Lemon salt gives your dishes a particularly aromatic note. We’ll show you how easy it is to make your own.
Homemade lemon salt brings a refreshing and fruity change to your dishes. It goes particularly well with vegetable pans, salads or salad dressings and dips. We recommend choosing organic ingredients. This is how you avoid chemical-synthetic pesticides.
Lemon salt: A recipe to make yourself
This recipe gives you a supply of lemon salt that is sufficient for many dishes. For example, you can put the lemon salt in a large salt shaker or put it in a small mason jar.
Ingredients:
200g salt
1 organic lemon
Directions:
Wash the lemon with hot water and then dry it with a kitchen towel.
Grate the lemon zest with a grater.
Juice the lemon with a lemon squeezer. Pour the juice through a fine mesh strainer to remove the pulp. You only need the juice.
Mix the salt with the zest and the lemon juice.
Spread the lemon salt on a baking tray and put it in the oven at 100 degrees for 20 minutes. This step is important so that your lemon salt loses water and has a long shelf life.
Allow the lemon salt to cool completely and then pour it into a glass container.
Tips for your homemade lemon salt
These tips will make your lemon salt even more aromatic:
You can mix your lemon salt with herbs of your choice. Add the fresh and chopped herbs in the fourth step. You can add already dried herbs after the salt has come out of the oven and cooled down. For example, rosemary can complement lemon salt wonderfully.
When grating the lemon zest, make sure that you do not rub off any or only a little of the white skin. This is just below the yellow peel and would add a bitter note to your lemon salt.
Of course, the salt can also be made with other citrus fruits. You can also use an orange or lime in place of the lemon.
Choose a salt of your choice. For example, you can use fine-grain sea salt or coarse-grain rock salt. The coarse-grained lemon salt is suitable for filling a salt mill with it. You may also want to leave the coarse-grained salt in the oven a few minutes longer so that your lemon salt is really dry.
Incidentally, homemade lemon salt with its refreshing yellowish color is a wonderful gift idea. You can still decorate the glass and you already have a homemade souvenir.
