potassium: 178.1 mg (5%)Sugar: 0.6 g (1%)Vitamin A: 2401.5 IU (48%)Vitamin C: 0.4 mgCalcium: 46.3 mg (5%)Iron: 1.8 mg (10%)Magnesium: 17.5 mg (4%)Zinc: 0.3 mg (2%)