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What’s cooking today: Rosemary salt

What’s cooking today: Rosemary salt
Rosemary salt. (Photo: Louis Pieterse)

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

This recipe accompanies this 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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