This is my favorite new recipe, simply blending together dried herbs and sea salt. It's amazingly good and infinitely variable. It's also a delicious way to add more dried nettles to your diet, which are mild tasting and incredibly nutrient rich.
I got the idea from a recipe in the Mountain Rose Herbs catalog, but have made it my own. I always have different herbs on hand- and never follow a recipe to the letter if I can help it. Not having any dried rosemary the first time I made this, I was worried mine wouldn't turn out that great because I used such different flavors, but it was amazing. I'll include both the original recipe, which sounds fantastic, and my first variation, which was very ad hoc and turned out great.
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| This is a perfect way to use your home-dried herbs! Shown here are golden oregano, parsley, and rosemary, all from my summer garden. |
2 parts rosemary leaf
1 part nettle leaf
1 part dandelion leaf
1 part lemon thyme leaf
coarse sea salt
In a coffee grinder, finely powder each herb. Mix the blended herbs together in one container, and measure the total volume. Add half that volume of salt. Return to the grinder and pulse together to blend.
What I did:
2 parts sage
2 parts nettle leaf
1 part oregano
1 part parsley
1 part thyme
coarse sea salt
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| Don't worry if it looks a bit coarse after the first grind. When the herbs are ground a second time, with the salt, they'll become fine powder. |
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| I made specific flavors that I thought people would like
(parsley & thyme for my stepmom, rosemary sage for my brother) and
packed them in pretty jars, to go along with Christmas presents this
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Write commentsYou can make delicious sugars as well. Lavendar, pineapple weed and vanilla are ones I use a lot.
ReplyGreat idea! We have loads of fresh herbs and dry some each year but I've never thought to combine them with salt! Would be great on popcorn, kale chips or zucchini chips.
ReplyThis is great. Do you dry your herbs in a dehydrator or the oven? Herbs seem to be the only thing that grows well in my garden, well apart from parsley, basil and coriander which get eaten by slugs and snails in the dead of night.
ReplyI use a food dehydrator for drying in quantity. I used to hang herbs around my house, but it takes such a long time for them to dry thoroughly that way, and they can get a bit dusty while hanging about. The dehydrator is quick, and I can be more sure of them being dried all the way through, so they won't rot in storage.
ReplyReally great use of the end of the season extras from the garden!
ReplyMichelle