Homemade Onion Soup Mix can be used anywhere you might use one of those packets: in a crock-pot, a stew, a dip (just stir the soup mix into some sour cream), or even soup. It’s easy to mix together, it’s vegetarian, and it’s delicious! There’s also no weird ingredients that you can’t pronounce or don’t have any clue what they are!
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Onion Soup Mix packets!
When I was a kid, I used to come home from school and make those onion soup packets into soup and eat that as my after-school snack. Weird, I know! Of course, I can’t eat those packets anymore because they have beef (plus lots of weird ingredients) in them. I love that this version is vegetarian and gluten-free.
Freaky Friday Blog Hop
I’m very excited to be participating in this first edition of Freaky Friday with a wonderful recipe for Homemade Onion Soup Mix from Honey & Birch! What’s Freaky Friday, you ask? Michaela at An Affair from the Heart came up with the idea for this old-fashioned blog hop.
In a nutshell Freaky Friday is … I’ve made and shared a recipe from Jenny at Honey & Birch, and she’s made a recipe from someone (a secret that I don’t know who it is yet), and she’s made a recipe from someone, and if you clicked through all the way around all 14 bloggers, you would get back to my blog. Thus, a blog hop!
So, if you would be so kind as to hop around and take a look at everyone participating, I promise it’ll be fun, and you’ll get lots of new recipe ideas!
Jenny at Honey & Birch:
I recently met Jenny through Facebook, and have been very impressed with her recipes and yummy photos. She shares many of the same ideas about food as I do. Though she isn’t vegetarian, her recipes feature lots of whole foods, and very few processed foods or junk foods. She says in her About Section, “While we aren’t health nuts, I realized we were heading down the wrong path and I decided that I need to make a change.” Yep, I was there at one time too, eating out too often and wanting to eat better.
I looked through her fabulous collection of recipes and was really excited about her Homemade Onion Soup Mix. See, I’ve been thinking about one of my Childhood Favorites Remade for a while now, and Lipton Onion Soup Packets were one of the ingredients in the original main dish recipe. Well, now if Jenny has a homemade version of Onion Soup Mix, that fit perfectly into my plans!
Childhood Favorites Remade!
The last recipe I posted was for Dried Apricot Jam, which is a homemade version of one of the ingredients in the final Childhood Favorites Remade main dish. Now, this Onion Soup Mix is the next ingredient in the final main dish. I have one more ingredient recipe to share, and then the main dish! I’m very excited about this one! And, if you want to jump ahead to the end, here’s the final dish: Italian Apricot Stew or Italian Apricot Chicken.
So, with that, here’s some Homemade Onion Soup Mix, and please be sure to click through to visit Honey & Birch. Oh, and keep an eye out for my next two recipes (so you can get the Childhood Favorites Remade main dish!)
Here are all the awesome recipes in the first Freaky Friday Blog Hop:
Lemon Crumb Loaf from Who Needs A Cape?
Oatmeal Fudge Bars from PicNic
Cheddar Jalapeno Beer Bread from Aunt Bee’s Recipes
Bacon & Egg Fried Rice from Big Rigs ‘n Lil’ Cookies
General Tso’s Slow Cooker Chicken from The Foodie Affair
Roasted Cauliflower Popcorn from A Dish of Daily Life
Homemade Drumsticks from Simply Sated
Grilled Chicken Fajitas from Honey & Birch
Cranberry Ginger Cream Scones from Stephanie Cooks
Chocolate Waffle Cookie Dessert from An Affair from the Heart
Spicy Meatball Orzo Soup from Full Belly Sisters
Recipes I’ve used this mix in:
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Onion Soup Mix Dip
Italian apricot stew
Italian Apricot Chicken
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Homemade Onion Soup Mix Recipe
Homemade Onion Soup Mix
Ingredients
- ½ cup dry onion flakes
- 3 teaspoons parsley flakes
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a small bowl or jar with a tight fitting lid, and mix well. Store in an airtight container up to 2 months.
Notes
This mix makes about 32 teaspoons or 11 tablespoons worth.
Calorie calculation is for the total batch amount. Adapted from Honey and Birch
OMG this is such a FAB idea!! LOVE it! Pinning and visiting her site!
Debi, this is BRILLIANT! I am making some this weekend. My kids love to stir it into sour cream after school and eat with chips. In fact, they had it yesterday! Happy you had fun on FreakyFriday, and that you were a part of it! <3
We adore the onion soup mix so I will have to try this homemade version! What a wonderful idea!
What a great idea to make homemade onion soup mix. Hubby and I love making homemade mixes, instead of spending tons on store bought. Love this recipe, and now want to add some to Greek yogurt for a fun dip! Yum, Hugs, Terra
I don’t buy the onion mix because I’m not a fan, but I will definitely make this. I love this idea.
It’s so genius to have a real-food version of the stuff in the packet! And, as always, my dear: your pix are gorgeous. Can I be you? 😉
Oh my dear, Justine, thanks so much! You have always been so kind. I think you were the first blogger that I considered I was part of a community with. I can’t wait to see what you made. Will stop by soon. 🙂
Love this way to “Step away from the package” Thanks Debi!
Awesome, awesome, awesome! So simple and straightforward. Who woulda thought 😉
This soup mix is a fantastic idea! I bet it makes such a delicious soup 🙂
Adding this to my list of things to make ASAP, great pics Debi!
OMG Debi… I so have to make this! Onion soup mix is so versatlie but the ingredients in every commercial brand I have seen are just horrid! I am already thinking about lots of yummy ways to use your mix…thank you so much!! PS…your photos are amazing!
I knew I had to read this post and recipe the minute I saw it on the EYR thread; I love it! And how fun it must be to do the whole Freaky Friday thing! Great job with this one!
Deb, this is brilliant!
This is genius Debi. All the goodness of an onion dip mix and none of the bad stuff! LOVE this.
I love this! We cleaned the soup packets out of our kitchen some time ago. There are times I do miss their convenience, so I need to have this on hand! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe!
Awesome! The more options from pre-packaged ingredients, the better! Love to have this one on hand!
I never knew this soup mix can be made that damn easy at home,sure going to try ,lovely clicks
I just love the idea of making this at home … with no “questionable” ingredients! 😀 ~Shelley
Love this, Debi! For some reason Onion Soup Mix is one of those things that is incredibly hard to find in the UK. So glad I can now make my own thanks to you 🙂