Our Knox Experience gift basket is an excellent gift for barbeque and grill enthusiasts as well as home cooks. Gourmet dry rub seasonings that span a wide range of regional flavors and include 2 salt free blends.

Most people who like to cook these days are familiar with a dry rub thanks to the popularity of shows like Pit Masters. For those who are not familiar a dry rub is a spice blend used for seasoning meat. Typically the spice blends are dry rubbed onto meat to infuse flavor into barbequed meat but today are used as seasonings for just about anything from vegetables to soups and sauces.

Our dry rubs are low in salt and made from the highest quality herbs and spices we can find. Originally created as gifts for family members some years ago their popularity has made them popular within gourmet stores and as gifts to this day. Here at Knox's SPice Company we use our product and written down recipes we like using the dry rubs in our gift baskets. All gift baskets come with a booklet of recipes to show you ways to use our seasonings beyond the directions on the label so you can get the most from your purchase.

The Knox Experience dry rub gift basket has our favorite rubs. Below you will find descriptions of each and some recipes for using them. These same recipes plus others come with the gift basket.

Salt free Sabroso dry rub seasoning

Created for our love of Mexican food. This distinctly Mexican seasoning is excellent on pork and chicken. Sabroso means tasty and indeed it is. This dry rub seasoning can be used to season rice as well as pork chops and you can control the salt as we have not added any, it is salt free.

Sabroso Rice

• 3 Cups of Chicken Stock or Water
• 1/2 Teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 Cups White Rice
• 2 Tablespoon chopped Onion
• 2 Tablespoons chopped Red Bell Pepper
• 2 Teaspoons Sabroso seasoning

Bring chicken stock to a boil, add salt, stir to dissolve. Add remaining ingredients and boil for 5 minutes. Turn off and cover for 10 - 15 minutes. Fluff before serving. Excellent side, great in wraps!!

Salt free Barabicu (Bara-bee-q) dry rub seasoning

Our Caribbean blend is a savory blend of tropic herbs and spices for a unique flavor of the region. Perfect for grilled or slow cooked pork and chicken. The hints of citrus work well with carrots, sweet potato, squash and even honey for glazed vegetables.

Barabicu Honey Glazed Carrots

• 7 or 8 large carrots
• 1 Tablespoon Knox’s Salt Free Barabicu seasoning
• 2 Tablespoons Butter
• 2 Tablespoons Honey
• Fat pinch Salt

Slice carrots and boil until tender. Drain. Melt the butter and add the remaining ingredients. Pour over carrots and toss to coat. Serve warm. Guests will want this recipe, they always do.

Chipotle BBQ dry rub - our original rub

Our Chipotle BBQ is where it all began. Original recipe by Bryan and Tim KNox created to season pork butt and roasts. Smoky with a slight spicy bite perfect for barbeque and grilling. Made with 16 quality including chipotle peppers, guajillo peppers. garlic, onion, black pepper to name a few. SInce the introduction of our Chipotle BBQ dry rub its use has certainly expanded. From mashed potatoes to popcorn to hamburgers. Great southwestern flavor in a jar. This dry rub makes great bbq easy.

Chipotle Chicken Yogurt Marinade

• 1/2 Tablespoon Knox's Chipotle BBQ dry rub
• 1 Cup plain yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon lemon or lime juice

Mix Knox’s Chipotle BBQ dry rub spice blend, yogurt and citrus. Pour over chicken or place in zip lock bag with chicken and let marinade for at least 2 hours.

You could add 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes to heat it up a bit. This marinade is also excellent on chicken or lamb kabobs.

Jamaican Jerk rub

Fragrant and savory, the flavor of the islands. Our recipe comes from Jamaica. We decided that since everybody likes Jerk dry rub, but different amounts of heat, we would tame it down. The complex flavor of Jamaican jerk dry rub is excellent on all thing grilled from fish to chicken to vegetables. To be used sparingly on grilled foods with more delicate flavors such as shrimp or fish.

Jerked Sweet Potatoes

• Sweet Potatoes
• Olive Oil or Butter
• Knox’s Jamaican Jerk dry rub spice blend
• Brown Sugar

Peel and cut sweet potatoes into one inch slices. Brush with oil or butter. Mix equal parts Knox’s Jamaican Jerk Dry Rub spice blend and sprinkle on both sides of slices sweet potato. Bake at 350 degrees or grill until soft.
Try acorn and butternut squash!

Cracked Pepper dry rub

Do you like a cracked pepper crust on beef? Our Cracked Pepper dry rub was made for it. Chunky cracked black pepper, toasted garlic, onion, oregano and others blended to perfection for beef. Also an excellent addition to mashed potatoes or made into a cracked pepper dressing for salad (below).

Cracked Pepper Salad Dressing

• 1/3 Cup Mayonnaise
• 1/3 Cup sour cream or yogurt
• 1/2 Tablespoon or more Knox’s Cracked Pepper dry rub
• 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice or buttermilk

Mix together in a bowl and chill for a couple hours or overnight.
Mix again before serving. Also makes a great dip for vegetables or a spread for a sandwich.

Yummy Chicken dry rub

We named it Yummy Chicken because it is yummy on chicken. Great on all poultry. Turkey is a favorite around the holidays and made extra yummy when well rubbed inside and out with our Yummy Chicken dry rub. We would have named it Yummy Poultry but we thought it sounded better as Yummy Chicken. Also makes tasty dips, salad dressings and seasoning for oven baked potato wedges.

Yummy Oven Baked Potato Wedges

• 3 Large Potatoes
• Knox's Yummy Chicken dry rub spice blend
• Olive oil

Cut each potatoes into 6 long wedges. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on Knox’s Yummy Chicken dry rub spice blend. Spread out wedges on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for about 25 minutes. Turn wedges and bake another 20 minutes until they begin to brown and are crispy on the outside and soft inside.