Seasoning Salt for French Fries or Fried Potatoes

Image: Seasoning Salt

• Ingredients
  • 1 medium onion (~80g, but it doesn't have to be exact)
  • 4 Tbsp salt
  • 3 Tbsp paprika
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • ~1 tsp (2g) mace
    • I only have whole, dried mace, so I don't know exactly how much volume it would have as powder. I just used a teaspoon filled with small pieces of mace, but it probably doesn't matter too much anyways. (Image)
• Instructions
  • Cut onion into small pieces and place in frying pan without oil. (Image)
  • Fry onion on medium heat for 15-20 minutes, occasionally turning the pieces, then leave on the hot (but turned off) stove until cool in order to dry the onion pieces. If a gas stove is used, it may be necessary to keep a very small flame on since no further heat comes after it is turned off. (Image)
    • It may be necessary to increase the time depending on various factors.
    • The onion pieces may get fairly dark brown, but they shouldn't actually get burnt unless the heat is too high (in the image, they may have gotten a bit too dark because I accidentally had the stove too hot).
    • It's probably possible to dry the onions using an oven as well, but I just did it with a frying pan and haven't experimented with other methods.
  • Grind dried onion pieces, paprika, pepper, and mace together in a spice or coffee grinder.
    • It might be a good idea to grind the onions alone and leave the powder to dry for a while since the onion pieces often will not be perfectly dry. I haven't experimented with this yet, though.
  • Add salt and grind for a few more seconds to mix it properly and make the salt a bit more fine-grained (the salt I get here is relatively fine-grained, but I still found it to be a bit coarse for my taste).
  • Note: Even though this seasoning salt is "officially" meant for french fries, you can dump it on a lot of other things as well.