The Salt-Free Kirkland Seasoning Costco Shoppers Add To Almost Everything

Whether you're avoiding salt out of strict medical necessity, dietary preference, or even just social media influence, cooking and eating without it can pose quite a challenge. Salt is the essential household seasoning that starts your mirepoix's veggie trio, gives your chicken a head start toward optimal moisture, and finishes all manner of dishes. Cooking without salt is, of course, possible — and Costco happens to have the perfect product for the occasion.

Fans of the big box warehouse store have plenty of ideas for how you can use its Kirkland Signature Organic No Salt Seasoning in your own kitchen. Authors in Reddit's ever-active Costco sub have plenty to say about the stuff. "What a cool item for people who are on a low sodium diet," one remarked. Others liken Kirkland's no salt seasoning to Dash (formerly Mrs. Dash), which is neutrally herbaceous with low garlic notes. Even more shared the sundry ways they use the salt-free seasoning, including shaken into chicken noodle or French onion soups, tapped into olive oil and balsamic vinegar for dipping baguette medallions, and stirred into dips. They've also had success using it to flavor the very poultry you might have been leaning on salt for since you first learned how to roast a bird. It might just have a broad enough appeal to earn a spot in your own home.

The Kirkland Signature Organic No Salt Seasoning mixes a lot of ingredients together in one bottle, including onion, garlic, black pepper, red bell pepper, orange and lemon peels, parsley, bay leaves, thyme, basil, oregano, cumin, and rosemary. Some buyers have gone so far as to assert on Costco's website that this is the best salt-free seasoning they've sampled. "This no-salt seasoning mix won my family," one shopper wrote. "It's the right amount of everything to add a bit of flavor to our meals." 

Kirkland's no-salt seasoning is most suitable for more forgiving recipes that don't call for specifics, such as the product page-suggested steaks, burgers, ribs, chicken, and turkey. Dishes that already have dedicated flavor paths, such as mapo tofu with its Sichuan peppercorns or an easy weeknight bolognese with Italian seasoning, should stick to those flavors. Kirkland's no-salt seasoning is, however, a great addition to many back-of-the-envelope preparations that need a little something extra to taste more intentional on the plate. Shaken over basic roasted potatoes or, yes, that oft-cited chicken, it might even surpass the salt and pepper you once considered compulsory.