Mexican spice rub

I haven’t found anything that this spice rub doesn’t work with yet! It’s so versatile and can be used on meat, fish, tofu, halloumi, veggies. I even used it to flavour a creamy tomato pasta sauce the other day. I made a big pot of this for my son to take to uni and he said he has used it with almost every meal!!! 

Using a spice blend is also a great way of increasing plant diversity in your diet, as each ingredient counts as one of the 30 plants a week that Tim Spector of Zoe suggests may optimise gut health.

Ingredients

Fills a 15cl IKEA Rajtan spice jar

• 1/2 cup chili powder

• 1/4 cup Hungarian sweet paprika

• 1 tablespoon ground cumin

• 2 teaspoons dried oregano

• 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder

• 1 teaspoon onion powder

• 1 teaspoon ground dried chipotle chile pepper

• 1 teaspoon sea salt

method

Mix all the ingredients together in a medium-sized bowl and store in an airtight jar