Blackening Rub

[carpetride]

So what is typically is in a "blackening Rub"? A meat shop that I visit always has small tupperware type tubs for sale the owner says the recipe came from a restaurant in St. Louis. I bought a small batch and can taste: cummin, red pepper, onion, salt, I can see bits of green. Looks to be quite a bit more. Has a pretty good sting to the the tongue when I taste it but is not cayenne.

Thoughts on making a basic blackening rub or even a non-basic blackening rub for steaks such as strips and filet?

Cooking at 600 for two hours isn't working out so great

 

[jdt]

A local guy does blackened flank steaks on a BGE with this, never tried it myself but I ate the portion he served me.

1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tbsp. white pepper
1 1/2 tbsp. whole black peppercorns
1 1/2 tbsp. fennel seeds
2 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
2 tbsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. paprika
1 1/4 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. red pepper
1/2 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. thyme

 

[eman]

blackening down here is someting done in a red hot cast iron skillet. It is usually used on fish or shrimp.
You season w/ whatever you like Just make sure it has a small amount of sugar in the rub.
get your skillet HOT and i mean HOT! Coat the fish or shrimp w/ butter then season heavily.
OH YEA make sure you do this out side!
Place seafood in HOT skillet IT WILL SMOKE. flip seafood and cook other side same way.
You will have a nice brown - black crust on the outside .
Blackening is a cooking technique.
The only common ingrediants that you need are pepper and sugar the rest is up to you.
I have never tried it w/ red meat as it is a super fast high heat way of cooking

 

[jimr]

My son makes blackened catfish just like eman describes and WOW is that good eating!!

 

[vtanker]

I made this today and tried it on baked catfish tonight it was good!
Thanks JDT.

 

[erain]

took my mom out for dinner for her 81st birthday this past weekend, looked at menu, hmmmm ribs, steak, prime rib, nah, can do better at home... so i had some blackened mahi-mahi. it was awesome. anymore blakening recipies, send em in!!!! this blackening something i wanna get down. is good stuff!!!

 

[carpetride]

That I would add a little View to this thread

NY Strips, were salted for 30 minutes...need more time IMO and decided to try the blackening seasoning I bought. If it had been on a griddle I think I would have had more success in getting an even char. I used EVOO to hold the rub on. The mix that I bought lacked flavor after cooking.

 

[jdt]

I think the rub style is for red meat and chicken, I have seen the melted butter/sugar sauce on fish before but this was a cast iron pan sitting in charcoal and it was about 30 seconds per side cook time.

 

[trapper]

I concocted a rub very similar to JDT's. I don't have the recipe in front of me but the ingriedients look the same. We wanted something lower in salt than the commercial ones and that is what I finally came up with. We love it on grilled fish. I know it isn't truely blackened but we put oil or melted butter on fillets, cover with the rub and grill over very hot direct heat on the Weber. Only flip once so they don't fall apart and if it is hot enough they will "blacken" some but not taste burnt. Give it a try.