How To Make Your Own Delicious Flavoured Salts

Elevate salt to a whole new level with produce from your garden and create homemade flavoured salts.

Flavoured salts can brighten up a meal ten-fold, and when you make it yourself you can adapt, tweak and discover amazing flavour combinations. 

In this post I have made a Chili, Lime and Garlic Salt, a 'Lemon Pepper' Salt made with lemon and lemon balm, plus an 'Everything' Herb Salt.

Dehydrated Ingredients

I dehydrated most of ingredients needed for the salts. This can be easily done in a dehydrator or an oven. I sliced up lots of fresh garlic, peeled slivers of lemon and lime zest, and collected a selection of all the herbs I have growing.

The lemon and lime peel and the garlic take the longest to dry, though time depends on how thinly they are sliced. I had my herbs dried in about an hour and the fruit peel and garlic took about 3, all at about 65-70°C.

The chilli I used was from last year so this had naturally dried already. Obviously all the ingredients I just listed can be purchased already dried, but then this wouldn't be a real homemade gift now would it!

Then they're just blitzed up with some rock salt! 

Salt Flavours

Chilli, Garlic and Lime Salt
225g Rock Salt (about ¾ cup)
Sliced and dried peel of 2-3 limes
4 cloves garlic sliced and dried
1-2 dried Chillis

'Lemon Pepper' Salt
225g Rock Salt (about ¾ cup)
1 cup lemon balm leaves, dehydrated
Sliced and dried peel of 2 lemons
2 tablespoons cracked black pepper

'Everything Herb' Salt
225g Rock Salt (about ¾ cup)
2 cups mixed herbs, dried (thyme, marjoram, oregano, basil, mint, sage, rosemary, parsley...)
4 cloves garlic sliced and dried

Blitz all the ingredients together for a couple of minutes. If you like a finer flavoured salt blitz it for longer then run it through a sieve.

Have you made these salts? Tag me and let me know! @home_grown_happinessnz

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