Rosemary Salt

Whether you want to make flavored salt recipes for your kitchen or make them for thoughtful gifting, Rosemary Salt is a popular one. It's a delicious addition to so many dishes!

A well stocked pantry is a key to making cooking quick & easy in my opinion. Pantry staples like plain and flavored oils, vinegars, spices, seasonings and flavored salts are used again and again.

One of my favorite homemade salts to make is this Sriracha Salt, its delicious and makes a fabulous food gift!

Flavored salt, such as this Rosemary Salt recipe, are super simple to make. With just a little time invested and just a few ingredients you can make a number of flavored salts and have them on hand for quite a while.

Ingredients

• Coarse salt (kosher or sea salt)
• Fresh Rosemary
• Optional: Lemon or lime peel

How to make Rosemary Salt

• Remove rosemary from stem and give it a rough chop.
• Combine salt and rosemary in your food processor and give it a good whirl until rosemary is minced and mixture is blended (this will result in a finger grind). For a coarser salt, pule rosemary first then add salt and give it a small pulse.
• If adding lemon or lime peel in, first pulse lemon peel and rosemary then add salt in for a quick pulse.
• Turn mixture out onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and allow it to sit out overnight. OR to speed things up. Preheat your oven to 200. Turn it off and place your baking sheet with salt mixture into oven, close door and allow it to sit there overnight. This is especially efficient if adding fresh lemon peel.

Tips

• If it's a humid or damp day, the oven method works best.
• If you don't have a food processor, you can mince rosemary (and lemon/lime peel if using) and mince it as fine as you can get it.
• Decide how course or fine you want your Rosemary Salt to be. For coarser salt, first place rosemary (and lemon/lime peel strips if using) in your food processor or high powdered blender to get them finely ground. Toss with salt or add salt and give it a quick pulse till combined.
• For finer salt, add all together and pulse till fine.

Variations

• Add in garlic powder or dried garlic for Rosemary garlic salt.
• Add a 1 TBS minced lemon peel for Rosemary lemon salt.
• Add in a small amount of dried truffles and make Truffle Salt or any sort of dried mushrooms, whichever you like best, and make mushroom salt. Rosemary and the dried truffles or dried mushrooms (minced fine or shaved in using a zester) is a wonderful flavor combination.

Storage

• Store in a mason jar(s) or small spice jars.
• Keeps for 4 months or more.

Rosemary Salt Uses

• Rim tequila cocktail glasses with this or Bloody Mary Glasses.
• Use on raw or cooked poultry, beef or pork.
• Mix into softened high quality butter or homemade butter and make Rosemary butter. It's fabulous compound butter on a steak.
• Season any vegetable, pasta, meat or poultry dish with this homemade Rosemary salt, using as you would regular salt.

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