When it comes to cooking, you can have triumphs from a complicated ingredient-laden recipe or from something so incredibly simple. This Homemade Sriracha Salt is one of those triumphs!
The holiday season has arrived and many of us are making lists upon lists of who to buy for, what to buy, what we have, what we'll cook etc.
One way I like to slow it all down is by making homemade food gifts for the people in my life. It's personal, it means just a little more in my opinion and often it's memorable. Plus, I always get the kids involved, which I love!
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Why you'll love this easy food gift recipe
- Making Homemade Flavored Salts for gifting is easy and affordable.
- It's much less expensive to make this vs buy iy at a specialty shop.
- Package it simply in a mason jar or cute bag. Or go a little bigger and pack it into a salt crock to gift as well.
- This Sriracha Salt is great on potatoes, meats, veggies and watermelon too! It lends the perfect amount of spiciness to anything. It's so stinking good!
I love Sriracha, and I love salt. I know I shouldn't love salt, however I do! And I literally crave it. My body must need it or something. I'll pop in the kitchen some days and pop a pinch or two in my mouth and Sriracha Salt is a favorite!
For years I had been buying it when I visited Chelsea Market in NYC, then I thought, Colleen! Make it! So I did and its wonderful!
Making Homemade Sriracha Salt is so easy too! All you need are (yup you guessed it!!) kosher or sea salt and Sriracha salt. After the salt has dried, pack it in a mason jar or a salt cellar and it becomes a fantastic holiday or hostess gift! If you like hot salt, you'll love this recipe!
Ingredients
- Kosher salt
- Sriracha
You may also enjoy making Bourbon Cherry Pie (or Cheesecake) Cherries, Homemade Chocolate Moonshine (another fantastic food gift idea), Quick Jalapeno Relish or Eggnog Biscotti for food gifts as well!
I hope you make this Homemade Sriracha Salt, gift this, enjoy this yourself and it's ok if like me, when you pass it by...You take a pinch or two!!
Tips making homemade flavored salts
- Mix firmly and quickly in a bowl
- Quickly turn out on a parchment paper lined baking sheet
- Stir halfway through baking
- Allow it to sit in oven overnight with door ajar or in the open air before packaging up
- If you wish your salt to be finer, give it a quick pulse in a food processor
- Package up in cute salt crocks or mason jars (some ideas here)
- If you are experimenting with flavors, the wetter or thinner the wet ingredient is, the less you would add.
Variations Homemade Spicy Salt
Try this with:
- Tabasco
- Cholula
- BBQ
- Worcestershire (only 1 TBS of that)
- Or whatever idea you may have
Recipe originally posted in 2017, updates in December, 2023 with additional text.
Enjoy experimenting with various flavors! XO - Colleen
Food Gift Ideas You Will Love
DIY Homemade Sriracha Salt
Ingredients
- 1 ½ heaping cups of Kosher or coarse sea salt
- ¼ cup Sriracha
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, combine salt and Sriracha, quickly mix until fully combined.
- Scrape it out onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Using a spoon, push the mixture all around the baking sheet, spreading it all out.
- Pop baking sheet into the oven and immediately lower heat to 200 degrees.
- Set timer for 10 minutes.
- Halfway through, quickly remove baking sheet and stir salt around again.
- Place in oven. Once the timer goes off, turn off the oven (don't open the door) and leave the salt in the oven overnight.
- In the morning (or 8 hours later) dump salt into your food processor and give it a few pulses to break up any clumps.
- Package for a gift or store in a salt cellar or mason jar until ready to use. Enjoy!!
Patty @ Spoonabilities says
This looks wonderful! And what a special gift this would make also!
Lisa Huff says
Was just about to buy something similar at the grocery store for a crazy amount of money! Perfect timing!
Colleen says
Woot! Just saved you 10 bucks! Lol!
Amy says
This is genius! Mine is in the oven ready to be processed in the AM - can't wait tottery this!
Cindy Rodriguez says
I've never even considered that you can flavor salt- what a great idea! I'm going to have to try this and maybe add it to some of my baking experiments!
Luci's Morsels says
This recipe is genius! I can think of so many uses for this!
Tony says
Would this work well with large-grain salts, or would kosher or table salt work the best? I have a delicious smoked salt (smoky sriracha salt sounds awesome), but the grains range from extremely small to quite large (some of the bigger grains are 0.5-1cm... huge!), and I also have Himalayan pink salt, which has grains that are roughly twice the size of standard kosher salt grains. I don't have a food processor or a blender; a logical step could be to process the large grains with a few quick pulses to get a more uniform grain size, but this isn't an option. That being the case, would you recommend a smaller-grain salt, or would these larger-grains work just as well? I want to make a whole bunch for myself and my family members as stocking stuffers, but I don't want to waste a bunch of expensive salt (both smoked salt and Himalayan salt were quite pricy) and sriracha for something that ultimately goes straight into the bin. Thanks in advance for any responses.
Colleen says
Hi Tony, I only make this with Kosher since its inexpensive...However, using a smoked salt sounds amazing. WHy not test it in very small amounts say just 2 TBS with the variety of salts you have in mind? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the results.
Tony says
I realize this response comes almost a year after your comment, but I hope you receive it anyway. Sriracha is a hot chili sauce made with red peppers, garlic, sugar, salt, and vinegar. It has become extremely popular, and as I refer to it, it has become "the catsup of hot sauces" due to its ubiquity. It should be available at most grocers such as Walmart, Hy-Vee, Dillons/Kroger/Gerbes, and I'd say it definitely would be found at your local Asian markets if applicable. If you don't have any way to get it locally, it can be ordered from Amazon at this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00838FWPO . Note that ordering from Amazon requires either a 3-pack or a 6-pack to be purchased, so if you're trying it for the first time and unsure if you'll enjoy it, buying from a grocer would be your best option if at all possible. Or you could buy from Amazon and give the extra bottles as gifts if you don't like it... but if you like spicy things (it's really not that spicy... even Tabasco is hotter than sriracha) that are delicious, I think you'll enjoy it.
Michelle says
Mine is in the oven now and can't wait to try but it's seriously stinking out my flat, the WHOLE flat, dreading the wife coming home from work...
Colleen says
Hah! Well nothing is worse than reducing balsamic! Hope you love the end result as much as we do!
jen says
Is there a shelf life to this? How fast does it need to be used or being its baked it lasts forever? lol
Colleen says
I have had it up to a year with no issues. If it somehow gets damp or clumped depending on where you stored it, just pop it in your food processor or blender and give it a whirl.
Olen Soifer says
Good idea, but I can save you some time: While I love Sriracha sauce, it is not all that complicated of a product. And, you can use dried versions of the components to simply mix with salt, without having to do thru the baking/drying process. Look at the bottle's ingredients: Chili peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Garlic. Start with non-iodized salt, kosher or pickling salt, etc. Add cayenne or ground red pepper, sugar, garlic powder & a sour component such as citric acid, if you have it, or some lemon pepper. I specifically did not give quantities. Your palate will vary from mine Just start with a half cup of salt, and add each ingredient "to taste", a half tsp at a time (recording how much of each, of course) until it is as hot, sweet, garlicky and sour as you like.
Colleen says
Thanks for the variation!
Maria says
Please, the temperature of the oven is 250 C or 250F?
Thank you
Colleen says
Fahrenheit.
Freda says
What do you use it on?
Colleen says
Anything your use salt on, just gives a delicious hint of sriracha/heat/flavor.
Elanna says
worked great! I added some fancy chili flakes in there too and it looks/smells and tastes fantastic! thanks for the recipe, I never would have thought of this!
Colleen says
Awesome!! It's so easy to customize 🙂