Homemade Flavoured Salts, use them, and jack up the Oomph factor of your food.

Name: Homemade Flavored Salts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 70 min
Ingredients: 2 tbsps jeera/cumin seeds (toasted and cooled); 1 tbsp salt; 2 tbsp garlic powder; 1 tbsp salt; 2 tbsp sweet paprika powder; 1 tbsp salt; 4 potatoes; 1 sweet potato; Butter or olive oil for brushing

These Homemade Flavoured Salts are simple to make at home and highly customisable.

Flavoured Salts can be used for gifting. Just get beautiful containers and add these salts to them. I am sure your friends will appreciate them more.

Flavoured Salts

I have made 3 flavours garlic salt, cumin salt and sweet paprika salt since I am making it the first time. But seeing how these salts are accepted I will try my hand at rosemary garlic salt, orange salt and vanilla salt.

These salts I have used on potatoes you can use it on asparagus, cauliflower, Corn cobs, mushrooms, sweet potato … the list is endless. Will love to try it on ridge gourd and pumpkin too.

Flavoured Salts Roasted PotatoNow you will be wondering just why I am talking about these flavoured salts. Have I lost it?

No, of course not, today is Monday and MondayBlogHop day and our theme is #192 One spice ingredient dishes suggested by Sasmita. Sasmita is an amazing cook her pictures are amazing. One of her recent post Carrot Mini Cresent Rolls are so cute. Just right in a party, for kids tiffin box or even with your tea.

Simple flavours of cumin and salt take foods to a newer level

Cumin Flavoured Salt

Now, I am an Indian and I love my spices getting down to 1 spice is very difficult. I mean look at this list from Wikipedia. Most ingredients I use right from mustard, jeera/cumin what I consider spices like chillies, and masala is listed out here.

This is the challenge I have to make a list of 1 spice ingredients as even jeera rice that I have has a minimum of 2 spices. But then there is aadrak chai or ginger tea, elachi chai or green cardamon tea, lemongrass tea. Rest I cannot think of right now.

Jeera pani or Jeera Water is highly recommended for an upset stomach. You just boil jeera/cumin and water cool and drink.

These days I have been recommended a glass of water in which dhania or coriander seeds are soaked overnight. This water I drink first thing in the morning. This helps in flushing the kidneys and all the salts once flushed out lowers your Blood pressure.

These too will fit in this theme of 1 spice foods.

Homemade Flavored Salts

But I choose to make these flavoured salts, wrong time for me but then I love the way the family has enjoyed these potatoes. I had one lone sweet potato I have used it too. My pictures are not too good but my food has disappeared so will remake and update the pictures yet again.

Also, next time I will use rock salt in place of regular salt.

Homemade Flavored Salts

Sweet Paprika Salt, garlic salt and cumin salt

Homemade Flavored Salts

Flavored Salts are customisable, make the assorted flavours your family likes and sit back and enjoy the compliments that come your way.

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Course: Accompaniments, Condiments

Cuisine: World

Keyword: 1 spice ingredient, Condiment, cumin salt, flavored salts, flavoured salt, garlic salt, sweet paprika salt

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings: bowl

Author: Archana

Ingredients

For Cumin Salt:

2 tbsps jeera/cumin seeds toasted and cooled
1 tbsp salt

For Garlic salt:

2 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp salt

For Sweet Paprika Salt:

2 tbsp sweet paprika powder
1 tbsp salt

For the bake:

4 potatoes
1 sweet potato
Butter or olive oil for brushing

Instructions

To make Cumin Salt:

In the mortar add the cumin grind cumin seeds with the pestle crush them.
When the jeera/cumin is coarsely ground add the salt and grind once again till you get a mixture of your liking. I have left it a bit coarse.
Transfer to a small bowl.

To make Garlic Salt:

In the mortar add the garlic powder and salt. Mix well with the pestle. Transfer to a small bowl.

To make Sweet Paprika Salt:

In the mortar add the sweet paprika powder and salt. Mix well with the pestle. Transfer to a small bowl.

To make Flavored Salt Potatoes:

Preheat oven to 200°C.
Grease a baking tray lightly with oil.
Cut the potatoes in half horizontally.
With a sharp knife cut slits in the potato. Take care and do not go right down into the potato. Cut as close as possible.
Arrange the potato the intact portion down on the tray. Sprinkle the salt mixture.
Brush with half the butter.
Bake for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes carefully turn the potatoes. (take care they will be hot)
Brush with the remaining butter.
Sprinkle the flavoured salt and bake for a further 30 minutes or until crisp.
Serve hot.

Notes

In place of potatoes use cauliflower, sweet potato.
You can use boiled corn to spread the cumin salt and butter.

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Comments

The girl next door says

April 22, 2019 at 11:03 pm

Flavoured salts are a lovely way to add oomph to food. Great recipes, so simple and doable. 🙂

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  April 23, 2019 at 10:06 am
  
  Thanks, Priya.
  
Poonam Bachhav says

April 23, 2019 at 5:40 pm

Totally in love with this share di ! Flavored salts sounds innovative and the recipe is so simple.

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  April 26, 2019 at 1:23 pm
  
  Thanks, Poonam.
  
Kalyani says

April 24, 2019 at 1:42 pm

super stuff, ARch! simple, handy and irresistible with those baked potatoes ! simply yummmmm !

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  April 26, 2019 at 1:23 pm
  
  Thanks, Kal.
  
Sujata Roy says

April 25, 2019 at 8:27 am

Three types of flavoured salt sounds great. Perfect to sprinkle on fruits, salad or any bland food. Lovely share.

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  April 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm
  
  Thanks, Sujata.
  
Swati says

April 26, 2019 at 12:46 am

Archana, This is such a wonderful idea.. these salts can be used in salads, raitas and other snacks and starters.. and so easy to prepare..Lovey share..

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  April 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm
  
  Thanks, Swati.
  
Mayuri Patel says

April 30, 2019 at 4:09 pm

As soon as I saw your post on FB, I actually slapped my forehead thinking ‘why why do I look for flavored salt on the shelves when its so easy to make them at home.’ Good post and a reminder that bloggers should not ignore simple and yet very flavorful recipes.

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  May 01, 2019 at 3:36 pm
  
  Thanks, Mayuri yes I do agree we overlook the simpler food.
  
Preethi's Cuisine says

May 01, 2019 at 9:59 am

Fantastic idea of making flavored salts at home Archana. Adding them to baking potatoes sounds interesting.

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  May 01, 2019 at 3:34 pm
  
  Thanks.
  
sasmita says

May 19, 2019 at 10:57 pm

This flavored salt sounds wonderful !! love to make some baked potatoes sprinkled with these

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  May 20, 2019 at 7:03 pm
  
  Thanks.
  
Renu says

June 26, 2019 at 2:29 pm

Such a easy peasy way to make flavoured salts. Wonder why we buy them. Thanks for this , goes well in a lot of dishes.

- ArchanaPotdar says
  
  June 26, 2019 at 9:47 pm
  
  :D. thanks dear.

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Homemade Flavoured Salts, use them, and jack up the Oomph factor of your food.

These Homemade Flavoured Salts are simple to make at home and highly customisable.

Flavoured Salts can be used for gifting. Just get beautiful containers and add these salts to them. I am sure your friends will appreciate them more.

Homemade Flavored Salts

Ingredients

For Cumin Salt:

For Garlic salt:

For Sweet Paprika Salt:

For the bake:

Instructions

To make Cumin Salt:

To make Garlic Salt:

To make Sweet Paprika Salt:

To make Flavored Salt Potatoes:

Notes

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