Healthy Seasoning your meat - Healthy fish seasoning

Store bought pre-mixed spice blends are convenient but often loaded with chemicals.  Often overlooked, these additives, like MSG are very bad for your health and by reading the ingredients you will see that there is probably too much salt and empty calories.

Preparing your own blend of spice will not only help you save money but allow you to control what you are putting into your body.  Preparing spice blends is really easy and takes only a moment, you can even get your kids to do it.  Leftover spice mix can be stored in spice jars for easy access or frozen for long term storage.  The seasoning recipe below can be frozen for up to 3 months, simply multiply the quantities to suit your needs.

Here is an example of how I seasoned some frozen butterfish fillets:

Ingredients:

2 green onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 scotch bonnet pepper, diced
A few sprigs of fresh thyme
2 teaspoons (10 ml) curry powder
2 teaspoons (10 ml) freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons (10 ml) sweet paprika
1 teaspoon (5 ml) sea salt

Directions:

Toss the fish to coat in the seasonings and allow to marinate at least an hour.

Bake at 400 degrees once seasoned and thawed for twenty minutes.

Pictured below with fresh lime