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title: "What’s cooking today: Rosemary salt"
description: "Need salt be merely salt? We can take our salt, whether fine or coarse or both, and match it with our favourite aromatics."
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author: "Tony Jackman"
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published: "2021-05-07T09:20:09"
updated: "2021-05-07T09:19:19"
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# What’s cooking today: Rosemary salt

> Need salt be merely salt? We can take our salt, whether fine or coarse or both, and match it with our favourite aromatics.

By Tony Jackman · Published 7 May 2021, 11:20 SAST · Updated 7 May 2021, 11:19 SAST

## Content

*This recipe accompanies [this](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-07-salt-aromatics-umami/)**column**.*

**Ingredients**

1 cup/ 225 g coarse salt

1 cup/ 225 g rosemary needles

1 cup/ 225 g fine salt

**Method**

Put the coarse salt and the rosemary needles in a blender or grinder and blitz until fairly fine.

Spread it out on a baking tray, put it in a warm place and leave for a few hours to dry out. Scrape it around with a spatula now and then to even out the drying.

Pour it into a suitable bowl and stir in the fine salt. Store in an airtight jar and use as you like, on steak, chops or chicken for the braai, to season a savoury sauce or soup, or sprinkle a little on your fried eggs, or use it to give a lift to a fillet of fish you’re grilling. **DM/TGIFood**

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