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Homemade Fire Salt Recipe, SHown in a glass jar on a wood cutting board with dried peppers

Fire Salt

Course: DIY, Food Gift
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Fire Salt, fire salt recipe, homemade fire salt
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 6 hours
Servings: 36 servings
Calories: 5kcal
Author: Colleen Kennedy
Homemade Fire Salt Recipe is not only a great homemade salt recipe, its a fantastic seasoning. SO many variations on the flavor and it makes a fabulous inexpensive food gift!
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Equipment

  • dehydrator or oven

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Fresh peppers - a blend of spicy and tame peppers jalapeno, poblano, shishito, cayenne, birds eye, bell, banana etc. For extreme heat, ghost pepper, habanero etc. Note: One pound would be after cutting the peppers into slices.
  • 1 onion, sliced thin I like using a sweet (Vidalia) onion
  • ½ cup salt more or less. Use kosher salt, table salt or your personal favorite type of salt

Instructions

  • Place pepper rings and onion rings on your dehydrator racks, don't crowd them If any tiny pieces want to fall through your racks, like an area with parchment paper for those.
  • Dehydrate at 140 degrees till crisp. Time will vary based off type of dehydrator, location, weather, vegetables used, thickness etc. Could take 4-24 hours depending.
  • Alternately, dehydrate in an oven on a rack placed over a baking sheet or on a parchment paper lined baking sheet at 200 degrees for 4-12 hours. If vegetables are directly on a baking sheet, move them around every 2 hours.
  • Place dried peppers and onions in your blender and blend till dust. Add in an equal amount of salt (or less salt if watching salt) blend again. Taste and adjust if necessary. Store in a sealed jar.
  • Optional, add in ¼ as much garlic powder as you have ground peppers/onions as well as other seasonings you may have on hand to make your own special seasoning.

Notes

There is no way to actually calculate this salt as far as calories go, it will depend on what peppers and ingredients are used as well as volume of salt and any other add-ins. As well as how much is used of it at a time.
If you don't feel like dehydrating an onion, just purely make this peppers and salt OR add in onion powder. This is such a FLEXIBLE recipe :)
The spiciness depends on the peppers used and the salt ratio.

Nutrition

Serving: 32servings | Calories: 5kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 0.05g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.004g | Sodium: 1572mg | Potassium: 36mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 136IU | Vitamin C: 15mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.1mg