Our Chipotle BBQ Seasoning amplifies the flavor of smoked meat and adds a slight earthy spiciness to sauces. We add granules of honey to accent the chipotles' rich spice with a light, natural sweetness. The resulting spicy-sweet combination is excellent as a dry rub for barbeque or mixed into homemade barbeque sauces and marinades. 

All about Chipotle BBQ Seasoning, Spice Blend

What it’s like, and how to make it

HeatMild
CuisineAmerican & canadian, mexican & latin
Best forGrill bbq, roasting, marinades rubs
Goes inGrills roasts, dips sauces, roasted vegetables
WithChicken, pork, beef, vegetarian, bison
What’s in itgranulated honey, dried chipotle pepper, sea salt, paprika, granulated onion, granulated garlic

How to use it

Smoky-sweet in one scoop. Rub on ribs, chicken wings, or pulled pork — one tablespoon per pound, let it sit for an hour, then grill or smoke low and slow. The honey caramelizes into a sticky bark. Mix into mayo for a chipotle aioli, stir into baked beans, or toss with roasted sweet potatoes. The chipotle has a slow, smoky warmth — not a punch.

Weeknight ideas

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  • Chipotle BBQ Seasoning spice, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration
  • Illustration: Chipotle BBQ Seasoning with the Mezquital Valley of Hidalgo in the 1840s
  • Illustration: Charro Beans, made with Chipotle BBQ Seasoning
  • Illustration: Burnt Ends, made with Chipotle BBQ Seasoning
  • Illustration of Chipotle BBQ Seasoning in The Tea & Spice Shoppe bag and jar, with the Mezquital Valley of Hidalgo in the 1840s
  • Chipotle BBQ Seasoning - The Tea & Spice Shoppe
  • Our Chipotle Barbecue Seasoning is smoky with just the right amount of heat. For this easy homemade barbecue sauce Chipotle Barbecue Seasoning also adds Mexican Oregano, complex Chile Powder and Granulated Honey.

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

  • Salt · Caffeine-free

    Sea Salt

    Sodium chloride

    Seawater, evaporated. It is in twenty-five products here, which understates it — salt is the ingredient that makes every other ingredient taste like itself. Fine sea salt dissolves on contact and is the everyday cooking salt: a teaspoon in a soup pot, half a teaspoon...

    Clean salinity with nothing else in the way

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  • Spice · Caffeine-free

    Paprika

    Capsicum annuum

    Dried sweet red peppers, ground. It is in twenty-eight products here mostly for colour and body — paprika gives a rub or a stew its red without adding heat, and it carries a soft, sweet pepper flavour that fills in the gaps between louder spices....

    Sweet red pepper, no heat, vivid colour; the smoked one adds deep oak smoke

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  • Spice · Caffeine-free

    Onion

    Allium cepa

    Dried onion, in three grinds: granulated blooms in oil, minced rehydrates into pieces you can see, and powder disappears into a dip or a rub. Twenty-seven products carry it. Drying takes 96 per cent of the water out and, with it, the sulfur compounds that...

    Toasty, sweet and savoury; none of raw onion's sharpness

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  • Spice · Caffeine-free

    Garlic

    Allium sativum

    A bulb, dried and broken down to three different coarsenesses, and the single most common ingredient in this catalogue — forty-three products carry it. Granulated is coarse and blooms slowly in hot oil; minced is visible pieces that plump up in a sauce; powder disappears...

    Sweet, toasty and savoury; deeper and rounder than fresh garlic, without the raw bite

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  • Spice · Caffeine-free

    Chipotle

    Capsicum annuum

    A smoke-dried jalapeño, and the name says exactly that — from Nahuatl chīlpoctli, smoked chile. Smoke first, then a slow rounded heat, with a sweet fruitiness underneath. Three products carry it. The reason it exists is practical: a jalapeño is thick-walled and wet, and smoke...

    Smoke first, then a slow rounded heat; sweet and fruity underneath

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  • Sweetener · Caffeine-free

    Honey

    Granulated honey — honey with the moisture taken out, so it becomes completely solid, non-sticky granules that can go into a dry rub. One product carries it. That is a genuinely useful piece of food engineering: honey's sweetness and its faint floral character in a...

    Floral sweetness with a caramel edge; sweeter and rounder than sugar

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What it goes with

Chipotle is a smoke-dried jalapeño — it shares actual smoke compounds with our Lapsang Souchong. Brew a cup alongside smoked ribs or pulled pork for the smokiest pairing in the shop. For something sweeter, our Assam's malty depth matches the honey caramelization.

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