Essential Mushroom Powder

This mushroom powder seasoning is our secret to making almost any savory dish taste better. We stir it into soups, stews, beans, taco fillings, and more!

We use mushroom powder all the time. A jar sits next to the salt and pepper in our kitchen. It’s essential. We first tried it after visiting Seattle’s World Spice Merchants. They sell jarred mushroom powder, and it blew us away. The moment we tried it, we knew we needed to figure out how to make it at home. That was years ago, and we’ve been making it for ourselves ever since.

We’ve shared our love for umami packed mushroom powder before and use it in the following recipes: homemade taco seasoning, mushroom stuffing, spaghetti and meat sauce, vegan meatballs, and gravy.

How to Make Homemade Mushroom Powder

Mushroom powder takes a dish that tastes good and makes it taste excellent! The mushroom powder adds a rich, savory umami punch to anything you sprinkle it on. It’s magic. You can buy mushroom powder blends (although it depends on what stores you have available in your area). We’ve even seen a jar sold at Trader Joe’s.

Even though it’s a bit more available today than when we first tried it years ago, we still prefer to make it ourselves. Most of the store-bought options include salt in their blend. We aren’t against salt by any means, but we like to add it separately. I also find that homemade mushroom powder is more flavorful.

If you have a food processor or blender, our homemade mushroom powder is so easy to make.

The base is dried mushrooms, which we have seen in most larger or specialty grocery stores. You can use one or more varieties. We love using porcini mushrooms, which are aromatic and flavorful.

There’s only one step when making your mushroom powder: Place dried mushrooms into a food processor or blender and turn it on. When the dried mushrooms turn into a fine powder, it’s ready.

If you want to get fancy, you can add a few more spices to the mix, but that’s entirely up to you. We’ve shared a few suggestions in the recipe below.

Ways to Use Mushroom Powder

Homemade mushroom powder is a home cook’s secret ingredient for making savory dishes taste amazing. When you’ve got your very own jar of mushroom powder, use it on the following:

• Make beef taste more beefy. Use this seasoning for grilled steak, hamburgers, and beef stew.
• Add flavor to ground meat. I love it with these ground pork tacos and often add some to ground chicken when making lettuce wraps.
• Stir it into soups like chicken noodle soup, potato leek soup, and this homemade vegetable soup.
• It does wonders with tomato-based dishes like veggie pasta, spaghetti and meat sauce, red pasta sauce, and chili.
• Sprinkle over scrambled eggs or add to your next frittata.
• Stir into stir fries and curries.
• Make meatloaf taste better. We use fresh mushrooms in this turkey meatloaf and classic meatloaf. Adding mushroom powder would make them even better.
• Make meatballs taste better. Add a teaspoon to homemade meatballs or these big Italian meatballs.
• Toss with vegetables before roasting or sautéing. It’s amazing with sautéed cabbage.

Basically, add mushroom powder to anything that needs a boost of savory flavor! And that’s it, our essential mushroom powder. We use it every day and hope that we’ve inspired you to do the same.